[With Gerstner, the company hopes to restore its credibility and add a financial juggernaut all in one deft move.] It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials, ... It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company. |
A bunch of us were appalled, ... I don't want to be represented by that. It's not Christian. ... And we're certainly not thinking about shooting government agents that come to our door. |
Each of these cases is a bit different, but they all come down to the intersection of capitalism and democracy and being lavishly wooed and courted by powerful interests and being susceptible to those interests. |
I felt honored being in his presence. He seems very sincere. |
I thought it would be a nice chance to see a lot of local bands perform. |
It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials. It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company. |
My theory is that this is not a time for timidity. |
The inaugural has sort of become a metaphor for the whole political process and how money has distorted it, |
There does seem to be a spate of scandals these days. It seems to be heavier than it's been for a while. |
These are not accidents. If they're gonna do that, I want their pink slip. |
We basically have a situation with two classes here: a sort of political and economic class, intermingling with each other at their megabucks-level inaugural galas, and the average citizens, who at best get to watch the inaugural from hundreds of yards away. |
We didn't shoot it well and we did a poor job of going to the boards. We had a lot of openings (to get the ball inside), but the guys on the perimeter just didn't see them. |
We elected a government contractor vice president. |
We have been lied to in every military escapade in the last 50 or 60 years, without exception. |
We realize what a personal friend she could become and did become to so many of us, and what a friend she was to Bonita Springs and Southwest Florida. |