UPDATE: THE FAMILY ASKED OBAMA TO STOP WEARING BRACELET(over at Newsbusters)
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 Jopek, the father of Ryan Jopek, 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.
If this doesn't make your skin crawl and your blood boil, I don't know what. What a nightmare.
I was enroute to DC and arrived late to my debate "party". I missed this. Bubba thanks for letting me know. Geraghty nails it over at NRO:
Did Obama Have a 'Bush Looking At His Watch' Moment Tonight?
I wonder if we had a "Bush looking at his watch" moment tonight.
After McCain talked about the bracelet from the mother of a slain soldier, Obama mentioned that he had one, too.
Unfortunately, it would seem that he didn't have the name of the solder, Ryan David Jopek (sp?), quite on the tip of his tongue. He seems to have to read the name off the bracelet:
Obama: Jim, let me just make a point. I've got a bracelet, too.
(Looks up, adjusts wrist, looks down at wrist)
Obama: From sergeant... uh.. (adjusts wrist) uh, from the mother of sergeant Ryan David Jopek (phonetic). Given to me in Green Bay. And she asked me, can you please make sure another mother isn't going through what I'm going through?
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poseur!!
Posted by: kaps | Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 08:06 PM
If you missed much of the debate and want to see it, Pamela, I have posted the whole uninterrupted video and transcript at Indigo Continuum.
Posted by: Indigo Red | Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 04:35 AM
Accoring to NewsBusted Barack has been urged to NOT wear the braclet...
Shockingly, however, Madison resident Brian Jopek, the father of Ryan Jopek, 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.
NewsBusted
Posted by: Aristide | Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 08:20 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrK_PQjNxu0
http://www.cafepress.com/gopalingo.311233234
http://www.therealitycheck.org/2008/09/28/family-told-obama-not-to-wear-soldier-sons-bracelet%E2%80%A6-yet-he-still-does/
Some more info for your blog.
Posted by: bubbanelson | Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Here are two clips
:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-0BRw0U38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFo5Ky8YE8c
McCain pulls a Marshall McLuhan / Annie Hall moment!
Posted by: bubbanelson | Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 11:08 AM
two best moments: the uh, bracelet moment and, my personal favorite:
mccains' now let me get this straight....you're gonna sit down with (iranian leader) and he says he's going to destroy israel you say no you won't
"OH PLEASE"
GO MCCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: kobi | Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 01:29 PM