Comments on: VP Talk Heating Up

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:52:50 +0000

Today, you cannot find anyone in Silicon Valley to tell you that the Compaq merger hasn't been not only successful but the most successful tech merger ever.

Funny, because I have been working in IT in the Bay Area for 15 years, with many former HP employees and Silicon Valley types among my friends, and the pretty much universal opinion is that the only real success of Fiorina's tenure was the number of times she was on magazine covers...

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:20:49 +0000

Today, you cannot find anyone in Silicon Valley to tell you that the Compaq merger hasn't been not only successful but the most successful tech merger ever.

Well, it seems to me that if the above were so, then HP's stock price would be high relative to its competitors in the field. Is it?

By: dan

dan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:50:24 +0000

Maybe we should just make Boone Pickens the oil man president.!!
Or Vice Pres. lol http://www.tboonepickens.com

I just seen the poll results on Veep Peek, , As far as Obama Oddly enough Veep Peek has handicapped Wes Clark still near the top of the list. I am partial to Huckabee for McCains VP though. Huckabee is at the top of the poll list.!! Yeaaa! If you want to see the Veep Poll results I will leave the link http://www.VeepPeek.com

By: Tom Traubert

Tom Traubert — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:18:29 +0000

I'm not "speaking for" anybody, Steve. I'm stating some facts. I got the facts about HP stock prices from Yahoo finance historical prices. I got the facts about the golden parachute she received when she was fired from the Wall Street Journal and CNN, references provided and followed from her bio on Wikipedia. Who do you think you are "speaking for"?

By: Stormy Dragon

Stormy Dragon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:13:41 +0000

Does McCain really want a VP candidate with a wiretapping scandal in her background?

By: Dodd

Dodd — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:15:57 +0000

It’s hard to imagine that he’d go with Dodd, who I find likeable and serious, given that he’s running on a “youth” and “change” message and Dodd is old and has been in Washington since roughly the Civil War.

Discussions such as these are very difficult for me.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:41:58 +0000

Oh and about the severance package? It was actually 14 Million and she allowed it to be voted on by the shareholders. We approved... and we're not mad about it either. So don't speak for us when criticzing Carly.

I followed her tenure pretty closely at HP, and I'm sorry but she was universally panned as a narcissist and a poor leader of the 1st order. If you have a subscription to that lefty daily, the WSJ, you can read about how universally disliked she was. The Compaq-HP merger wound up succeeding in the end, but her poor execution, unwillingness to work with her board and absentism due to her frequent trips to the Swiss Alps to up her profile didn't help. Like Bloomberg's tenure in NY, Mark Hurd's tenure as the CEO has only demonstrated some of the major flaws of her time as CEO and the merger wasn't considered a success until a few years into his tenure.

By: DL

DL — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:07:34 +0000

Being from the Connecticut stateof confusion, I would select Chris Dodd. I think Obama and he make a wonderful pair in view of the sweetheart deals they both obtained on their mortgage. This is what the left means by change -a different manner of corruption.

approval -9% and sinking faster than the Dow.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:41:29 +0000

The best thing about selecting Sebelius is it might get her out of Kansas.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:10:36 +0000

She certainly adds some things to a McCain ticket, notably economic expertise and freshness.

I'm not sure about her "expertise" since she ran HP into the ground.

Of course, given the wiretap scandal at HP she would certainly be well-positioned to take over the helm from Dark Knight Cheney.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:58:52 +0000

Hey Tom,

How do you rationalize HP's leadership in personal computers without mentioning HP's merger with Compaq? She lost her job over the perceived poor performance of that merger. Today, you cannot find anyone in Silicon Valley to tell you that the Compaq merger hasn't been not only successful but the most successful tech merger ever.

Oh and about the severance package? It was actually 14 Million and she allowed it to be voted on by the shareholders. We approved... and we're not mad about it either. So don't speak for us when criticzing Carly.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:21:09 +0000

Carly's not flummoxed by Viagra -- that might be a counterweight to McCain.

By: Tom Traubert

Tom Traubert — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:17:43 +0000

HP closed at $116.25 the day Fiorina was hired as HP CEO. The day she was fired, 2/9/2005, well after the tech downturn was over, HP closed at $21.53. For that dismal performance, she took home $21 million dollars in cash, at which time institutional investors sued over this massive payout for her dismal, dismal performance as CEO. That's not change we can believe in, my friends.

By: Alex Knapp

Alex Knapp — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:22:31 +0000

Plus, OTB’s Alex Knapp, who lives in Kansas, likes her.

Really, I don't know why the Obama campaign needs anything more than that.