Obama to Shore Up' Navy?

[simple man]

Talk about your "ship-to-ship" [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/sick.gif[/img]

Gay Man for Navy Secretary?
Newsweek
By Jessica Bennett and Daniel Stone

As gay activists protest the selection of evangelical megapastor Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation, they could have reason to cheer a future Obama announcement. Sources tell NEWSWEEK that the president-elect is considering the appointment of the first openly gay chief of a military branch.

Bill White, president of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, is being backed by congressional and former military leaders to be the next secretary of the Navy. Among White's vocal supporters are retired Gen. Hugh Shelton, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat whose district includes the newly renovated Intrepid museum which sits on an aircraft carrier in the Hudson River. Nadler says members of Obama's transition team have reached out to him about White. "They're clearly vetting him," he tells NEWSWEEK ([img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/sick.gif[/img]What is "vetting"?).....
Though he's never served in the military, backers say White has extensive contacts in the armed forces through his role with the Intrepid Museum and the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a $100 million nonprofit set up to help military families and wounded vets. White also serves as a trustee of the Fisher House Foundation, which provides free housing at military and veterans hospitals for families who want to be near the recovery process. Reached by telephone, a spokeswoman for White said he would not be commenting, but has considered his work with the armed forces "truly the highest privilege."



http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/power...secretary.aspx

[imported_elp6n]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: simple man</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/sick.gif[/img]What is "vetting"?
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You're not serious are you?

[PVVikeFan]

This may be enough to make a couple of people here want to go join up [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img] [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

[simple man]

Raght up front- Ah CAINT swim. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

[simple man]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elp6n</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: simple man</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/sick.gif[/img]What is "vetting"?
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You're not serious are you? </div></div>
No ,I'm not Serious....I'm Simple- serious is a cousin or something. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img] Simple it's ...mmmm right on the name tag. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

[PVVikeFan]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elp6n</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: simple man</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/sick.gif[/img]What is "vetting"?
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You're not serious are you? </div></div>

The only thing "serious" about him is his condition [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

[simple man]

I might not do much, but I have a good time. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

[1inStripes]

This was playing in the background of the announcement.'

YouTube - In the Navy

[Milk3]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 722</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This was playing in the background of the announcement.'

YouTube - In the Navy </div></div>
haha
Classic

[Shooter]

A gay man with no military experience as the Secretary of the Navy. Good move Obama. Almost as good as saying Clinton has no foreign policy skills and making her secretary of the State.