Bull Moose McCain Gores Wall Street

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"I think it's worth keeping in mind that the formative years for McCain were spent in the U.S. Navy (and a Vietnamese POW camp), a place where the cardinal values are duty, honor, service, and sacrifice for the greater good"
Sounds like the cardinal values a publicly-held company's CEO is supposed to have: duty, honor, service, and sacrifice for the greater good of the shareholder, rather than weasel, inflate, drain, and parachute for the greater good of the C-suite.

Eugene Franco of NY 1:18AM April 19, 2008

So here's a challenge:
CONTROL in America's boardrooms has shifted for the worse over the past 30 years. As a result, due diligence and oversight are out the window. We are now enjoying the results of this self-serving governance.
Instead of lauding adulation on CEO's, how about pressing for restructure of their boards of directors. All of them.
"WE THE SHAREHOLDERS OF YOUR COMPANIES...... >>
 http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-to-ceos-of-fortune-1000-cos.html 
The sooner the better, before the cracks in the system become too big for putty.
Common sense needs more than a nudge here. BLOGGERS let's blog the boardrooms into common sense with a little persuasion.

PacificGatePost of WA 9:31PM April 16, 2008

So here's a challenge:
CONTROL in America's boardrooms has shifted for the worse over the past 30 years. As a result, due diligence and oversight are out the window. We are now enjoying the results of this self-serving governance.
Instead of lauding adulation on CEO's, how about pressing for restructure of their boards of directors. All of them.
"WE THE SHAREHOLDERS OF YOUR COMPANIES...... >>
 http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-to-ceos-of-fortune-1000-cos.html 
The sooner the better, before the cracks in the system become too big for putty.
Common sense needs more than a nudge here. BLOGGERS let's blog the boardrooms into common sense with a little persuasion.

PacificGatePost of WA 9:29PM April 16, 2008