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Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media?
Newsbusters ^ | September 28, 2008 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 09/28/2008 4:12:21 AM PDT by Tom_Busch

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

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008debates; bracelet; braceletgate; elections; jopek; mccain; nobama08; obama
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To: Roscoe Karns

LOL - That is priceless! I’m grateful when people put together photos like this. It helps to keep one’s spirits up in the face of dealing with people like Obama to laugh.


61 posted on 09/28/2008 5:07:53 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ Pro-Palin & NObama Gear : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Tom_Busch
As compared to....


62 posted on 09/28/2008 5:10:31 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: vwatto

“I’m beginning to think we’re living in a Soviet-style country in which the media is VERY one sided. Not controlled by the Dems, but they might as well be.

I agree with you. And factor in the Obama so-called ‘truth squads’ (read what’s going on in Missouri), and it truly smacks of control. Interestingly, last night on the local news (I live in Illinois near St. Louis) the St. Louis county prosecutor, a member the so-called Obama ‘truth squad’ used a whole bunch of words and a little ridicule to rebut the view that they were supposed to attack anyone who “didn’t tell the truth about Obama.” Then the reporter (local Fox News) interviewed someone who said McCain has a truth squad, too, and how much better it would be if a bipartisan group performed that function.

Draw your own conclusion.


63 posted on 09/28/2008 5:13:36 AM PDT by TrueFact
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To: Tom_Busch
He died on August 1, 2006 or more than two years ago. Funeral of Sgt. Ryan D. Jopek"

Tracy Jopek gave the bracelet to Obama in February 2008. Sounds like a setup. The link below is a Feb 18, 2008 story written long before the debates.

During their brief meeting with the Illinois senator, Jopek and her daughter showed him a picture of a smiling Ryan dressed for battle, the New York Times reported.

"Jopek, a Democrat who will vote for Obama in Wisconsin's primary on Tuesday, has been against the war from the start, the paper said."

''And it's not over for us until this war is over. I just don't want any more soldiers to die in vain for something that we can't solve,'' she told the paper."

"Jopek, a self confessed political junkie, told the New York Times that she had noticed Republican presidential candidate John McCain wearing a similar bracelet."

"McCain, the Arizona senator, received the bracelet from the mother of Corporal Matthew Stanley, who was also killed in Iraq, and he has been wearing it ever since."

I wonder if this bracelet business was a set up by the Obama campaign who sought this woman out in order to counter the McCain campaign. I find it odd that she now doesn't want to talk, yet the story at the time as related to the NYT makes no bones as to why she asked Obama to wear it. Why the silence now? I suspect that there is much more to this story.

64 posted on 09/28/2008 5:15:03 AM PDT by kabar (.)
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To: vwatto
We are. My brother told me he watched the debate on CNN. Now remember 0bama actually told voters to specifically watch the debate on CNN. There was a thread here on FR the day before the debate.

My brother told me that CNN had Donna Brazille and Paul Begala using the dial method made famous by Frank Lusk's town hall style method where actual voters rate the debate, yet CNN was only using Brazille and Begala. So while the debate is going on these two Democrat operatives and Obama supporters were rating the winner real time.

He also said that Wolf Blitzer had Joe Biden on (I haven't confirmed this yet) and they were joking about the debate. At one point Wolf commented that they needed Sarah Palin there also to which the panelist responded with "good luck with that".

This is the most disgusting display by the media I have ever seen. I hope the American people reject this but who knows.

65 posted on 09/28/2008 5:15:08 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: gotribe
I wonder if mom and dad are divorced ala Cindy Sheehan?
66 posted on 09/28/2008 5:16:09 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: Tom_Busch

>>Where is Media?, <<

here you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg


67 posted on 09/28/2008 5:17:07 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Sarah Palin is NOT worried about anything being above her pay grade!)
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To: Tom_Busch

If the family was willing, this would make a great political ad to show Obama’s real character. This is the side voters need to know about.


68 posted on 09/28/2008 5:17:23 AM PDT by GBA
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To: G.Mason

“At least the ex had the intelligence to get rid of her ... I guess.”

I was going to say something similar, but you beat me to it.


69 posted on 09/28/2008 5:18:36 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer) ("We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.")
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To: Tom_Busch

If Obama is elected who will be in his Cabinet? Oprah Winfrey as Sec. of State, O.J. Simpson as Attorney General, Reverend Wright as .......... ?


70 posted on 09/28/2008 5:19:31 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: paudio

There actually used to be major-league newspapers which were known to favor Republicans editorially. I can’t think of any such today. Magazines like Time once leaned Republican. Today, most mass magazines and network broadcasting are Leftist propaganda organs. Aren’t there any conservatives with enough money to buy a major media outlet? Most undecided independent voters get all their “ideas” from these media. People like Rush and the other conservative or libertarian commentators and bloggers are mostly just preaching to the crowd, not changing minds.


71 posted on 09/28/2008 5:20:04 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: Allegra

See my post #64. The mother is not being truthful if you believe the story, written on February 18. 2008, is accurate. The mother is a self-described political junkie and Obama supporter. Supposedly, the mother came up with the idea after seeing McCain wearing a bracelet. I suspect that this is a concocted story, which is why the mother is now refusing to talk to the press. More than likely, it was the Obama campaign who came up with the idea for the bracelet.


72 posted on 09/28/2008 5:20:08 AM PDT by kabar (.)
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To: pleikumud

Ray Nagin as Sec. of Homeland Security?


73 posted on 09/28/2008 5:20:16 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: hershey

> Isn’t the news out yet that Obama is the Second Coming?
You do mean the Second Coming of Stalin don’t you?


74 posted on 09/28/2008 5:20:17 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: pleikumud

Barney Frank as Secretary of Sodomy and AIDS?


75 posted on 09/28/2008 5:21:24 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: Tom_Busch

The Senator from ILLINOIS chooses a Wisconsin soldier??? Pro’ly because the name was easier to remember. Whoops, blew that too. Why not a bracelet from a brave Illinois boy whose family is pleased with their representation in the Senate? Maybe they all said no.


76 posted on 09/28/2008 5:23:01 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (don't worry, they only want to take water out of the other guy's side of the bucket.)
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To: jacquej

Hoodoo ping


77 posted on 09/28/2008 5:24:30 AM PDT by VigilantAmerican (We will not waver, we will not tire; we will not falter, we will not fail)
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To: Admin Moderator

Thank you. You’re the best!


78 posted on 09/28/2008 5:24:41 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: Tom_Busch

It might be interesting to see any recent videos/pix of Obama and whether he has been wearing the bracelet previous to the debate.


79 posted on 09/28/2008 5:26:22 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Tom_Busch

The Messiah should not be questioned like this.


80 posted on 09/28/2008 5:26:34 AM PDT by omega4179 (Remember without the media, B.Hussein would not exist.)
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