Foot Shooting

By Ron Beasley

The Gallup Daily Tracking poll shows that the Palin bounce is gone and it remains to be seen how the current economic problems will impact the race.  Not a good time for self inflicted wounds but we a couple today.  First, Joe Gandelman reports that John McCain is attacking reporters and looking like a grumpy old man in the process.

When a politician goes after a newsperson or anchor who asks a journalistic question so basic that a student from a journalism school could have it as part of an assignment in interviewing a politician it means several things:

(1)The politician is feeling the heat and trying to deflect a question that is not helpful to his campaign s he tries to discredit the reporter. (2)The politician is tired and testy…something that will not help McCain if he is seen as brittle in public at a time when he is under fire for ads that are less than truthful. (3)He either has handlers who are not doing their work or they’re underestimating who actively going after reporters can stiffen the resolve of news and morning show editors editors, reporters to ensure that the candidate will be asked the tough questions that are “out there”).

Next Sam Stein tells us that Carly Fiorina may think that Sarah Palin is qualified to run the country but not qualified to run a major corporation like HP.

As Sam says Fiorina just gave the Obama campaign a great commercial.

Update

Fiorina just kept digging that hole:

But then the former HP chief dug herself a deeper hole during an interview on MSNBC, attempting to explain away the Palin remark by saying, hey, McCain couldn't run HP either. "I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation ...

Barack Obama's camp jumped into the melee. “If John McCain’s top economic advisor doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis? Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should,” said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.

Comments

[huh]

Biden, Obama, and McCain are similarly unqualified to run HP, for that matter.

Guess that's why we're not electing the CEO of HP this November.

[Pug]

Carly Fiorina proved herself to be unqualified to run HP. She was unceremoniously fired by the board. Of course, she got one of those cushy CEO severance packages that John McCain hates so much today. Not yesterday, today.