I really like it, this is an excellent example of how Democrats should be fighting back in my opinion!

If ALL Democrats candidates would fight back this hard and smart, then winning elections would be a lot easier!

I had a few beers last night with a couple senior naval officers that worked for Admiral Sestak when he was in the pentagon. He's one hell of a guy.

"I have not yet begun to fight!" --John Paul Jones, Father of the United States Navy

And Joe is a great candidate.

This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.....Molly Ivins

Thanks Larry! :D

Straight forward, clean, clear, with a no room for argument.

Sestak just made rebutting a chicken hawk look extemely easy. Nice ad.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.--J. V. Marley 

insulted Sestak

Crazy Curt Insults Vets AGAIN <!-- begin content --><!-- node: "Crazy Curt Insults Vets AGAIN" --> by Taylor Marsh | Oct 20 2006 - 8:51pm 

It's not the first time and it won't be the last. It's just even more insulting because Crazy Curt dodged the draft, er... I mean, didn't wear the uniform.

But wait until you hear this. During the debate today between Curt Weldon and Joe Sestak, Crazy Curt's contempt for the U.S. military came spewing forth. I was given the quote below through someone who was at the debate.

When under pressure, the truth will out.

"Were you always in the admiral quarter drinking out of your wine goblets and being waited on by your sailor servants?" - Curt Weldon

 

Hey Curt, why don't you tell us how you really feel about veterans?

What a disgrace.

 

I like it as much at the one the IAVA did about the flack jackets.

That is a wonderful ad...Just a perfect response....

While watching Sestak's ad, I had an idea for a general ad for the Democratic party. There are some impressive Democrat vets running with outstanding military credentials: Sestak, Webb, etc.

Why not have a rolling ad listing all of the Democratic vets running for office - with their military credentials next to their pictures.

(It would be nice to challenge the GOP to do the same...:-)

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/19/acd.01.html

ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES

Aired October 19, 2006 - 22:00   ET

COOPER: Well, in the top ten list of things for politicians to avoid in an election season, sex scandal is pretty much right up there. So are FBI raids and allegations that you've used your influence to steer lucrative contracts to your daughter's company.

We've already updated you on the Foley scandal. Now the latest on Curt Weldon, a ten-term congressman under investigation by the Justice Department and facing a razor sharp race for reelection.

CNN's Joe Johns tonight is keeping them honest.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Moscow in January 2002, so what's a congressman from Pennsylvania doing in a place like this? Curt Weldon, one of the top Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, is also one of the Congress's biggest promoters of U.S./Russian relations. He's been to the country countless times.

In May of 2002 he was back in Russia leading this congressional delegation. Now, years later he's facing tough questions on the campaign trail and a Justice Department investigation issuing search warrants for evidence about whether he used his work on Russia to steer contracts to his daughter's company.

This is the story of how his daughter's company, Solutions North America, or SNA for short, got its first ever contract, a giant Russian energy form known as Itera, that very same year, 2002.

During that congressional trip to Moscow in May, Weldon meets with Itera management. Then in September of 2002, Karen Weldon, the congressman's daughter, and SNA tell the U.S. government they're registering to represent Itera in the U.S.

The plan was for SNA to do consulting, helping the Russian energy company find business, get contacts, basically what consultants normally do. Only in this case one of the consultants was the daughter of a U.S. congressman, and the congressman would later go to bat for his daughter's future client.

For example, that very same month, on September 24, Karen Weldon's company gets to work coordinating a dinner at the Library of Congress, a dinner hosted by her father, Congressman Weldon, and attended by Itera's CEO, along with about 30 House members and some Russian legislators. Then just two days after that on September 26, Congressman Weldon goes to the House floor gushing about the dinner, delivering a speech praising Itera and its CEO, calling it one of the rising companies in Russia.

Government records show the half million dollar contract with Itera was signed by Itera's CEO on September 30, just four days after Congressman Weldon's speech.

Itera declined comment, except to say it's cooperating with the investigation.

Weldon and his daughter deny wrongdoing. He says he never tried to steer Russian money to his daughter.

REP. CURT WELDON (R), PENNSYLVANIA: I would absolutely never use my position to help anyone in an unusual way, and my daughter -- my kids don't need my help. They're successful. They're talented. They do a good job, and that's -- I mean, that's what any father would say, and that's what I would say. You know, my daughter doesn't need my help now, and she never has.

JOHNS: Weldon has also accused the Democrats of playing a political dirty trick on him by leaking the investigation to the media, but the Republican-led Justice Department said there's no politics. Weldon's Democratic opponent in the reelection campaign also denies any involvement.

JOE SESTAK (D), PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: Look, the Republican Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, he doesn't invite me or my staff into his meetings. This is absurd.

JOHNS: Legal experts say cases like this are notoriously hard to prove, and Justice Department officials say this could take a long time to unravel. Translation: don't expect a resolution by election day, which leaves the matter in a legal limbo with potentially serious political consequences.

Joe Johns, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)