Quote:Just as an aside (homer alert) I think those criticizing Fiorina's business record are missing the big picture.  While i do concede that when considering someone for the highest office in the land that every aspect of their professional career should be subject to scrutiny, i also think that it should be taken in its entirety.  When you talk about Carly Fiorina you're not talking about the son of a captain of industry who ran their parents enterprise into the ground.  You are not talking about someone who was locked away in the halls of academia theorizing and in their one shot at really pursuing a career failed.  You're talking about someone who started as a secretary in a real estate office, became an entry level employee at At&t lead a successful spin off of an entire divsion and then became CEO of a fortune 500 company.  The criticism of her time at the helm of HP boils down to the fact that after a controversial merger (that put her at odds with the son of the companies founder) she ONLY increased the sales of the new merged company by 9 billion dollars in a 6 year period that saw the bursting of the dot com bubble, 9-11 and the start of two wars....   

 

I could get into the fact that ray kcrock almost went bankrupt 3 times, it took Thomas Edison 10k ittirations before he finally invented the light bulb, etc. etc.  Heck, the united states of America had to tear up the articles of confederation, pass a new constitution immediately ammend it ten times and fight a civil war to get it right.