Jason Linkins on HuffPo: McCain Supporter Fiorina Deserves The Same Scrutiny As Obama Veep Vetter

[ErinBerin84]

Haha, Jason Linkins always makes me crack up:

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Barack Obama is under fire this week for having named former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson to his vice-presidential vetting team, a position for which Johnson is receiving no compensation and a role that he has traditionally played for other Democratic candidates, including John Kerry. But, as the Washington Post headlines say, "questions were raised!" Perhaps even by the RNC! And so, we're enduring a heaping plate of coverage over this issue, leading up to Johnson stepping down from this role with the Obama campaign.

Fair enough. As the Post's Dan Balz points out, "Johnson is drawing fire over his jumbo home loans from Countrywide Financial, a major actor in the subprime mortgage mess, that may have been below market rates," and has also "drawn criticism in the past for his role in generous compensation packages to executives of companies on whose boards he served."

So tsk-tsks all around and a good golly gotcha for the ravenous press! But, let me tell you, if the media liked feasting on Johnson in this way, they are going to really get a good leg tingle going once they start applying the same open-segment scrutiny to McCain's CEO-run-amok, Carly Fiorina. Surely, in the interest of "fairness and balance," this will happen"


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-supporter-fiorina_n_106561.html


"Fiorina is serving the McCain campaign as their "point person on business and economic affairs," as well as serving in the larger capacity as the Republican National Committee's "Chair of Victory." Which just sounds great! Because, really, who doesn't love Victory? Well, sadly, if Fiorina is the person in charge of spreading the Victory around, it's not likely that every American will be cut in on the dispensation. You see, Fiorina - perhaps sensing that there is some flexibility in the Bush administration's post-9/11 admonition that you are either "with" America or you are "against" America - is actually pretty hostile to the cause of hard-working Americans, historically preferring to feather her own nest by seeking cheaper labor far from these shores."

Article contains Fiorina's quote from In 2004 press conference for the Computer ystems Policy Project - "a group of eight chief executives from the nation's top information technology firms and clips of a May appearance on the This Week With George Stephanopoulos. God, there are so many people on McCain's campaign to tear apart. Too bad they are on the same side as the MSM.


"So, who emerges the Victor in Fiorina's Victory? Fiorina's money, that's who! And really, its hard to blame her, seeing as how her own career as a CEO was a little less than "victorious." See, Fiorina is probably best known for her time at Hewlett-Packard, where she pursued corporate leakers with a paranoid flair rarely seen outside the Bush Justice Department, as well as a disastrous merger with Compaq - a move that earned HP a brief boost over rival Dell before the whole thing cratered and HP's talent base began fleeing the company in droves. It's a fitting example of the numbing, Enronian incompetence that the American people are surely itching for these days, and are sure to get with a McCain presidency."

[TexasObserver]

1. That's right. Her malfeasance and misfeasance should be openly addressed.

[slinkerwink]

2. kicking for the worst CEO ever

[FrenchieCat]

3. And she's all over the TV talking shit.

We need to call for her to stand down.