Soldier's Family to Obama: TAKE OFF THE BRACELET BARRY !!!

[SeniorChief]

Barack Obama played the "me too" game during the Friday debates on September 26 after Senator John McCain mentioned that he was wearing a bracelet with the name of Cpl. Matthew Stanley, a resident of New Hampshire and a soldier that lost his life in Iraq in 2006. Obama said that he too had a bracelet. After fumbling and straining to remember the name, he revealed that his had the name of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek of Merrill, Wisconsin.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/28/family-told-obama-not-wear-soldier-sons-bracelet-where-media

[Cat slave]

Just another "new low" for BO. What a huckster.

[asroc]

A new low for whom exactly?

Soldier's mother 'ecstatic' about Obama's bracelet

By DINESH RAMDE – 4 hours ago

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The mother of a Wisconsin soldier who died in Iraq says she was "ecstatic" when Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama mentioned during Friday's debate the bracelet she gave him in honor of her son.

Tracy Jopek of Merrill told The Associated Press on Sunday she was honored that Obama remembered Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, who was killed in 2006 by a roadside bomb.

Jopek criticized Internet reports suggesting Obama, D-Ill., exploited her son for political purposes.

"I don't understand how people can take that and turn it into some garbage on the Internet," she said.

Jopek acknowledged e-mailing the Obama campaign in February asking that the presidential candidate not mention her son in speeches or debates. But she said Obama's mention on Friday was appropriate because he was responding after Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, said a soldier's mother gave him a bracelet.

"I've got a bracelet, too, from Sergeant — from the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek, given to me in Green Bay," Obama said during the debate. "She asked me, 'Can you please make sure another mother is not going through what I'm going through?' No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided."

Jopek says Obama's comment rightfully suggested there's more than one viewpoint on the war.

She wouldn't directly say whether she wanted Obama to refrain from mentioning the bracelet again, but said she hopes the issue will just go away.

"I think these bracelets should be looked upon as an honor that both candidates wear them to respect the troops," Jopek said. "My request to both of them is that they honor the troops by lifting the conversation to the issues, and that they continue to live up to the standards our military deserves."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdsm_ntfH32sDoi1u_H9HYCDeaHAD93G1RBG0

[BlackAsCoal]

Once again the braindead on the right muted by FACTS

What morons

[asroc]

You know, a bigger man might have offered a mea culpa here.

[Moby]

A new low for whom exactly?



http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdsm_ntfH32sDoi1u_H9HYCDeaHAD93G1RBG0
Did you really expect someone like Senior to read the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help him God? The truth is so unpatriot when a Korean and an Australian have spent so much time and money making sure that people like him don't get it.

[SeniorChief]

You know, a bigger man might have offered a mea culpa here.

What do you know about being a man?

[asroc]

That it takes class and civility, and if you can exhibit either when tested.

[SeniorChief]

That it takes class and civility, and if you can exhibit either when tested.

You exhibit neither in these rooms, therefore, you get back what you dish out.

Dick.

[asroc]

Rooms?

.... what rooms?