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Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet… Yet He Still Does?
publiusforum.com ^ | 09/28/08 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 09/28/2008 6:55:13 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

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.

Radio host Glenn Moberg of the show "Route 51" asked Mr. Jopek, a man who believes in the efforts in Iraq and is not in favor of Obama's positions on the war, what he and his ex-wife think of Obama continually using their son's name on the campaign trail....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; barackobama; elections; jopek; military
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This is outrageous. It went from Obama being like a teenager saying "me too, me too" to now he is a major creep using this kid's life against his parent's wishes!!

And WHY has the media ignored this?

1 posted on 09/28/2008 6:55:13 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092322/posts


2 posted on 09/28/2008 6:55:52 AM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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And WHY has the media ignored this?

C'mon now. You know why.

3 posted on 09/28/2008 6:58:34 AM PDT by brewcrew
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To: Mobile Vulgus

If this is true we need to get the word out there!


4 posted on 09/28/2008 6:59:14 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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I wonder which excuse he will use—sloppy staff work or racist attack?


5 posted on 09/28/2008 7:04:18 AM PDT by Moorka
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Barama: “let me be clear, I have said repeatahdly, that I misread the name on the bracelet”


6 posted on 09/28/2008 7:06:51 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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Obama is a marxist monstrocity to our military and the whole nation...and the MSM, our own American Pravda, are protecting him.

How dare he sit there and use that brave boy's braceclet against the express wishes of the family?

It is up to us to get this word out through email cahins, forums, our own web sites, talk radio, and word of mouth.

Including word about Obama's own direct involvement in the root cause of this financial crisis.

OBAMA IS IMPLICATED IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES

7 posted on 09/28/2008 7:08:28 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Oh dear Lord! He made this out to be like he was given that bracelet by the family!!

Creep. Just plain jerky behavior.


8 posted on 09/28/2008 7:09:31 AM PDT by autumnraine (McCain/Palin 08)
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How did Obama get this bracelet?


9 posted on 09/28/2008 7:10:31 AM PDT by Rudder
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This is absolulety OUTRAGEOUS!!! Yet the MSM ignores it???

Imagine if John McCain did something against a family's wishes,,,,

for no other reason than his personal, phony political gain??

This is disgusting--yet the MSM ignores it!

10 posted on 09/28/2008 7:12:07 AM PDT by stockstrader (VOTE DEMOCRATIC--it's so much easier than thinking.)
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The media already goes nuts when McCain uses some silly song without the artists “approval”


11 posted on 09/28/2008 7:14:54 AM PDT by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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If this is true we need to get the word out there!

This unbelievably phony, bogus, transparent effort at MANUFACTURED COMPASSION should be the 'debate moment' that the MSM (and everyone) is talking about.

Yet, we hear nothing but crickets. THAT, simply put,,,

is why Hussein will be our next President. It is sickening.

12 posted on 09/28/2008 7:15:06 AM PDT by stockstrader (VOTE DEMOCRATIC--it's so much easier than thinking.)
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If true let the ex-wife and mother of the soldier come out and say so. Then we might have something. Right now it’s just hearsay.


13 posted on 09/28/2008 7:15:32 AM PDT by jokyfo ("OBAMA" is Arabic for "CIPHER" and Farsi for "VACUUM")
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letters to editor time.


14 posted on 09/28/2008 7:15:49 AM PDT by WOSG (Change America needs: Dump the Pelosi Democrat Congress!!!)
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he is the third antichrist.


15 posted on 09/28/2008 7:17:08 AM PDT by television is just wrong (liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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they don’t want MORE publicicity!


16 posted on 09/28/2008 7:17:18 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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The media already goes nuts when McCain uses some silly song without the artists “approval”

And the media ignores when Hussein reaches into his BOTTOMLESS PIT OF PHONY, MANUFACTURED CONCERN for the troops,,,

when Hussein's very actions of 'GIVING AID-AND-COMFORT TO OUR ENEMIES DURING TIME OF WAR'----with his incessant and repeated calls for withdrawal before the job is done--

has prolonged the war and caused more troops to die!!

Hussein is shameless--absolutely SHAMELESS!!

17 posted on 09/28/2008 7:18:35 AM PDT by stockstrader (VOTE DEMOCRATIC--it's so much easier than thinking.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Hey RUSH!
Hey GLENN BECK!

Time to get the word out!!!


18 posted on 09/28/2008 7:19:38 AM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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Write letters to the editor...


19 posted on 09/28/2008 7:19:40 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

I wish I could say what I wanted to here but I’ll leave it at this.

BHO is without a doubt the most vile peice of human slime it has ever been my DISPLEASURE to endure. It’s bad enough his total hatred and utter disregard for anything American but, his total disrespect and contempt for our soldiers, their families and the American military in general makes me want to vomit sometimes. He has AB-SO-LUTLY NONE of the qualities it takes to be the President of our great country.


20 posted on 09/28/2008 7:20:25 AM PDT by Rebel Wolf
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