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ANOTHER CARLY BLOOPER.
You almost have to feel bad for former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who clearly believes she's working for a socially moderate presidential candidate when in actuality, she is, er, working for John McCain. Last week Fiorina said birth control pills should be covered by health insurers -- McCain disagrees. Now, as HuffPo reports, Fiorina is talking about "fully funding" No Child Left Behind, another policy McCain has voted against again and again.
I'll have analysis on McCain's education platform tomorrow morning. As I wrote earlier, he's scheduled to reveal his edu plans tonight -- finally -- in a speech to the NAACP.
--Dana Goldstein
COMMENTS (3)
Why is anyone listening to anything Fiorina says? She was on the gasbag show Sunday telling everyone that surrogates did NOT speak for McCain, only he spoke for himself. So she should just STFU!
Posted by: CParis | July 14, 2008 1:36 PM
Ms. Fiorina is best-known for wrecking HP, and gutting its formerly highly humane policies ("the HP way") in favor of the worst kind of employee-abusing uber-capitalism, and doing a giant failed merger that essentially left HP plus Compaq at about the size and value of the former HP. She didn't manage to wreck HP's printer business, which is the only reason HP is still a reasonably successful company. But it's a much worse place to work for than it used to be.
I suspect that, like Margaret Thatcher, she had something to prove, so she demonstrated to the board of directors that she lacked any humanistic attribute traditionally associated with women.
Posted by: Joe Buck | July 15, 2008 12:00 AM
In other words, her linguistic "reproductive health" reflex is a residual narcissistic fixation?
Posted by: Anonymous | July 15, 2008 8:44 AM