Posted on 09/28/2008 6:27:35 AM PDT by Jenzo
Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media? By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive) September 28, 2008 - 03:53 ET
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.
Shockingly, however, Madison resident Brian Jopeck, the father of Ryan Jopeck, the young soldier who tragically lost his life to a roadside bomb in 2006, recently said on a Wisconsin Public Radio show that his family had asked Barack Obama to stop wearing the bracelet with his son's name on it. Yet Obama continues to do so despite the wishes of the family.
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Truly Scum!
Didn't Obama say,SGT?
Never mind....need my coffee.
Don’t give scum a bad name. Pick something else ...
Obama is a liberal. Liberals do whatever is expedient. They have no shame.
He is a man without ANY moral principles....he is a Marxist and there is no truth for him...only the exertion of his own power. His red diaper upbringing, his abandonment issues by both parents and his total immersion in anti-American ideals as a young man and adult, has produced a very, very, very dangerous man.
He has been threatening people for a very long time. I have some personal accounts of this in Chicago. Yesterday, I drove by his old office, he had as state senator in Chicago. It is a disgrace. It is completely boarded up and abandoned. He has abandoned that neighborhood completely that he was supposed to be representing. There is a youth center across the street from this building that he once occupied. It is now is a potential danger for those young people as abandoned buildings attract all the wrong elements.
The McCain campaign and the 527s need to blow this up in his face. McCain should not mention it himself, but this could be the nail in the coffin for The One.
ping
Imagine how she feels now, that he had to fumble for the young man’s name and flaunted his bracelet like it was some fashion accessory that he was not going to be caught without. I up wid dat, I got me a bracelet too!
Wow, if I was the mom the Secret Service would have to stop me from flying at him. grrrrr
Perhaps the Viet Cong can provide BO with a name more fitting his profile.
This would be a major blow, BUT...
It would have to be done by the news media, not a 527. Remember the family didn’t want the bracelet to become a political hot potato, so they probably wouldn’t want McCain using Jopek’s name to destroy Obama, either.
Still. Wow. Just wow.
McCain wears a bracelet with Cpl. Stanley’s name, Obama has Sgt. Jopek on the bracelet he wears.
I’m not a bit suprised but I am nonetheless completely disgusted
McCain should just say - “Senator Obama, a bracelet on your wrist doesn’t mean anything if you don’t bother visiting our troops when your in Europe. Your bracelet doesn’t mean anything if you’d make their sacrifice meaningless by turning our victory in Iraq into a defeat by pulling out too soon. I’ve worn this bracelet for a long time, and it reflects my lifelong commitment to your troops, and my empathy and understanding for their sacrifice to out country. You’ve worn that bracelet for a short time, Mr. Obama, and frankly, I think it is a good symbol for you as well, it reflects that fact that you wear your commitment to our troops on your sleeve.
That’s such disrespect on Obama’s part.
If you bring up an "issue" with a career politician, how can you expect it not to be used politically ?
Yes, this needs to be a 527 ad. With the father if possible to reinforce the fact that scumbag Obama will use people for political gain. That is not the person you want as CIC or in the presidency. This is something that would be an uproar had a Republican done it. We need to engage in war with the press. They are getting away with too much and Republicans/conservatives need to take the opportunity they get with them to question the media in their handling of this extremely activist campaign. THE MEDIA IS NOT BEYOND REPROACH AND QUESTION.
Sounds like family needs to report a stolen bracelet. Last seen in the possession of BHO.
Send that to the McCain campaign...brilliant posting!!
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