Do Democrats hate the U.S. Navy?

Published October 16, 2012 4:00am ET



A second Democratic campaign has been caught mistaking a foreign ship for a U.S. Navy vessel in images meant to brag on the candidate’s devotion to the military.

A month after the Democratic National Convention featured Cold War-era Soviet ships on a giant screen as a former Navy admiral representing the Obama campaign praised American veterans, the Democrat running for Senate in Connecticut featured a foreign sub in a television ad promoting his efforts to create jobs at the state’s sub-maker, General Dynamics’ Electric Boat of Groton.

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