Fiorina: Obama Reminds Me Of Herbert Hoover

Carly Fiorina, one of John McCain’s advisers, kept up the presidential name-calling game Tuesday, a day after McCain himself compared Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter.

“So I think what you have here is Barack Obama, without a great deal of understanding in the economy, going back to the same old tax-and-spend philosophies of the liberal Democratic past,” she said on Fox News. “He reminds me a bit of Jimmy Carter — or Herbert Hoover, even worse.”

Hoover was in the White House during the stock market crash of 1929 and the start of the Great Depression. McCain said Monday that Obama would represent a second Carter term. Democrats, meanwhile, have argued that a McCain victory would mean a third term for President George W. Bush.

Fiorina’s remark was part of an exchange in which she blasted Obama’s economic proposals. She said that they would lead to tax hikes harmful to the economy.

“In fact, every program he’s proposed is a tax increase, whether it’s an increase in payroll taxes, an increase in capital gains and dividend taxes, an increase in Social Security taxes, or an increase on small- business owners,” she said.

Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, was later asked by Fox News’s Martha MacCallum whether she was on McCain’s shortlist of possible running mates.

“Well, you know what, John McCain will have lots of highly qualified people that he can choose from to be his vice president,” she said. “Right now I’m just honored to be able to help in some small way to elect him president of the United States.”

Asked if she would serve, Fiorina said, “Well, anyone would be honored to serve under a President McCain.”

Here’s video of Fiorina’s interview: