Carly Fiorina was on Face the Nation this morning. She is McCain's new spokesperson. You can find her if you google Carly Fiorina enterprises. She is impressive if you believe everything that is on her website.

However, on Face the Nation, she said she had received SO MANY messages from women, Hillary supporters too, who are thrilled beyond wet panties (okay that's my simile) that Sarah Palin is on McCain's ticket.

So I thought I should weigh in with her to give another side to her burbling. Here is what I sent to her after clicking on "contact" on her website:

"In your remarks on Face the Nation today, you said you had received many messages from women, many former Hillary supporters, who were engaged and thrilled to have Sarah Palin on the Republican ticket.

I was and am a Hillary supporter. The abortion issue is no longer on my personal agenda but I believe my sisters have the right to the same choices men do. Please don't suggest, as you did, that it is the only reason women supported HIllary.

My other issues concern religious domination of every other facet of life. Religion, whether it is Islam or Christian or any other, does not belong in politics. It is at the root of most wars.

Hillary also is on my side on the ecology, on health care, on education for the poor, on the war, to mention just a few.

Mrs. Palin, an NRA member and supporter of oil drilling any and everywhere, would not be my choice for anything but Mother of the Year. And who is going to mother her children if she is elected? Or does she think she can balance this particular job with her family? Even men, who have not traditionally been caregivers at home, have not been able to do so once they reach high office.

It is important that you understand, as the newly anointed (and I choose that word carefully) female (and I choose that word carefully) voice of the Republican party, know that McCain and Palin are not a slam-dunk, not by any means, and if this country is to survive, they should not prevail.

Sincerely,"

Well, I didn't get rabid because you never make points that way, but I oh so wanted to smack her one. You should have heard that interview.

If any of you want to weigh in with her, please do. She needs to hear that the women out there (and men, too, if you please) are not clinging to the hem of any female garment merely because it's there.

xx, Teal

Comments:

Actually my views on religion are very much in line with yours. I don't, however, make broad generalzations condemning them. Most religions have good intentions that when inerpreted in that light are a positive force in society.
Hypocracy, I should note, is not strictly found among the religious. I have hardly found more violence in any movement than the PEACE movement.

Right on Sistah!!!!! McCain has really used bad judgement and I hope it backfires and that all the young people will come out and vote this year.

Oh I remember her...

On 9 February 2005, Carly Fiorina was dismissed as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard. Fiorina said in a statement:

"While I regret that the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision. HP is a great company and I wish all the people of HP much success in the future."

She was replaced by Patricia C. Dunn as Chairman, and then-C.F.O. Robert Wayman as C.E.O.[29] Hewlett-Packard's stock jumped 7% on news of her departure.

Under Hewlett-Packard's severance agreement, Carly Fiorina received US$21 million in cash, which was 2.5 times her base annual salary.[31] On March 8, 2006, two large institutional investors filed suit against Hewlett-Packard for violating its own severance cap when it doled out a multimillion-dollar payment to Fiorina as part of her termination agreement.

After Fiorina's departure from Hewlett-Packard in 2005, the company quickly prospered, overtaking Dell as the top-selling computer maker in the world.

Figures she now works for FOX Business News....

comment by strider333 on Aug 31, 2008 12:03 PM ()

Thanks for these fascinating details. It sounds like HP broke its own severance rule because they were desperate to get rid of her and were willing to offer her anything. Would love to know the inside story. The lawsuit will punish HP, but I would like it to succeed if it would mean she would have to give some of it back. I guess things don't work that way.

reply by tealstar on Sept 1, 2008 12:49 PM ()