Treasury Secretary - CEO of eBay

[liberal N proud]

McCain suggested he would select Meg Whitman, Former CEO and President of eBay as Treasury Secretary


EBAY? PLEEEEESE

[shraby]

1. That's cause she understands the intertubes.

[XemaSab]

2. A lot of people in the last few years

have made a living selling their family heirlooms and other worldly goods on e-bay. :crazy:

[radfringe]

3. considering most of our country is owned by other countries

what do we have left to put up on e-bay?

I'd suggest putting the entire repub party up for sale on e-bay, but I doubt there were be many bidders

[dennis4868]

4. she could not even....

sell Palin plane how is she going to run the economy?

[Loge23]

5. Perfect choice!

Since McCain will be auctioning off Medicare, Social Security, access, etc., etc.

[rug]

6. It's a tease. He's vetting Wilford Brimley.

[lamp_shade]

7. And how many ebay employees were just layed off?

[Arkansas Granny]

8. For someone who sees Sarah Palin as VP material, Meg Whitman probably seems

like a wonderful choice.

[DoctorMyEyes]

9. That proposal loses him the ebay seller demographic

He's unbelievably tone deaf - those "millions" of people making their living on ebay hate no one more than they hate Meg Whitman. Not to mention the several million that are just trying to sell their "minty vintage whatsit" from the attic.

HATE her...

Edited to add a link to an ebay discussion thread.
http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=510024434&tstart=0&mod=1223453464814

She's been hated and railed against on ebay discussion boards for years. McCain is goofy.

[DemoTex]

10. Will PayPal collect the taxes?

:shrug:

[renie408]

12. LOL n/t

[vanderBeth]

14. LOL

:rofl:

[renie408]

11. Yeppers...because she 'employs' 1.3 million people!! n/t

[flpoljunkie]

13. Well, he could not tell us his reported real choice--Phil 'we're a nation of whiners' Gramm.

McCain knows Phil Gramm is responsible for the massive deregulation that has brought us to where we are today--on the verge of economic meltdown, now seemingly fueled by fear.

[No Elephants]

15. Wasn't she fired, too?

[PA Democrat]

16. That's appropriate considering how the Republican party has been selling off

chunks of our country to the highest bidder, usually a K Street lobbyist.

[Medusa]

17. Ebay laid off 10,000 people earlier this week

so how is that a well-run company?

[electron_blue]

18. That flyball came *out* of left field.

[NashVegas]

19. Great. We Can Bid On Health Care

[Courtesy Flush]

20. We can pay our taxes with PayPal n/t