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Obama nominates former Miss. gov as Navy secretary
SUN HERALD ^ | March 27, 2009 | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

Posted on 03/27/2009 3:33:00 PM PDT by Islander7

JACKSON, Miss. -- President Barack Obama on Friday nominated former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus to be secretary of the Navy, choosing a political supporter with a two-year career in the service.

Mabus, 60, is a Democrat and campaigned extensively for Obama last year. He had been previously talked about as a candidate for a place in Obama's cabinet as secretary of education.

If confirmed, Mabus would succeed Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter. The secretary is the civilian leader of the service and is responsible for a wide range of duties, from recruiting and mobilizing to overseeing the construction and repair of ships, equipment and facilities.

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Ray Mabus and the Haitian dictator

American Thinker Blog quotes from today’s Wall Street Journal in an article that implicates Ray Mabus — foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama, Clinton’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia (glad he took care of those problems), and former Mississippi governor whom Kirk Fordice saved us from — in a telecom deal with other Democrats to rip-off the Haitian people in concert with their strongman dictator Jean Bertrand Aristide. This is from the Wall Street Journal piece:

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Democrats for Despotism Party figures had a profitable relationship with Haiti's dictator.

Haitians continued alleging that well-connected Americans were conspiring to rip off their impoverished country, and I kept writing about it. But the FCC did nothing until December 2006, when the IDT whistleblower asked the FCC for the Haiti file with the contracts. Lo and behold, the FCC said that the file had disappeared from its records room.

When the FCC asked carriers to help it reconstruct the file, Fusion produced the 1999 document. But when I filed to see it under the Freedom of Information Act, the company spent 11 months fighting my request.

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Governor's Reformist Image May Hinge on Party Dispute

A simmering dispute here over leadership of the state's Democratic Party is threatening to tarnish the progressive and reformist image of Gov. Ray Mabus by raising the specter of racial politics three months after he took office.

At issue is Mr. Mabus's attempt to oust the party's acting state chairman, Ed Cole, who hopes to become the first black Democrat to lead a state party.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bhodod; democrats; mabus; mississippi; navy; obama; raymabus
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This is not good news. Mabus is a Koolaid drinking 0bama hack.
1 posted on 03/27/2009 3:33:01 PM PDT by Islander7
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2 posted on 03/27/2009 3:33:42 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

Is Mabus gay? Wasn’t there a rumor about such? (I remember the stories about Bill Allain, too.)


3 posted on 03/27/2009 3:35:58 PM PDT by petitfour
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I wonder if Team Obamacorn remembered to check this joker for back taxes. Should be interesting since the guy is a DemocRAT. It’s good to see that Obama is taking care of his “flock” by making sure they all have good jobs.


4 posted on 03/27/2009 3:37:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Mom always said, "Never just anyone whose name can't be spelled backwards." Like Soros.)
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Is Mabus gay?

I never heard that. He was Mississippi’s version of Bill Clinton.

Thank God for Kirk Fordice, rest his soul.


5 posted on 03/27/2009 3:38:09 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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Nostradamus for Navy Secretary? He doesn’t have any experience in that, does he?


6 posted on 03/27/2009 3:39:30 PM PDT by TheRiverNile
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I don’t know where I got that. Probably something a family member once said, and it’s probably just nonsense. Mabus served in the Navy.


7 posted on 03/27/2009 3:40:42 PM PDT by petitfour
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The List, ping


8 posted on 03/27/2009 3:43:35 PM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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If confirmed, Mabus would succeed Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter.

If confirmed, Mabus would succeed acting Secretary of the Navy BJ Penn who assumed the office when Winter resigned on the 13th of March.

090313-N-5549O-020 WASHINGTON (March 13, 2009) Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter shakes hands with acting Secretary of the Navy the Honorable BJ Penn as he departs the Pentagon one last time after officially resigning from his duties as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien/Released)

9 posted on 03/27/2009 3:45:25 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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Oh, good. A NAVSEC with two entire years in service. By Obama’s standards that makes him a grizzled vet, I suppose. Pray for the sailors and Marines.


10 posted on 03/27/2009 3:48:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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I don’t know where I got that. Probably something a family member once said, and it’s probably just nonsense. Mabus served in the Navy.
Thanks, I didn't know. Looking at the bio:

Governor of Mississippi
U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia under Clinton
Clarion Ledger's "Governor of the Millineum"
Senior Advisor to Obama's campaign
Founder of Help & Hope
Member- RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy
Council on Foreign Relations (of course)
Considered an Expert on the Middle East

11 posted on 03/27/2009 3:50:14 PM PDT by TheRiverNile
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“former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus to be secretary of the Navy — No, this is not good news!!!!” In fact, this just ruined my weekend!

This guy is not qualified to lead the worlds finest Navy!

Dear God, please, do not let Ray Mabus destroy the U.S. Navy! Please God, I’m begging you!


12 posted on 03/27/2009 3:51:18 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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Remember the old Gilbert & Sullivan tune "Queen's Navy" from the opera H.M.S. Pintafore?
13 posted on 03/27/2009 3:51:45 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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You’ve got me there. I believe I’m too young.


14 posted on 03/27/2009 3:55:43 PM PDT by TheRiverNile
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To: Islander7
I think that you meant that Fordice was mirror image.
15 posted on 03/27/2009 3:56:32 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." Dr. Adrian Rogers 1931-2005)
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This is not good news. Mabus is a Koolaid drinking 0bama hack.

Well, yeah, what else would you expect?

16 posted on 03/27/2009 3:57:11 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Sorry, my complete thought got lost somewhere in cyberland.

What I meant to say was, that Fordice was Bill Clinton's mirror image.

17 posted on 03/27/2009 4:00:16 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." Dr. Adrian Rogers 1931-2005)
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only a person who thinks that being a community organizer is a qualification for being president would think that a 2 year navy career qualifies someone to be secretary of the navy.

not to denigrate his service, by any means, but honestly . . .

18 posted on 03/27/2009 4:10:53 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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President Barack Obama on Friday nominated former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus

So now we have it.....

.....If you are even thinking Nostradamus was possibly predicting the Anti-Christ, we have a Mabus with no interpretation or anagrams necessary right here in the Obama Administration.

Add to that the Mayan Calendar ending in 2012 and....well.....it's pretty creepy to think we could be seeing the real thing unfold.....

19 posted on 03/27/2009 4:12:31 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: TheRiverNile

The Clabber-Ledger is still being published? A typical Gannet rag.


20 posted on 03/27/2009 4:12:37 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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