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Jeb | |
2 (9%) |
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Rubio | |
1 (5%) |
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Fiorina | |
2 (9%) |
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Trump | |
2 (9%) |
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Kasich | |
0 (0%) |
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Huckabee | |
4 (18%) |
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Paul | |
0 (0%) |
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Christie | |
0 (0%) |
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Carson | |
1 (5%) |
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Cruz | |
10 (45%) |
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lame54
(35,262 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)I would not be able to sleep if she got anywhere near the White House.
LuvNewcastle
(16,834 posts)Because I could see her on a ticket with Rubio. They think they might steal a few women and Hispanics.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)onyourleft
(726 posts)I can't pick just one out of this group.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The others, too, but they're not as stealthy about it.
The CEO and the CIA
How Carly Fiorina managed and advised the poobahs at Langley.
by JIM GERAGHTY
National Review, May 5, 2015
One week after 9/11, Michael Hayden, the director of the National Security Agency, the electronic surveillance arm of the U.S. government, had a long list of problems. High on the list was the fact that the NSA needed a ton of new high-tech equipment, particularly servers, right away, to handle a vastly expanded, critically important workload.
Hayden called up the CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina. HP made precisely the equipment we needed, and we needed in bulk, says Robert Deitz, who was general counsel at the NSA from 1998 to 2006. Deitz recalls that a tractor-trailer full of HP servers and other equipment was on the Washington, D.C. Beltway, en route to retailers, at the very moment Hayden called. Fiorina instructed her team to postpone the retailer delivery and have the driver stop. An NSA police car met up with the tractor-trailer and the truck proceeded, with an armed escort, to NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
It was an early moment in the close professional relationship between Hayden and Fiorina. Five years later, President George W. Bush named Hayden director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Upon assuming control at Langley, Hayden decided that he wanted to create an External Advisory Board. He once again turned to Fiorina, and she went on to chair that board.
The most obvious knock on Fiorinas newly announced presidential bid is that she has never been elected to any government office. But during the Bush presidency, Fiorina walked the corridors of the CIA and other high offices of government, assembling recommendations for national-security policy and developing a close working relationship with some of the most powerful officials in the administration. Shes already begun to cite these years in an attempt to counter those critics who say she lacks the experience needed to be commander-in-chief.
When Hayden moved to the CIA, Deitz became his senior counselor. He served as the CIAs main liaison to the advisory board, although he says Hayden and Fiorina had regular private lunch meetings.
The board had a lot of egos these were people from academia, retired three- and four-star generals, big poobahs from private industry, Deitz remembers. It was a challenging board to run. She would generally sit quietly, ask questions, but you never got a sense she was dominating or big-footing but by the end of the meeting, she had gotten exactly what she wanted. . . . Polite, but you couldnt push her around.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417938/ceo-and-cia-jim-geraghty
Thoroughly modern warmonger.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Plus he lies about being a very very very violent person and in reality he is probably only a very violent person.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)He is the slimiest, smarmiest, most sickeningly evil fuck in that group--a group that includes Donald fucking Trump. In the world of politics, Cruz is the Joker--he just wants to burn everything down and be king of the ashes.
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)Could not agree more! He has some tough competition in the "revolting" department, and they are all quite scary, but Cruz is in a league of his own.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)the most golden opportunity to tease him all the time. Voted
in the TX repuke primary - just to affect things - was in a hurry
and saw Cruz's education and thought "hmmm.at least he's educated"
Oneironaut
(5,486 posts)He looks like he would chloroform you and steal your kidney if you turned your back to him. Creepy af
Rex
(65,616 posts)Cruz hands down. Not only sick, but he gives me the hebby gebbys when I see him on TV. He strikes me as the first human in history that would start a nuclear war.
GoneOffShore
(17,337 posts)I didn't realize that Dubya said that about the Cruzer.
mnhtnbb
(31,374 posts)and then a toss-up between Huckster and Fiorina. (BTW, her name has an a on the end, not an o.)
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,374 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)They're all vomit-inducing.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I can't believe we even allow that fucking vile family to be seen in public, never mind the temerity to think they should be allowed to stink up the White House again
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)CanonRay
(14,084 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)people who DONT make us puke
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Who would voters trust?
Cruz gives people the heebie jeebies.
Johonny
(20,818 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)even get a piece of uncooked spaghetti up there
FSogol
(45,448 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)who make me far more sick than any of these ass clowns.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)that some have that literally makes you repel and feel like you are going to throw up just seeing them or hearing their voice. That will never go away for those you mention for me. Just hate to have an iota's chance that a new prez would elicit that before we get out of the gate
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)of humanity - about preserving Social Security.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)He has the education to know how damaging the viewpoints he is spouting are.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)In order:
Ipecac followed by peyote.