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Dubai Ports Company Hires Bob Dole As Lobbyist
The Moderate Voice ^ | 2-22-06 | Joe Gandelman

Posted on 02/22/2006 5:10:25 PM PST by Cagey

The Dubai company that's at the center of the controversy swirling around management of several American ports has hired former Majority Leader Bob Dole as its lobbyist to address the bipartisan uproar over the deal, CNN's Andrea Koppel reports: The 1996 Republican presidential candidate was "engaged" by Dubai Ports World shortly after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle began expressing their strong opposition to the deal, said Mike Galloway, an aide to the retired senator.

He is considered a GOP elder statesman, and his wife, Elizabeth, now represents North Carolina in the Senate.

Dole is a special counsel in the Washington office of the law firm Alston & Bird. DP World hired the firm in 2005 to help shepherd its purchase of the British-based firm Peninsular and Oriental, which currently manages the U.S. ports, Galloway said.

Dole is, of course, an experienced politico, a longtime inside-the-beltway insider and someone who still reportedly has some clout within his party.

He is also an experienced salesman who hawked Viagra on television for awhile.

He will have his work cut out for him: members of both parties are concerned that the port deal could do to America's port security what Viagra helps people do...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bobdole; uae; viagra
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1 posted on 02/22/2006 5:10:26 PM PST by Cagey
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To: Cagey

What about the Carlye Group and The Order of the Knight Templars? ;)


2 posted on 02/22/2006 5:11:43 PM PST by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things" - Pres. Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: Cagey

Got to give these guys a hand.....


badum pam


3 posted on 02/22/2006 5:11:49 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: Cagey

I think what we once considered the leadership of our country, including Bush, have lost touch with reality and the pulse of the common, general public.


4 posted on 02/22/2006 5:11:55 PM PST by Cornpone (Who Dares Wins -- Defame Islam Today -- Tell the Truth About Mohammed)
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To: Cagey

Loaded up on Viagra and now making his way as a man-whore.


5 posted on 02/22/2006 5:12:03 PM PST by Abcdefg
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To: Cagey
Oh, that'll help.

Easy, boy.

6 posted on 02/22/2006 5:12:50 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Dubai-u's fault--The Port Non-Issue is Hillary's Sistah Soulja moment)
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To: Cagey

7 posted on 02/22/2006 5:13:54 PM PST by mathprof
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Link to CNN's Report re: Bob Dole

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/22/port.security/index.html


8 posted on 02/22/2006 5:15:07 PM PST by Cagey ("Soldiers, keep by your officers. For God's sake, keep by your officers!")
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To: Cagey

The more disinformation I hear, the better I like the ports deal. It kind of puts things in perspective. The question in Washington is power not what happens to the people. Thats why George has wrecked the Beltway.


9 posted on 02/22/2006 5:15:14 PM PST by Steamburg (Pretenders everywhere)
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To: Cagey

That's just too easy.


10 posted on 02/22/2006 5:15:17 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: Cagey

Pikers, why didn't they get Kissinger. Thats right, he's too busy whoring for the Chicomms.


11 posted on 02/22/2006 5:15:24 PM PST by King Moonracer (All your exploding-head-deities are belong to us!)
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To: Cagey
Well, Viagra costs $80 for a 6-pack. I guess Lover Boy Bob has some pharmacy bills to pay up.

I always wondered how Bob Dole could afford multiple houses in nice places on his life-long legislator salary. Remember, at the time, his wife worked for the Red Cross, so if such luxuries are the benefit of heading up a charity, well...
...let's just say things don't look good.

12 posted on 02/22/2006 5:16:25 PM PST by Yossarian (The media is now simply running a 24/7 soap opera with Dubya cast as the arch villain.)
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To: Cagey

Jimmah would have done it for peanuts.


13 posted on 02/22/2006 5:16:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Cagey

Democrats and RINOs like Bob Dole are going to get us killed.

It makes sense though...the man thinks more about his penis...than the welfare of others.

Hmmm...kinda like a muslim.


14 posted on 02/22/2006 5:20:14 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: Cornpone

How so?

From what I have read of this deal, it does not threaten our national security in any way.

Rush made a great point today. Why spend $7 billion to blow up something that you can easily do for free?


15 posted on 02/22/2006 5:25:20 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe (North Texas Solutions http://ntxsolutions.com)
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To: Cagey
How many people turned them down before they scraped the bottom of the barrel to this depth?
16 posted on 02/22/2006 5:26:12 PM PST by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: Abcdefg

You mean a man-ho.


17 posted on 02/22/2006 5:26:31 PM PST by BunnySlippers
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ping


18 posted on 02/22/2006 5:27:31 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
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To: Cagey
Did the UAE hire Dole or Alston & Bird?
19 posted on 02/22/2006 5:29:23 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Condimaniac)
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To: Cagey
Urging Freepers to listen to Michael Savage because he is broadcasting about the port deal right now. New things he has raised today include: (1) Dubai would be granted oversight over U.S. military ports in Texas, (2) John Snow may have financial stake in Dubai port deal, and (3) Bob Dole was just hired by Dubai to lobby for port deal. Savage was ripping into Dole like a chain saw a minute ago. Read more reports critical about port deal here
20 posted on 02/22/2006 5:30:48 PM PST by ex-Texan (Matthew 7:1 through 6)
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