DNC tribute Vets (used Russian Military Photos)

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

It just keeps getting better. Only the DNC could put together a tribute to America's military and use pictures of the Russian Navy. For gos sake do those clowns ever get near the flag, military or honest work with messing it up.

They were so busy beating up Mitt about not mentioning Vets, but they honored the Russian Navy LOL.

My link

Democrats apologized Wednesday for using a fleet of Russian warships as the backdrop for a Democratic National Convention tribute to U.S. military veterans, blaming a vendor for the mistake.

The event occurred on the final night of last week’s convention when retired Adm. John Nathman paid tribute to veterans, in front of a gigantic screen that showed four ships from the Russian Federation Navy.

“Due to vendor error, incorrect images appeared briefly on screen behind 51 veterans during the convention, and the (Democratic National Convention Committee) apologizes for this mistake,” the group said in a statement.

The DCCC also asked that the error not diminish the words of Nathman and others who touted President Obama's record on “issues that impact those who have served our nation.”

However, the group used the apology to criticize Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, whom they said “failed to even mention” veterans in his convention speech.”

The mistake was exposed earlier this week by at least two experts who told The Navy Times they were certain the ships were Russian and that the backdrop image appears to be a composite photo that includes U.S. trainer jets flying overhead.

The image shows ships with radar designs not used in the U.S. fleet.

Navy veteran Rob Barker reportedly detected the mistake and notified the publication. He said his assignment as an electronics warfare technician included the identification of foreign ships by their radars.

“The ships are definitely Russian,” said author Norman Polmar, a naval and aviation expert. “There’s no question of that in my mind.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/12/dems-apparently-used-russian-war-ship-in-convention-tribute-to-vets/#ixzz26TxG8pIf

[Penny Lane 8,159]

More DNC talk? Poor RNC, so neglected even by its base.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

"I could never wrap my head around"

Don't worry you'll make it. Let me know I know how to dial 911.

Edited September 14, 2012 by Pinocchio Liberal

[Penny Lane 8,159]

"I could never wrap my head around"

Don't worry you'll make it. Let me know I know how to dial 911.

What?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Didn't somebody already post this?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/388418-dimocrats-honor-russian-warships-at-their-convention/page__view__findpost__p__5679166

Edited September 15, 2012 by The Patriot

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Some people don't pay attention.

Kind of like how they ignored the RNC even happened.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Didn't somebody already post this?

http://www.visajourn...ost__p__5679166

I am sorry my secretary for Visa Journey subjects forgot to tell me this had already been posted

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I will say only this, and this only.

My father was a combat veteran of WW2, seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, recovered and went on to finish a career in military and meet Russians at the Elbe river, and lived long enough to be ignored by his fellow Americans for his service. He did not live long enough to see a memorial to the war he fought. What a crime!

The US could do well to learn the respect FSU people have for their veterans, particularly those of the "second war" or "Great Patriotic War" as they call it. The men that are left, not many anymore, still wear their medals on their clothes and everyone opens doors for them and JUMPS up from a bus seat to offer them their seat with a sincere "Spacebo Zedushka!" (Thank you Grandfather!)It is an honor to stand on a bus for that man (or woman)to have your seat. There is nothing "communist" or "Soviet" about it, these are men who were young men, even just boys, who saw the most horrible carnage ever visited on one group of people by another and they did not even have a safe home to go to, they had no feeling that their family was safe, in many cases as they fought (as far from their homes as our men were) their families were raped and brutalized and summarily shot, their homes razed to the ground so that if they lived they returned to ...nothing. Everything in the entire country...broken. So then they fixed it. No Marshall plan in the Soviet Union.

I wish we could have that respect for our veterans, because of them, BECAUSE OF THE MEN WE OFTEN IGNORE...we have never experienced such a thing here and have not generated that level of respect. Criminally ironic in my opinion.

[Pooky 3,809]

Not to mention that the jets in the same background, although made in the USA, they're Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighters, look suspiciously like a formation flown by the Turkish Stars aerobatic display team (think the Blue Angels with a little less polish and a manic, barely understandable announcer)

[james&olya 1,121]

I will say only this, and this only.

My father was a combat veteran of WW2, seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, recovered and went on to finish a career in military and meet Russians at the Elbe river, and lived long enough to be ignored by his fellow Americans for his service. He did not live long enough to see a memorial to the war he fought. What a crime!

The US could do well to learn the respect FSU people have for their veterans, particularly those of the "second war" or "Great Patriotic War" as they call it. The men that are left, not many anymore, still wear their medals on their clothes and everyone opens doors for them and JUMPS up from a bus seat to offer them their seat with a sincere "Spacebo Zedushka!" (Thank you Grandfather!)It is an honor to stand on a bus for that man (or woman)to have your seat. There is nothing "communist" or "Soviet" about it, these are men who were young men, even just boys, who saw the most horrible carnage ever visited on one group of people by another and they did not even have a safe home to go to, they had no feeling that their family was safe, in many cases as they fought (as far from their homes as our men were) their families were raped and brutalized and summarily shot, their homes razed to the ground so that if they lived they returned to ...nothing. Everything in the entire country...broken. So then they fixed it. No Marshall plan in the Soviet Union.

I wish we could have that respect for our veterans, because of them, BECAUSE OF THE MEN WE OFTEN IGNORE...we have never experienced such a thing here and have not generated that level of respect. Criminally ironic in my opinion.

+100

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I will say only this, and this only.

My father was a combat veteran of WW2, seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, recovered and went on to finish a career in military and meet Russians at the Elbe river, and lived long enough to be ignored by his fellow Americans for his service. He did not live long enough to see a memorial to the war he fought. What a crime!

The US could do well to learn the respect FSU people have for their veterans, particularly those of the "second war" or "Great Patriotic War" as they call it. The men that are left, not many anymore, still wear their medals on their clothes and everyone opens doors for them and JUMPS up from a bus seat to offer them their seat with a sincere "Spacebo Zedushka!" (Thank you Grandfather!)It is an honor to stand on a bus for that man (or woman)to have your seat. There is nothing "communist" or "Soviet" about it, these are men who were young men, even just boys, who saw the most horrible carnage ever visited on one group of people by another and they did not even have a safe home to go to, they had no feeling that their family was safe, in many cases as they fought (as far from their homes as our men were) their families were raped and brutalized and summarily shot, their homes razed to the ground so that if they lived they returned to ...nothing. Everything in the entire country...broken. So then they fixed it. No Marshall plan in the Soviet Union.

I wish we could have that respect for our veterans, because of them, BECAUSE OF THE MEN WE OFTEN IGNORE...we have never experienced such a thing here and have not generated that level of respect. Criminally ironic in my opinion.

Awesome post