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But I was told by self-serving neo-liberal feminists that "diversity" trickles down also.... that not true?

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OK, pretending that your not a paid propagandist, I got a question for real.

How long would you need to hold on to that stock, before you didn’t hate Carly for losing your money? BTW she was wrong then, even in retrospect. The fact that HP has to split businesses, proves Carly had no idea what she was doing, she's a greedy corporate raider.... she serves herself not the shareholders, and she wont serve the American public.

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Anyone who disagrees with your premise and you cannot use facts to defeat their opposing view you attack them personally.

I would suggests that you use your skills and develop a spread sheet comparing Hillary's accomplishment with Fironia's.

I would start with Hillary's firing from the Watergate Committee staff for lying. I would examine her years at the Rose Law Firm were her income rose and declined based of Bill;s terms as Governor. Were this champion of the environment sold discharge permits which allowed a paper company to discharge Dioxin into the Ouachita National Wildlife refuge. The Contamination was so severe that the fish from the area was deemed unfit for human consumption. The going rate for a treatment permit was a 75,000 dollar non refundable retainer to the Rose law firm.

End with Hillary's call for investigating Exon Mobil immediately after they declined to underwrite the cost of the Clinton Foundation annual conference.

You need to stop believing in the sizzle and base your position on the real facts.

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All anyone can say here is -41.3%: the performance of HP's stock price under CEO Fiorina, after adjusting for for dividends, etc. That means if you invested $1.00 in the company when she came on board in 1999, you'd have $0.59 left (including all intermediate distributions, payouts, etc) on the day her apparently catatonic board of directors finally got around to firing her in 2005. Over that same period of time, if you had invested the same dollar in the DJIA, as a proxy for the entire stock market, you'd have roughly $1.45, which means her company actually underperformed the market by approximately 60%. So yeah, Ms -60%, meet Mr 4x Bankrupt. Go GOP!

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"I see your Gender Card, and raise you ANOTHER GENDER CARD!"

This is a legitimate move in CarlyBall.

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I wonder if she thinks she can raise her profile enough to take another swing at the Senate?

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She also screwed up Lucent before HP. So there's that.

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Feel you on the printer issue.

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Euchre, or as Trump would say, "YOOOUU-KER"

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oh, now I get it, context

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He needs to buddy up to Rubio. Marco's always got water handy, these days.

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In the process of losing over 50% of the value of the company via absurdly unreasonable decisions, she also destroyed the original engineering-company culture (HP groomed Woz and Jobs, for instance, as well as many others, and the employee-oriented culture that continues in other companies in Silly Valley pretty much started at HP). To call her actions as CEO "raging incompetence" is accurate, and the company has never recovered from the disaster that was Carly.

ETA: in fact, Carly FIorina makes George W look like a thoughtful executive.

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And he was not Hillary Clinton.

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Fried?

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By Reb standards, that is a major accomplishment. Only human beings think otherwise.

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