Top McCain Surrogate Says McCain's Not Qualified To Run a Corporation

—By David Corn

| Tue Sep. 16, 2008 11:26 AM PDT

First, a McCain aide suggested John McCain invented the BlackBerry. But now, another top McCain aide--Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard--says that McCain (and Sarah Palin) would not be qualified to run a major corporation. Really, she did:

Update: The fallout of this comment has not been good for Fiorina.

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