Posted on 09/26/2008 9:59:08 PM PDT by steve0
Two strikes, Obama has 1 left before he is out. What a gaffe. If you can't remember the dead soldiers name just don't wear the bracelet, pandering politician. Where is your lapel pin now. Story about Kissinger denials will have legs for at least a day. Still a few in the drive-by media that will ask Obama and Kissinger about the real story regarding preconditions.
Keep the CHANGE.
I don’t have the seal yet.
I’ll bet there was an audible gasp in the Obama war room when he stumbled on the lost hero’s name on his bracelet.
Seriously, it would be a thousand times better if he remembered the soldier’s name and not worn a bracelet, because that would at least mean the man was actually in his thoughts.
Wearing the bracelet but not knowing the man’s name means he never actually thought about the man at all. Never once contemplated the meaning of the man’s sacrifice, but is only using the tragedy of the soldier’s passing to further his own political ambitions.
Is it true that Obama addressed McCain as “Tom,” at some point?
“Never once contemplated the meaning of the man’s sacrifice, but is only using the tragedy of the soldier’s passing to further his own political ambitions.”
Sure sums Barack up.
He’s been “out” since at least the first Larry Sinclair video...
It's late.
Yes.
He call John McCain, Jim. He was thinking of the host Jim Lehear. Love how BO talked and talked and talked especially real fast at the end to get all his memorized points dumped into the mic before his time was up.
I’m so nervous about the polls after this. While I think McCain performed brilliantly (”One would think if Sen. Obama really cared he would have gotten on a plane and gone to Afghanistan....Walk the walk...what Sen. Obama doesn’t understand, etc. etc.); I fear the average Joe missed McCain’s wit and the media will lead him/her by the nose to the Obama camp. Ugh. Kissinger needs to get out and publically scream that Obama misrepresented his comments. (i.e. parsed his words.)
And let me just say for the record, I hope Wall Street and Main Street meet somewhere down on that Bridge to Nowhere. Ugh how I hate catch phrases.
Seemed really craven. As in, ‘yeah, I checked that box, John.’ McCain definitely came across as authentic when talking about the troops, being around the troops, and caring about what they want, not what some left wing moonbats who’ve always loathed the military think the troops want.
McCain’s claim was that the troops wanted victory (and if Obama had his way they would have left in defeat, just like a certain other war that McCain himself knows well about). Nice dig by McCain at how he felt coming home from an earlier war that the Left fought hard to make the country lose. As always, McCain is an understated guy (though clear and direct). But I thought on that exchange he was really powerful.
The “John is absolutely right” statements have already been made into a McCain ad. They’ll have legs.
McCain was deadly. Obama never knew what hit him.
I gota a bracelet toooooo!!!!....
I got my shoes at Tom McCain...
It’s almost as if Obama’s handlers, knowing McCain was going to wear a bracelet, quickly gave one to Obama, figuring he’d at least look at it once before the debate, he probably figured just wearing it would be enough without having to refer to the name of the soldier.
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