Quotes to Live By From the Incorrigible Meg Whitman!
by Tony Chavira
I didn't realize that Google had a new feature where it filtered through tons of news articles for quotes by people! Let's get this ball rolling...
Answering a panelist's question about the stock deal, Whitman, the billionaire former CEO of EBay, said, "I did not do anything wrong. With 20-20 hindsight, would I do it again? No, because it was called into question."
Yeah, but if it weren't called into question, it would have be totally fine.
"It was a very legal, very standard practice at the time. ...... I did not actually see a conflict of interest here," Whitman said. "But the truth is, leaders have to be above reproach."
This was said in reference to the Goldman Sachs stock she was allowed to invest in and how she essentially helped to exacerbate the downfall of the American financial sector. What she is essentially admitting to here is that morality and legality are different things (which they are). She clearly doesn't care that what she did was immoral. I mean, how bad could it have been if it were legal?
"Sacramento even tries to tell our schools how to buy blackboards," Whitman said. "It's insane. The state is too big."
Does Meg Whitman not understand that government-instigated RFIs are the way people like you and I get work from the government AND kids and teachers get good stuff in their classrooms for cheap? I mean, I know she does... she's clearly not dumb, but she seems to think that only morons listen to her because she is pandering to the moron strata of our population. Also, I'm not sure if Meg thought about this when she said it, but the state of California has both the largest deficit in the nation and the largest population. That makes us big. By definition.
"It isn't going to help if the federal government doesn't step up," Whitman said.
An appropriate quote to follow the last one, I deemed.
Whitman responded, "I do think the scientists say that the earth is getting warmer. Whether it is manmade or not, I don't know. I'm not a scientist."
No. You are a politician who should want to use information to govern. Or not, I don't know. I'm not a politician.
Meg Whitman calls herself a "Main Street executive, not a Wall Street executive."
Does that even make sense to anyone? How many executives do you know living on Main Street, USA?
"Steve Poizner called himself an Arnold Schwarzenegger Republican when he ran for insurance commissioner," Whitman said. "Now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is not so popular anymore, he is absolutely running the other direction."
Wouldn't you? Not that I like Steve Poizner, but I don't see how this very obvious observation means anything in the wider gamut of debate. Poizer should've just responded "absolutely, that is what politics is about Meg. Just the way you're trying to distance yourself from a Wall Street scandal. We did things in our past. Heads up, we've all got pasts." Are state Republicans actually falling for lines like this?
"Here's where I think we can make a big difference by loosening some of the workplace rules and regulations," Whitman said in an interview with The Desert Sun.
This isn't really something I'd say right after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but hey... it's not my gubernatorial campaign.
"There is only one liberal Republican on the stage tonight," Ms. Whitman said, "and it is not me."
You are wrong, Meg Whitman. Neither of you are really that Republican at all. Both of you don't give a shit about the Republican population of California and helping their problems because neither of you have ever really been one of them: trapped with a mortgage you can't pay, about to lose your home after being out of work for months. You are rich and work with other rich people to become more rich. Poizner works with politicians to become richer, but really... what's the difference at this point? Now that you need the votes of those you screwed over by playing Russian roulette with our credit, you felt compelled to apologize. But did you give any of the money back? Yes: to local television stations in commercial time to make people aware that you exist at all and increase your chances of winning through awareness. Well, it worked. You're a household name in California now, congratulations. Now please either say something worthwhile or stop blowing your vast fortune on empty promises in a heated lust for political power.
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