Mother-EFFING HYPOCRITE of the CENTURY? "It's hard to feel optimistic when you don't have a job"

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Mother-EFFING HYPOCRITE of the CENTURY? "It's hard to feel optimistic when you don't have a job"

Sorry about the chemo, Carly, but PLEASE crawl back under your rock. You are the LAST thing the world needs right now.

Carly Fiorina, former chief executive officer for Hewlett Packard, made her first stop in the Valley on Thursday as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Against a backdrop of wooden peach crates and among about 100 visitors at Wawona Farms in Clovis, Fiorina, 55, said she aims to send incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer into retirement a year from now.

She touted her experience as a business leader and government outsider as reasons she can make a difference in Washington, D.C.

Fiorina also described herself as being in line with the values of Valley voters because she is a fiscal conservative who believes that life begins at conception and that marriage is between a man and a woman.

When Bill Smittcamp, owner of Wawona Farms, introduced Fiorina as a self-made woman, mother and grandmother, he stumbled over her name, which is still unfamiliar to many Californians.

Thursday was the second day of Fiorina's campaign.

Upon stepping in front of the audience, Fiorina apologized for her short hair and spoke of her recent bout with breast cancer and chemotherapy. She said she now has a clean bill of health and is "raring to go."

Fiorina said she would be a stronger advocate of government oversight against waste and fraud than Boxer, whom she criticized as having just three of her legislative bills passed in 17 years.

As a senator, Fiorina said, she will put more Americans to work.

"It's hard to feel optimistic when you don't know if you will have a job, or lost a job," she said.

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/centralvalley/story/1156309.html

The "God-given right" context:

Fiorina presented herself as a realist as to the matter of the effects of globalization. She has been a strong proponent, along with other technology executives, of the expansion of the H-1B visa program.<24> In January 2004, at a meeting to "head off rising protectionist sentiment in Congress," Fiorina said: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation."<25><26><27> While Fiorina argued that the only way to "protect U.S. high-tech jobs over the long haul was to become more competitive ," her comments prompted "strong reactions" from some technology workers who argued that lower wages overseas outside the United States encouraged the offshoring of American jobs.<28> Fiorina responded against protectionism in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, writing that while "America is the most innovative country," it would not remain so if the country were to "run away from the reality of the global economy."<29>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina