Posted on 09/27/2008 12:04:59 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
In recent memory, every presidential debate eventually distills down into a few catchphrases. Al Gore became known for his sighs and love of lockboxes. John Kerry actually served in Vietnam. Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy.
Barack Obama has a bracelet, too.
That inartful comeback will likely filter out through the political ether in the days ahead. What might not filter through our partisan press is that shortly after pointing out that, like John McCain, Obama sports a bracelet given to him by a military family, the Democratic candidate had to stop and look at it to find out the name of the soldier he's honoring.
That soldier is Ryan David Jopek. Barack Obama doesn't appear to have known that fact.
Here's his complete line:
"Jim, let me just make a point. I've got a bracelet too. From, Sergeant, uh, uh, from the mother of, uh, Sergeant, Ryan David Jopek."
Had a Republican, say Sarah Palin, made this gaffe, who wants to bet that we wouldn't hear this clip repeated endlessly during the post-debate spin shows and in the days ahead? How much would the sincerity of our hypothetical Republican politician be called into question.
I didn't hear it discussed once in the post-debate coverage. Did you?
Sidenote: Michelle Malkin reminds us that this incident is remarkably reminiscent of the now-famous incident of George H. W. Bush looking at his watch during the 1992 presidential debates.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It showed the American people that Obama is indeed a phony. Only wearing a bracelet as a campaign prop and then not even remembering the name on the bracelet? Someone probably gave it to him just before he went on stage. He hasn’t been wearing this thing very long, that’s for sure.
-housedeep
I thought, "Bush 41 looking at his watch moment".
It gave the impression that the only reason he is wearing the bracelet is just so he can tell a story for votes.
I thought the quote of the night, that highlights Obama’s total lack of judgement and naivety, was
“So we sit down with Iran and they say they’ll wipe Israel off the face of the map and we [Obama] say “no you won’t”.
This shows the vapid empty suit Obama for what he is. A worthless man in a nation that cares deeply about those fine men who defend us all.
For Obama, it's just scripted platitudes for our warriors. For McCain, it's a heartfelt and sincere acknowlegdement of those who give their all to keep us free.
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....
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I don’t think it matters. I think that this is going to be the rare case where the debates matter because even Zogby has said people don’t really know Obama. How can you know a void?
Wow! Talk about a blind squirrel finding an acorn!
I do have to give your Liberal friend some credit for taking off her Rose Colored Obama Glasses. That certainly takes courage.
...Meanwhile, I had to call a truce with one of my Christian Liberal friends due to some rather acrimonious email exchanges; I told her I'd rather not end our friendship over two men who probably wouldn't give us the time of day. And it's also one reason I refuse to discuss this with my mother.
“I’ve got a loverly bunch of coconuts.....”
“the Democratic candidate had to stop and look at it to find out the name of the soldier he’s honoring.”
Huh.
Guess it wasn’t “Seared....SEARED into his memory.”
He’s no John Kerry.
I can talk politics with this lib because she makes a point of telling me and everyone else that I'm one of the smartest people she knows, and she doesn't argue politics with me because "you know more than me."
Soon my takeover will be complete...and she's an ex-girlfriend, to boot!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The Bracelet Moment is a perfect distillation of 0bama.
Fraudulent concern that is little more than political posturing.
He has a bracelet, but he doesn’t even know the name on it.
But we’re supposed to believe that he really, really cares.
Just when I thought there could NEVER be a dem candidate as self-righteous and full of himself as Gore, along comes Kerry; when I thought HE was the worst they could do, they nominated Obama.
I work with people in their early twenties who think Carter is awesome. One is currently reading a book about Mao. Yes, I know, shocking, eh?
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It will be interesting to see what Sgt. Jopek's mother has to say about this, if anyone in the media get's around to asking her.
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