For those who may not remember or know, Fiorina was the C.E.O. of Hewlett Packard until 2005 when she was fired. Her most famous quote; No American has a God given right to a Job just because they were American. She fired tens of thousands of employees to then outsource jobs overseas. She managed to skip out of Lucent right before the Feds arrived and started the HP Boardroom investigation which connected to the scandal and the hostile culture she created at HP.

Whitman is currently embroiled in a boycott from the buyers and sellers who made eBay (a.k.a. greebay, feepay) successful. Seems like they want to have a cleansing of their members. The boycott calls for no buying or selling and the evacuating from eBay by May 1, 2008. The most recent faux pax is the conflicting story given for what many called ‘mystery auction listings’ mysteriously from the Shopping dot com site (sdc). Explanations started as a glitch in the system, changed to limited test that ran its course, changed to accident and back to a test. The SEC should love this investigation. Keep in mind, eBay’s stocks have been steadily sagging and Wall Street measures eBay based on listings. Can’t forget the current Paypal lawsuit; eBay has tied PayPal to be the only means one can buy/sell on eBay which violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Fiorina and Whitman’s involvement with the Senator will surely guarantee a Democratic victory but then again both want to be the Governor of California so their motives are, usual for them, self serving.

If Obama or Hillary had any accomplishments to point to, I’d consider voting for them. McCain has a demonstrated career of working with Democrats, and has many pieces of important legislation bearing his name.

Yes, Nag, the visa programs are causing harm. They should either be cut back and/or a moratorium placed on E-3, F, H-1B, J, and L guest-work visas for a few years. Since research from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Urban Institute, RAND Corp., Duke, Stanford, UC Davis, Georgetown, and Harvard, and a simple look at BLS employment projections and NCES degrees earned all show we’ve been producing far more brighte, knowledgeable, creative, productive US citizen STEM workers, and there’s a huge pool of under-employed and undemployed US citizen STEM workers, even a 20 year moratorium would not produce a shortage. A visa is a privilege, and Americans have had to wait as long as 4 years just to get a passport, while US STEM workers have been unemployed for stretches that long, so you’ll get little sympathy from me even if it takes you 10 or 15 years to pass a proper background investigation and get a green card.

My post got deleted too! Maybe it was because I commented on how Fiorina doesn’t really say anything specific or of substance about McCain’s stances on tech issues (at least twice in the interview she said she hasn’t ‘had that discusion with him yet’ about a specific issue)

Maybe it was because I commented on how scary McCain’s self-admitting lack of tech savvy and knowledge at a personal level would be for a President (in the interview they mention he isn’t an “everyday computer-user”)

But it was probably because I was laughing at Arrington’s own link #18 where Andrew from CV asks “is Michael Arrington the Katie Couric of tech blogs?”.

LOL censorship at TC all China-style. Wheee…….

I expect more from you than that. At least I used to. Between Lacy and this, I’m not so sure what I should be expecting.

Take a page from Judy Miller:

Rule#1 - Don’t get too close to your subjects, especially when politics are concerned.

Rule #2 - It doesn’t matter how big a deal your subject is, treat them like a person. Flattery gets you nowhere, accountability will get you where you need to go: the story.

I’m going to become a McCain Democrat in about five minutes, Michael Arrington if you cannot tell me *what you think* and what Obama’s position is, and why you think it is “better”.

But before you all get too excited - Hillary was Chairwoman of the US - India Friendship Caucus which is all about offshoring and visas, and Mr. Obama is taking tiny steps because he knows Microsoft gives big campaign money to democrats. I’m afraid under the different suits your going to find pretty much the same thing when it comes to jobs and the economy.

As long as big business can keep the politicians in TV time they are going to do what the CEOs want - and that is to keep labor costs down (except theirs), no matter what the cost to this country.

If you think the recession is due to mortgage collapses - thats only part of it - the long term effects of an unbalanced trade and good jobs being offshored will be the widening of the gap between the rich and poor and the decimation of the middle class. Welcome to the 3rd world.

More information at http://www.madnamerica.com

If someone is beautiful, I can say it in the comment as long as I don’t disrespect anyone. And I said it respectfully.

To the person who deleted my post, that wasn’t cool.. and she’s still hot.

(Please do not delete, I read TC everyday I love it and my comments should matter)

The reason you wish that is because you don’t know enough about him. He never got close enough to power for his dirty laundry to be exposed (or he was given a pass due to his race.) If you do a little research on him, I guarantee you won’t like what you read.

Will McCain strengthened out education? I do not know. But I think he has a better platform to even attempt it.

Just FYI : Year 2007.

Every year Starting on April 1st( The first working day of April) people can start applying for H1B Visa and last year just the first day there were around 120K applications. Of which only 65,000 needs to be selected.

One more beast is the Green Card’s, hopefully they will increase the VISA numbers for Green card. I myself was waiting for the past 4 years.

Just hoping for the best.

I am glad Mike has a mention in his post, and hope fully some day about GC also.

Cheers, Nag

As I noted there, this Democrat is very pleased with McCain’s choice of Carly Fiorina, increasing my confidence that a Democrat will be taking the oath of office in just 308 more days. Carly likes to schmooze with CEOs and rock stars (remember the HP iPod?), but has no love and apparently no ability to handle day-to-day operations.

I spent 19 months at HP (through an acquisition) during her reign, and I have rarely encountered such a dysfunctional company. Much of my time was spent coordinating with other business units rather than actually developing and shipping our own [software] products.

McCain has said that the US might have a presence in Iraq for the next 100 years. I’m pretty tired of the deaths, destruction, and the occupation over the past five years, not to mention the $2 billion that vanishes every day we are there.

I’m just waiting for the photo op of Carly and her perfect hair in some East LA barrio, an Appalachian coal town, or Cleveland’s rough Hough district explaining Sen. McCain’s economic plans.

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Nice to see u covering all the aspects of the society.

Good job..

H1’s is a very sensitive topic, i don’t think anyone is going to talk on this(other than the CEO’s ) till the elections are over.

Cheers, Nag