The company recently began an advertising effort to rehabilitate its reputation and recast itself as an all-American operation.
But it was carefully orchestrated political stagecraft from campaign operatives trying to recast Clinton – the most famous woman in American politics and a polarising figure on both left and right – for the 2016 presidential contest.
Whereas the Tea Party has worked relentlessly since the financial crash to recast the Republican party as a perceived challenger to Wall Street, Democrats such as Obama and his potential successor Hillary Clinton rely heavily on financial donors and have veered away from confrontation.
What the new treaty will mean for Russia-Africa relations and their arms deals remains to be seen, but Russia's military deals with Africa have shifted in recent years and the time may be right to recast this relationship.
Imagine Jonah Lomu recast as a close-quarter forward threat and you get a rough idea of Collins at his unstoppable best.
The 1,000-mile 1,000-milethat broadhtripinthatfrom her home in Chappaqua, New York, to north-eastern Iowa, was a clever piece of political stagecraft designed to recast the image of the world's most famous female politician as an everyday American.
But enthusiasts imagine something like this will recast the entire financial system.
Though senior Democrats have turned up the populist rhetoric recently, this is the party Bill Clinton recast as one that was friendly to business.
Ms Le Pen's efforts to recast the Front as a party of power not protest have been carefully plotted.
But three times in as many weeks Barack Obama has dragged them out dazed and blinking before the Klieg lights: first for an arms treaty with Russia, then to recast America's own policy and now for a summit in Washington, DC.
After September 11th 2001, however, he was recast as a provider of relative stability in a dangerous neighbourhood, and an essential ally in the "war on terror".
