[P-Marlowe]

He’s not “active duty” because he’s dead.

[Piquaboy]

Barry lie? Tell me it ain’t so.

[Theodore R.]

He can lie, but his supporters encourage lying.

[DataDink]

It actually is a mostly true story. See here.

[Notwithstanding]

Sgt. Ryan David Jopek
died while serving his country in Iraq.

[Corin Stormhands]

Others beat me to it, but the soldier is dead. Barry may use it as a prop, but he wasn’t lying.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=39206&archive=true

[Recon Dad]

Just google the name. He was a member of the National Guard.

[SE Mom]

He’s not active-duty any longer- he’s dead.

Before anyone goes off on a tangent about this they better be damned sure they have their facts.

Barry is not an honest man- but this is too easily verified for him to lie about it..

[gogov]

Good effort and good to have put it as a question. The left would have just plastered the story everywhere and the move-on. Shows FReepers have smarts enough to verify. Good Job!

[Bommer]

Sgt. Ryan David Jopek was killed in combat. His mom was a political junckie who saw McCain wear one, so she gave Barak her sons. If its means anything, when Obama looses the election, he’ll throw the braclet in the trash!

[Paperdoll]

Barack lied? Well, his lips moved didn’t they?

[diverteach]

I dunno about a braclet But I did see something yesterday that kinda shocked me.

Did anyone else see on FOX News yesterday as Odumbo arrived at Ole Miss? He stepped out of the SUV pulled out his suit on a hanger and flirted with the media there. Whenever the camera got a straight on shot he clearly had an earring in his left ear.

They replayed the clip a few times and I had to make sure that’s what I was seeing and I have NO DOUBT about it.

Not that I have anything against earrings, I have one myself in mt left ear but I’m not running for President and don’t believe the look is very Presidential.

[ETL]

Obama, last night at the debate, talked about a bracelet he had received from the mom of a deceased soldier who had urged him to bring the troops home immediately in order to get them out of harm's way. But what he didn't say is that his buddy and Annenberg Challenge partner, Bill Ayers, was given a ring by the North Vietnamese communists made from the metal of U.S. aircraft shot down over Vietnam. Planes not unlike those flown by John McCain. The 'gift' moved Ayers to tears.

From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' He said, 'I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html

______________________________________________________

POW John McCain

______________________________________________________

From HeroBracelets.org

Barack Obama is wearing a wristband in memory of a soldier killed in Iraq, given to him by a mother who said she wants the Democratic presidential candidate to keep others from dying.

Tracy Jopek of Merrill, Wis., gave Obama the bracelet at a rally Friday night in Green Bay, and Obama was still wearing it Saturday as he campaigned across the state before Tuesday’s primary.

The bracelet has her son’s name, Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, and the date the 20-year-old was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb, Aug. 2, 2006. “All gave some — He gave all,” it says. “She gave me this wristband, which I’m very grateful for,” Obama told the Green Bay audience, halting and lowering his voice from his normally upbeat presentation. “I meet mothers and family members all over the country who are still mourning their children but are also thinking about the young men and women who are still over there and wondering when it will end.”

...

She said she’s a Democrat who will vote for Obama in Wisconsin’s primary Tuesday. Like Obama, she said she was against the war from the start and had a hard time watching her son go to war.

http://herobracelets.org/?p=477

[mrsmith]

I don’t know the reason
You think I bear treason
I’ve something to show it’s this bracelet to you!
Yes it’s a real honor
To an American soldier
...How it got here I haven’t a clue!

Chorus:
Wasted away again in Liberalfantasyville...

[freekitty]

Maybe Obama’s truth goon squad should go after him.

[Martins kid]

Fact is...Obama did not remember Ryan’s name. He told McCain “..ah..ah... I’ve got a bracelet too! “ then he could NOT remember the name. He had to read it. How insulting! It was like watching a jealous kid on the playground.

[HardStarboard]

It would be interesting to know if Obama received his bracelet from a “Code Pink” mother.

I doubt that Obama wears a bracelet to commemorate the sacrifice of a soldier, but to commemorate the support of a leftist, America hating, street agitator group like Code Pinko.

[TBP]

I’m not sure BO is bright enough to make upthe name himself. Maybe some aide made it up for him.

[Doe Eyes]

Army Sgt. Ryan D. Jopek

[pepperhead]

Obama wears bracelet given to him by mother of soldier killed in Iraq

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/17/america/NA-POL-US-Obama-Bracelet.php