"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".
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....
Continued:
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“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.
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.
I couldn’t believe Brit, Fred et al didn’t catch it, but as I recall, they didn’t catch Algore’s sighs the night of the debate either. It wasn’t till the next day that people started running with it. I couldn’t believe Fred actually said “no sound bytes from this one.” Welp... we’ll make sure Fred and all know what sound bytes WE heard, and that was the loudest of them all. Almost like someone laughing at the wrong point in a play and the entire audience and cast turning to stare at them.
Chriss Matthews brought out in an interview with Rachael Madcow that Obama on 8 different occasions agreed with McCain.
Matthews described this as Nixonian.
Nixon told John Kennedy he was right seven different times.
RummyChick posted a YouTube link on the debate thread. It is the portion of the debate that is being talked about all over the 'net tonight...
Notice at the very end when Obama says, “I've got a bracelet too”...
He has to LOOK at the bracelet for the NAME! You can see it clearly in the video.
Obama: “I’ve got a bracelet too, From, um... uh... (looks at bracelet) Sgt. uh... the mother of Sgt. Jopek(sp?).”
I've got a bracelet too - VIDEO AT YOUTUBE (Thanks to RummyChick):
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Poor Barry - he’s probably planned that bracelet as a prop with a humbling heart-wrenching eloquent story with the soldier’s name left off so every mother can think of her own son as he drags it out for all it’s worth.
Then McCain trumps it with a truly from-the-heart story, told from the heart of someone who knows what it is like to be in the midst of war, who knows what defeat feels like. That dead soldier was someone McCain could identify with, and it showed.
Poor Barry just couldn’t help himself. His story was better, dammit! So he had to get it in no matter how inept it looked.
Again, just a prop. I feel for the mother as well. Must be tough to think your gesture was wasted on such a shallow jerk.
Obama’s bracelet carries Mrs. Jopek’s son’s name, Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, and says Aug. 2, 2006, when he was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. He was 20 years-old. It says, ‘’All gave some — He gave all.”
Mrs. Jopek showed Obama a photo of Ryan smiling, dressed for battle. She said the Senator hugged her and her daughter, asked questions about her son, and told her how much he appreciated the bracelet.
‘’I wanted him to know my son’s name for one thing, for when he’s Commander-In-Chief.’’
Opps....0’s bad
” . . . and the bracelet was given to me by Cindy Sheehan who got it in the divorce from her deceased son’s father. . . “
