Soldiering on for Wesley Clark

More importantly, America won!

Out with the chickenhawks from Congressional leadership. In with war hero Charlie Rangel at House Ways & Means, war hero Jack Murtha at Defense Appropriations, war hero Dan Akaka at Senate Veterans Affairs, veteran Jeff Bingaman at Energy, war hero (and Medal of Honor winner) Daniel Inouye at Commerce & Science, and others to important leadership roles too many to name. Welcome to a new generaltion of veterans, the Fighting Dems, most of whom ran and won in districts where they were told they didn't have a change against entrenched Republican incumbents, many of whom came closer to winning than anyone thought they had a right to expect and will be strong candidates in 2008 and leaders in their communities for years to come.

And speaking of 2008...

Wes Clark posted this to his blog today:

A short article from New York Magazine about some of the real heros of the mid-terms. Let's hope the DNC and other Dems can learn a lesson about playing offense instead of defense and not being afraid to hit hard.

Swift-Boat Revenge
How one New Yorker beat Republicans at the attack-ad game. by Geoffrey Gray

(Photo: Todd Selby)

They weren’t as famous as the stem-cell ads with Michael J. Fox, but the anti-Republican spots created by Jon Soltz (who served in Iraq as a captain in the Army), and his New York–based group VoteVets.org, also seemed to have hit their targets.

They come down to a lot more than oil .

In an op/ed published in USA Today, Wes Clark briefly defined what he means by US interests as "dissuading Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons and its hegemonic aspirations, providing security assurances for the rapidly developing Arab Gulf states and working with our friends in the Middle East to ensure access to oil resources and regional stability."