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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: itsthejourney
Sounds a lot like another Sheehan.

Code Pink 'Bundles' for Barack, 4/14/2008


Cindy Sheehan, Jodie Evans, Hugo Chavez,
Medea Benjamin [co-founder Code Pink]

"The co-founder of the radical anti-war group Code Pink [Jodie Evans] has “bundled” more than $50,000 for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and pro-troops groups are demanding that he return the money."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25997

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Revolution interview with ("Peace Mom") Cindy Sheehan: October 29, 2005:
['Revolution' is the official newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party]
http://rwor.org/a/021/cindy-sheehan-interview.htm

101 posted on 09/28/2008 6:07:59 AM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home page)
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To: Allegra
... And my state is solid red. That's a good thing because there's something funny going on with absentee ballots.
A few of us are digging into this now.


Please ping me what you find!
102 posted on 09/28/2008 6:11:53 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: vwatto

“I agree, but it’s never been THIS blatant. They were never fawning over Kerry or Gore like they are over 0. This is unprecidented.”

Well, that’s because Kerry and Gore were just prophets. 0 is “the One,” the “messiah.” (barf!)


103 posted on 09/28/2008 6:13:24 AM PDT by Catholic Iowan
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To: Tom_Busch

“She just wanted obama to know Ryan’s name”?????

Well, that worked out well, didn’t it?


104 posted on 09/28/2008 6:13:31 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Dawn531

That is good, and nails it.


105 posted on 09/28/2008 6:13:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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To: LibertyRocks

Thanks for taking the time to ping me and the others to this thread!
Freepers rock!


106 posted on 09/28/2008 6:16:21 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Tom_Busch

WOW
so here we have a man who has tried to censor ADs, signs and has even got MO officials to assist in this

We have earmarks what Biden had put in and where Obama’s pals at ACORN might get money.

We have Obama who wants to sit down with no pre conditions and he could not rememeber the soldiers name.

NOW we have found that the parents do not want obama tro wear it

this is in the last week

Now where is the media , this is disgusting.
all of the above in the last week would have sunk any other campaign and yet the media stays silent

surely even FOX who claims ot be fair has to report this and ask obama questions on this


107 posted on 09/28/2008 6:17:09 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick Ma sham marriage - -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: itsthejourney

bttt


108 posted on 09/28/2008 6:18:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: TrueFact

We shouldn’t get hung up on the words, “Truth Squad”. It makes sense to have an organized group in your campaign whose purpose is to ferret out untruths about your candidate and refute them. Obama’s “Truth Squad” seeks to PROSECUTE critics! Therein lies the glaring and dangerous difference.


109 posted on 09/28/2008 6:18:26 AM PDT by floralamiss
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To: Tom_Busch

Hey, if Barry wants to use your deceased son as a political prop, you’d better darn well let him. He might send a “truth squad” to visit your house...


110 posted on 09/28/2008 6:18:49 AM PDT by Antoninus (Ignore the polls. They're meant to shape public opinion, not measure it.)
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To: Tom_Busch

Freepers:

For the most part the media will neglect to report this type of story. But, this doesn’t mean that you don’t have the opportunity to get the news to the news yourself. Take a few minutes to go to your local newspapers web site and sign up to take part in their forums. This is a great way to start getting hidden stories out to others who are not hearing it.


111 posted on 09/28/2008 6:24:02 AM PDT by kempster
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To: Allegra

same here I’m in northern Florida and we do not know of one person, either around here or at my wife’s work.
Every person around here either will vote for McCain or just really hates Obama.

We know of no one who has been polled and the only time we have seen any signs for obama is when we have gone into Jacksonville.

My mother in law from MA is a life long Dem and she is not voting this time around for the first time in her life, my brother in law in MA is voting for McCain

I honestly have not met one person who wants obama and yet they say FL is close


112 posted on 09/28/2008 6:25:19 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick Ma sham marriage - -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Tom_Busch
Ther Pravda MSM will not report this. It is up to us to get the word out through email chains, forums like FR, talk radio, and word of mouth.

Obama is a monstrocity to our troops and to the whole country. His own deep ties to the financial crisis (among many other things) prove this.

OBAMA IS IMPLICATED IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES

113 posted on 09/28/2008 6:27:25 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: RandallFlagg

Yes, I’d agree if this got national coverage, but it won’t. We’ll see it here on Free Republic and it might be on talk radio next week. But it will NEVER see the light of day on any of the national news outlets. And that is a slap in the face to all of our nation’s military personnel.


114 posted on 09/28/2008 6:28:36 AM PDT by navymom1 (I support Free Speech. Defeat the Fairness Doctrine.)
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To: vwatto

Only Sean Hannity and Rush will cover this. Nobody else will even go near it.


115 posted on 09/28/2008 6:32:14 AM PDT by sball (If)
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To: Tom_Busch

The Bracelet is going to be his Waterloo. Not only did he not know the Dead Soldier’s name, he was raising his hand while McCain was telling his touching story.

The Titanic changed direction too and w/the New Media everyone is going to know what a disgrace he is. Talk about abuse of a hero.

Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops


116 posted on 09/28/2008 6:33:05 AM PDT by bray (Drill Congress!!)
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To: All

As a vet and mom of one son that spent eight years in, and another that will be going in next year,my heart breaks for these men and woman that are being used as political pawns. This is one area that I say a pox on both their houses. Just sickening.....


117 posted on 09/28/2008 6:33:19 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: hershey

No! No! Please don’t throw me in jail! I promise to get on my knees and worship BO! XD


118 posted on 09/28/2008 6:35:08 AM PDT by Jenzo
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To: basil

Unfreakinbelievable! He has no respect for anything or anyone and will use all to gain power. Absolutely disgusting piece of human trash.


119 posted on 09/28/2008 6:36:47 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: vwatto

I’ve been thinking that too. At least the media pretended to be unbaised. Now, they don’t give a rats. I knew it was the end when after McCain SCHOOLED BO during the debates, the media either gave it to Obama or called it a tie.


120 posted on 09/28/2008 6:37:51 AM PDT by Jenzo
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