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McCain Defends Fiorina's Golden Parachute
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This weekend, John McCain defended unhelpful surrogate Carly Fiorina's generous severance package from Hewlett Packard:
"I think she did a good job as CEO in many respects," McCain told "The Today Show's" Meredith Vieira when she pressed him on the matter in light of McCain's recent accusations of greed on Wall Street.
"I know that she was a very successful businesswoman. Started out as a part-time secretary and made her way to the top of the corporate ladder as one of the biggest CEOs in the United States of America," McCain said after noting that he was unaware of the specifics of her compensation package.
Fiorina received ...
McCain Defends Fiorina's Golden Parachute
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This weekend, John McCain defended unhelpful surrogate Carly Fiorina's generous severance package from Hewlett Packard:
"I think she did a good job as CEO in many respects," McCain told "The Today Show's" Meredith Vieira when she pressed him on the matter in light of McCain's recent accusations of greed on Wall Street.
"I know that she was a very successful businesswoman. Started out as a part-time secretary and made her way to the top of the corporate ladder as one of the biggest CEOs in the United States of America," McCain said after noting that he was unaware of the specifics of her compensation package.
Fiorina received ...
Golden parachutes
Political Animal —
GOLDEN PARACHUTES.... The only consistent element of John McCain's recent rhetoric on economic issues is that he's just not thinking things true. In the latest example, McCain has been, in true populist style, railing against " golden parachutes ...
McCain: Only Failed CEOs Who Work For Me Should Get Golden Parachutes
Firedoglake —
McSame, campaigning in Scranton this morning, said:
"We cannot have taxpayers footing the bill for bloated golden parachutes like we see in the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy, where the top executives are asking for $2.5 billion in bonuses after they ran the company into the ...
Midday open thread
Daily Kos —
Josh Marshall: Republicans have decided that their argument on the credit crisis will be to argue that Democrats created the crisis by forcing banks to give too many loans to black people and other minorities. The Obama campaign must have seen, in its numbers, the same thing a couple of public polls showed -- that North Dakota was drifting out of contention. It has pulled its staff from the state and sent them to Minnesota and Wisconsin. On Election Day, Obama will have improved Democratic performance in the state, and we will get progressively closer to making it a true swing ...
