Did the Matthew Stanley family ask McCain not to use the bracelet. I betcha McCain cleared with them ahead of time that it was okay to bring the bracelet up.
Or the Mom could be ecstatic about the use of the bracelet and her son, but the ex-husband was talking sh*tc.
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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.