Candidates Court ‘Big Business Brands’ – WSJ.com

Oy. My emphasis.

Candidates Court ‘Big Business Brands’ – WSJ.com

Sen. McCain this week is trotting out a new campaign theme called the “economic surge,” a domestic effort modeled after his support of more troops in the Iraq war. He plans to release the “Tech 100” — high-tech executives who back his economic plans, a list the campaign says includes Cisco Systems Inc.’s John Chambers and Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems Inc. On the campaign trail, Sen. McCain has lately been accompanied by Stanford University economist John Taylor, advising him, among other things, on oil prices and futures markets as the candidate calls for more offshore drilling. At other times, former chief executives Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard Co., or Meg Whitman of eBay Inc., back up Sen. McCain on the stump.

hat tip: simon

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3 responses to “Candidates Court ‘Big Business Brands’ – WSJ.com”

  1. I’m not terribly surprised; Scott is known for his libertarian, Maverick streak (remember, that’s his son’s name!)

    Honestly, he needs to distance himself from Carly. She destroyed HP; when people think of her they think of her destroying HP, so that’s not a wise association on his part.

  2. credibility of such a solution: Z-E-R-O

    why? those Tech 100 Execs are in the top 1% of income and thus have no concept of how the rest of us live. This is typical Republican politics, which I casually mentioned on 8 July:

    (they’ve) “done a spectacular job at one thing: convincing 51% of the people that they should always vote for what’s best for the top 1% (wealth) – of which they are NOT a member.”

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