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Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, has announced that she will seek the Republican nomination for the 2016 US presidential election:
"Yes, I am running for president," she said on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she made the announcement to host George Stephanopoulos. "I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world, who's in it, how the world works. I understand bureaucracies, and that's what our federal government has become — a giant, bloated, unaccountable, corrupt bureaucracy," she said. "I understand technology, which is a tool both to re-imagine government to re-engage citizens in the process of government, and I understand executive decision-making, which is making a tough call in a tough time with high stakes for which you're prepared to be accountable."
The former Hewlett-Packard executive said she does not believe that it is necessary to have experience in political office, something that she has heard from Americans while traveling throughout the country. "They're kind of tired of the political class, and they believe that we need to return to a citizen government," she said.
Fiorina also slammed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying that she is not trustworthy. While Fiorina said she admires Clinton, she asserted that the former secretary of state has not been transparent about issues ranging from Benghazi to foreign donations to her family's foundation.
Fiorina also launched her presidential campaign website on Monday, featuring a one-minute video with the message that America's founders "never intended us to have a professional political class." The video begins with Fiorina watching Clinton's presidential announcement. After Clinton says she is running for president, Fiorina switches off the TV, turns to the camera and delivers her message.
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson made his announcement on Sunday; former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee is expected to join the race on Tuesday.
Gizmodo points out that Fiorina's team forgot to register the domain carlyfiorina.org.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:13AM
But I don't know if it would've been worse if she hadn't been HP CEO. They might have lost 60,000 jobs or gone out of business altogether.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:40AM
That is all.
-- gewg_
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:46AM
Dude, if you aren't going to log in, you can't complain if another AC impersonates you.
Well you can complain, but you will get nearly zero sympathy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:53AM
Actually, calling you shithead was pretty shitty of me. I apologize.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @04:44AM
Fuck me! I love to take it in the asshole!
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @09:22AM
Also, my pants are very baggy.
Very very baggy indeed.
--gewg_
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday May 05 2015, @08:02AM
Appending an arbitrary string of characters at the end of your post which any other person could also append to their posts is not "signing" in any meaningful way, shape, of form. The weird thing is that you seem to be aware of this dichotomy, yet unwilling to solve it.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @08:27AM
It is a unique combination of characters.
People here are aware of who uses that character string to identify himself.
Common courtesy would preclude someone else from using that.
...then there are certain individuals who have no honor and will sign someone else's name.
There are circumstances where that is a criminal act.
-- gewg_
(Score: 5, Touché) by Ryuugami on Tuesday May 05 2015, @11:05AM
Common courtesy would preclude someone else from using that.
Ah, you must be new here. Welcome to the Internet.
:)
If a shit storm's on the horizon, it's good to know far enough ahead you can at least bring along an umbrella. - D.Weber
(Score: 3, Funny) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:48PM
It'd be funny if Soylent's fork allowed the signing of posts with GPG. Hey!
What about a Soylent hosted keyserver - where you could register your fake-name?
I'm onto something here... Where'd you hide the Doritos?
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:43AM
> But I don't know if it would've been worse if she hadn't been HP CEO. They might have lost 60,000 jobs or gone out of business altogether.
I was an HP employee long before she showed up and a sub to them managing technical stuff on-site with one of their larger customers during her reign.
One thing she did with Compaq was lay off much of HP's middle-management and replace them with Compaq middle-management. These were the people most responsible for running Compaq so poorly that HP could afford to buy them.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday May 05 2015, @08:37AM
Moral, don't put in crappy management? ;-)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday May 05 2015, @11:19AM
If your only goal is next quarter's stock price, fire all the good expensive people and hope you're not around when it all crashes down.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday May 05 2015, @11:29AM
Guess the deal here is to sell out the citizens and fish for votes. Then leave for a nice job when the citizens get what happens. Then the next president can blame the former one and so on..
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday May 06 2015, @06:59PM
Then the next president can blame the former one and so on..
Or those that elected the former one can relentlessly blame the current one...