McSame

Just how out of touch is McCain?  Well, during the debates he praised the business accumen of Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, only thing is that eBay just layed off about a thousand people two days ago.  So let’s do a countdown of “financial gurus” that McCain seeks advice from:

1.)  Phil Gramm (aka Foreclosure Phil)

As of early this summer, McCain proudly touted him as his chief financial adviser and he basically wrote McCain’s economic plan…and then the economy crashed, and oops, looks like this guy caused a lot of it.  So Phil Gramm gave way to…

2.) Carly Fiorna

You may not know her, but I am sure you’ve used one of the products of her former company.  Carly used to be the CEO of HP-Compaq until she was fired for basically running the company into the ground.  She was so bad at her job, that when word leaked that she was fired, HP’s stock jumped 7%.  McCain liked to throw her name around alot up until she was giving an interview one day and she said something to the effect of Palin does not have the experience to run a large corporation.  FYI, the U.S. Government is the nation’s largest employer.  So Carly gave way to …

3.) Meg Whitman

Former CEO of eBay.  Buyer of everything online.  Here’s a quick list of companies that were bought by eBay: PayPal, BillMeLater, Skype (which she admitted they overpaid about a billion for), and epinions.com.  She has been widely criticized for buying up companies, whether they jive with Ebay or not, case in pointL Skype.  Why the hell does an online auction site need to acquire a Voice-over IP software company?  Meg will eventually give way to…

4.) The Guy from Monopoly