Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Fiorina clarifies: ‘I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation.’

Think Progress -

Earlier today, McCain spokeswoman Carly Fiorina told a St. Louis radio program that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) was not qualified to run a business. This afternoon, she reiterated her comments on MSNBC, this time clarifying that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — or any other presidential candidate — couldn’t run a major corporation either. Watch it:




Fiorina said that “it’s a fallacy” to compare the presidency to running a company, and thus McCain’s inability to run a corporation shouldn’t matter. Similarly, this morning campaign spokesman Douglas Holtz-Eakin seemed to suggest that McCain’s understanding of the economy was not important, since he’s “not running to be treasury secretary.

Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor responded: "If John McCain’s top economic advisor doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis? Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should."

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