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politicaljunkie41910

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3. Not a fan of Carly Fiorina.
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 07:52 PM
Aug 2015

As a woman and a "Political Junkie" I have been following politics since I was on the debate team in junior high school. I have been following the 2016 republican candidates and saw both debates. I had seen Carly in several interviews prior to the debate. Admittedly, her fast speech and what has always seemed like she has a chip on her shoulder during interviews, has always annoyed me, but I listen to her when she's on a program, nonetheless. In each case, she has always had a stump speech about why she had been fired from HP, beginning with a whole host of achievements during her time at HP and always ending up with her attributing her being fired as "when you question the status quo you make enemies" and attributing her firing as a boardroom politics.

So she was on Morning Joe last week, (not the interview after the debate) and she was asked about her firing from HP and she led in with her canned speech. So when she concluded once again that she was fired for threatening the status quo and boardroom politics and has never tried to hide the fact that she was fired, Joe S. chimes in with, "So What! Steve Jobs was fired. So was Oprah Winfrey and he listed several others."

So this morning, I'm watching the Sunday Talks shows, (I tape each one, by the way) I watched Carly on three of them and when asked about the HP firing she went into her usual stump speech. But this time, when she concluded with, "...she was fired", she stated to Chris Wallace that "but so was Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney and Mike Bloomberg, so I'm in good company." She repeated it on each of the shows. My immediate thought was, "Carly, you are no Steve Jobs".

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