How in the world does McCain think he's going to end golden parachutes?

Any McCain supporters even want to take a guess at that one?

I work for an HP competitor and had to laugh the first time I saw Carly Fioina as McCain's "economic adviser". Another example of McCain's poor judgement...taking advice from a failed CEO who nearly destroyed a great company like HP. McCain reformer? Laughable.

I pity American, i pity the next 4yrs, i wonderd what it will look like if MCCAIN PALIN finally came to power, American will beg for bread soon. i am not American but i love GREAT USA !! Please american put party diffrences and race apart and chose a wise and acceptable leader Think of ur future dont think of more wars. good luck as you chose ur leader but remainber both friends and enemy are watching you some will want you to do one more mistake so that Great American will become history.

This is typical of the republicans and their talk of corporate and personal morality. Corruption is only immoral if it’s the democrats that are corrupt. The $45 million golden parachute Carly Fiorina pilfered after misdirecting the once great HP, the Mc cainiacs would have you believe, is different from other corporate crooks. On the personal front, when they talk about family values, they never include devoice. That’s because so many of their icons are themselves devoiced. They talk about the Iraqi war as if it started from the point of the surge. If you listen to them you would think that the first five years of the war didn’t happen. There moral threshold is always wide enough to include there actions. So many hypocrites so little time.

Samm Carr
Fort Worth, Texas

Carly ran HP into the ground. She is a metaphor for the lack of vision in McCain's economic team.

How do you have someone who basically destroyed a profitable and financially sound company be the face of your economic team?

Just wait until Carly gives all of America the same HP medicine as part of a McCain administration. If we thought George Bush was bad, at least he had an MBA degree, and had some idea of how to help one struggling industry - Oil companies. John McCain and Palin are even worse students with poorer intellects than Bush/Cheney. Can we really expect them to save us from financial ruin?

I think not!

Debra; you again. Where do you get your facts from? the House of McShame?
Okay : Let's do have some fun with this little factoid.
let's say the McShames donate 44% of their %.5MILLION, in income.
That's 2.42 big ones
How do you suggest they maintain the unknown # (to JM) estates they own, and pay the taxes, and staff, and run their companies.
Let's 'pretend' they get refunds, tax breaks, and financial windfalls that total approx. 1.21 big ones
Now lets'prtend' that they get "donations, gifts, and expensive trips paid for by "friends" who happen to lobby fo big oil, big banking, big pharmaceuticals, and that shave snother
1.2 off their expenses.
gosh, that leave about .02
when you were watching our lovely Mrs. Cindy McShame on stage at the GOP convention, did you notice how well dressed and attired she was? No?
Too bad.
her outfit was enough to pay for your daughters college, her Masters Degree, her Doctorate, and her first home.
Not that you would care.
When you believe that JM is going to grow cahunes to even ASK anyone to work for a dollar a year, than I've got a bridge in Alaska I'd like to sell you...

44% of the Mccain's income is probably still 4 or 5 times that of the Obama's entire income...probably allot more.

Fiorina failed massively and on a grand scale. I know allot about finance too. She walked away with more money than all the people would have made in all of their entire lifetimes combined who lost their job's because of her failed leadership. What does that say about her?

Kurt - It says she negotiated a good deal, and was willing to put in the hours, be the bulls-eye target for every employee/shareholder/analyst/media reporter, and still prbly got 77% of what a male CEO would have made.

ooh ! ooh1 I've got it now!
They're ging to change the parchutes from gold to platinum! That's how they are going to get rid of them!

The McCain campaign is the gang that couldn't talk straight. How much bamboozlement, lying, hypocrisy can one group of people shovel onto the public? THis is just getting ridiculous. The only thing they can do right is demonize Obama. When the real world and actual issues that affect the average voter creep into the campaign, they just start making $hit up and hoping someone buys it. What a pathetic bunch of amateurs!

Carly lied blatantly yesterday when she accused the "democrat dominated" congress of not managing FreddieMac and FannieMae properly. After the massive pay package she received for screwing up Carly should have time to retake some civics courses. Congress = the senate and the house of representatives and proposals developed by the Senate financial services committee to reform FreddieMac and FannieMae over the last 3 years have been vetoed by George Bush and opposed by John McCain. Why? Because Bush McCain and Fiorina are multi-millionaires.

Please, America, crush these despicable people at the polls and send them away for 20 years. With or without lipstick they are pigs who do nothing but feast at the trough ...

Fiorina and Palin are in an airplane and apparently there is only one parachute.

"Do you think she has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard?"

"No, I don’t, but that’s not what she’s running for. Running a corporation is a different set of things."

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Of Course, running the United States of America after McCain drops, with two wars and a rotten economy is much, much easier. That's why she won't need her own parachute.

Carly is needed for the "womens vote"? Sheesh. McCain should know that just because she's a business person who mismanaged a giant company it doesn't mean she knows anything about economics.

ps: Anyone know why the crowd that greeted McCain after he was shot down were "angry"? Perhaps McCain using that tried and true tactic of General LeMay ... mass bombings of civilians for the sin of living under communism (or imperial Japan or whatever)? That would explain the anger. Every since he riffed that little "bomb Iran" tune (stealing music from the Beach Boys) he deserves less than zero respect. Country first righ John?

How many people really believe's McCain lies. How many Wall Street lobbyists on is campaign. 10 - 15. Like do people really believe McCain is for the middle class people. Seems to me, McCain is only for the middle class people around election time. His voting record of 26 years show a different story. Big Business and Rep's go hand in hand.

An incompetent, failed CEO who is a mouthpiece for the McCain campaign says that neither McCain nor Palin is competent to run a company but she wants us to let them lead the FREE WORLD and the ENTIRE U.S. ECONOMY???

How will McCain end golden parachutes? With his super powers - after all McCain can do anything: he is a war vetran (ok so it was an undeclared "police action" with massive chemical bombings of innocent civilians but still - he's a vetran and was tortured, etc).

BTW does anyone know of McCain is now in favour or opposed to illegal arrest deportation and torture in Guantanamo? Either torture is an effective a form of intelligence gathering and McCain must have told the north vietnamese a lot of useful information (possibly losing the war); or it is useless and a waste of money and a desecration of the american constitution, any notion of justice or a fair trial.

Top surrogate Carly Fiornia gets a $21.4M "golden parachute" that McCain has decided to come out against and Phil Gramm, his top economic adviser, was the person behind the deregulation that has us in the mess we are in today (that McCain believes we weren't in yesterday).

Ben Straub - does it make you feel better that I, and many many of my friends, are voting for McCain and Palin in this election cycle. I just cannot see what you see in Obama so he doesnt even get a look in this year i'm afraid.
I dont think for a second that i'm going to cause this country to go into the ground, i believe that if obama is elected we will be in a recession within a month because he is making us so depressed now with his doom and gloom speeches on the economy (not ever saying we are going to pull through)

"...We will make businesses work for the benefit of their shareholders and employees..." McCain said.

How, precisely, does the Pres of the U.S. accomplish this? What is McCain going to do? This seems like an awefully vague, empty promise.

Louise - Go right ahead and vote McShame. When you are living in a tent dont complain. McShame is going to give you 4 more years of Bush policies. Anyone considering voting for 4 more years of McBush is insane. Just like America cant vote for the best candidate cuz hes black. We as a country havent come that far and deserve whatever we get.