Mabus to advise Obama on Middle East issues

[Ethelk2044]

JACKSON, Miss. --Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Clinton administration, is joining Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign as an unpaid adviser on Middle Eastern issues.

Mabus told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he'll also travel around the nation to make campaign appearances for the Illinois senator.

"I think that Obama, more than anybody else, has a chance to unify this country," Mabus said. "This country has been so divided, particularly by this administration, that I think (Obama) is talking about problems in a different way. I think he's a new voice from a new generation. That's what America needs now."

Mabus, now 58, was Mississippi governor from January 1988 to January 1992, serving during a slump in the state's economy. While supporters praised his efforts to move Mississippi's schools off the bottom of national rankings, opponents said he left a state budget that was stretched too thin.

Mabus lost his 1991 re-election bid to blunt-spoken contractor Kirk Fordice, who became Mississippi's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.

Mabus was governor when another young Democrat, Bill Clinton, was governor of Arkansas. After Clinton became president, he appointed Mabus to the ambassadorship. Mabus held the job in Saudi Arabia from 1994-96.

Now, Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, is running for president.

Asked why he's not supporting Hillary Clinton, Mabus said: "This is about being for somebody and not about being against anybody."

http://www.sunherald.com/306/story/59759.html

[bananas]

1. Isn't "Mabus" the name of the antichrist? nt

[Silence Dogood]

4. I'm an Obama supporter and the similarities are upsetting to me-

Jesus was hold old when he died? 43

Obama is how old? 43

Revelations predicts an Apocalypse after 7 yrs of War? We're pretty close to that now.

I would like someone to put my mind at ease, if you have any information to dispute what seems to be obvious. Please post it here.





SD

[IndianaGreen]

5. The Bible is full of shit! You are better off believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Our problem is that we have a tyrant in the White House that sees himself as an agent of GAWD, i.e., the little voices inside his head.

[HeeBGBz]

7. Jesus was supposedly 33 when he died

Mabus was a Nostradamus thing.

[Silence Dogood]

2. "And a great Orator cometh" book of Revelations

and Bush, the false Prophet?

[Zynx]

3. Dude should seriously get a name change.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Best advise to Obama on Middle East: Stay away from Israel Lobby!

Support an American foreign policy for the Middle East, not one of rubber stamping Israel's crimes and enabling the irrational Israeli settlers.