Posted on 02/11/2013 3:39:51 PM PST by Libloather
Apple CEO Tim Cook will sit with First Lady Michelle Obama during President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
It marks the second year in a row the invitation has been extended to the Apple family. Last year, Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, joined Michelle Obama in the coveted spot.
During an appearance on CNBC, White House economic advisor Gene Sperling confirmed Cook's participation.
"Apple is a great American company, and it stands for our sense of innovation, invention, entrepreneurship, and risk taking and I think that's quite an appropriate person to be in the First Lady's box when the president is talking about our economic future, the importance of job creation, manufacturing, innovation and how we create strong middle-class jobs," Sperling said.
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It’s not ironic, they are buying protection.
Apple is obviously a FR no-no.
But don’t forget the Microsoft guys are “all in” on supporting gay marriage in Wash State.
So the only approved platform to post on FR is Linux.
Many of the most prominent industrialists during the Hitler administration tried the same thing; it didn’t save them.
The impulse to feed the alligator remains, nonetheless.
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