He's on the far right.
Posted on 12/17/2008 5:44:09 PM PST by melt
Some top retired military leaders and some Democrats in Congress are backing William White, chief operating officer of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, to be the next secretary of the Navy - a move that would put the first openly gay person at the top of one of the services.
The secretary's job is a civilian position, so it would not run afoul of the ban on gays serving in the military, but it would renew focus on the "don't ask, don't tell" policy as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office.
"He would be phenomenal," said retired Gen. Hugh Shelton, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, pointing to Mr. White's extensive background as a fundraiser for veterans' and military causes.
Retired members of the Joint Chiefs have contacted Mr. Obama's transition team to urge them to pick Mr. White, and members of Congress said he would be a good choice for a service secretary.
"He's very capable," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, whose district includes the Intrepid Museum, a retired aircraft carrier berthed on the Hudson River in New York City.
Mr. Nadler said Mr. White has become a friend of the military, and particularly the service members and their families, both through the Intrepid and through Fisher Houses, which offer a place to stay so families can be close to military members who are receiving medical care.
A spokeswoman for the Obama campaign said they won't comment on personnel decisions.
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It's the kind of thing that might cause Him to put the world's most powerful Navy under the waves.
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." - President Thomas Jefferson
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Just think of how much money the taxpayers will save when West Pacs are replaced by fudge packs.
‘Museum curators are by nature anal retentive types...’
Apparently this one especially.
...calls to mind a joke Mr. DiFazio (God rest his soul) told in 8th grade enlish class about two queers on a bridge. One says, "oh, look! there goes a ferry boat." the other says, "I didn't know we had a navy!"
Because we all know we need a sensitive fund-raiser at the top of an organization that is assembled to kill people and break things and react with ultimate violence to defend and preserve our Country and our Constitution..... /sarc
/johnny
He's on the far right.
Just like a liberal. Blame those who won't compromise for the inevitable results of your own destructive compromise.
Go ahead and namecall. All you do is redouble my resolve to see your Whig Party on the ash heap of history where it belongs.
And yes... the Marine Corps is a Department of the Navy.... the Men's Department.
Credentials anyone? A museum director is ready to lead the fleets into battle? And they criticized Sarah Palin’s experience?
“Hey, sailor! yoo hoo!”
Liberals stand for buggery everywhere, all the time, but of course they don't like to admit that when they are trying to win elections outside of San Francisco.
So they LIE and prevaricate throughout their campaigns, and trick ordinary American voters into believing the lies on election day.
Once again liberals are dreaming of sodomy "In the NA-VY" (Village People).
At least I learned that Churchill's quotation about "rum, sodomy, and the lash" is apparently only apocryphal.... I'd heard that he said it, but when I searched on the quotation just now it seems that he never did say that:
"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash"
Shelton was a tool. He is a tool. And he will probably always be a tool. Anybody Clinton picked to lead anything in the military or national security was likely to be a non-fighter or more interested in social engineering than engineering victory for the U.S.
Kiss me Hardy.
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