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To: SandRat

The problem with this is that the father did not give it to him so it is not his to take back. And has anyone heard from the mother? And are the parents even still married? Did the father say he objected?

How do you feel about the failed state of Pakistan prior to the coup?

McCain’s run for office will be a setback for the Republican party.


54 posted on 09/28/2008 3:53:10 PM PDT by tru_degenerate (Let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.)
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To: tru_degenerate

Developments:

“The problem with this is that the father did not give it to him so it is not his to take back. And has anyone heard from the mother? And are the parents even still married? Did the father say he objected?”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-obama-bracelet,0,6413408.story

MILWAUKEE - The mother of a Wisconsin soldier who died in Iraq says she was “ecstatic” during Friday’s debate when Senator Barack Obama mentioned the bracelet she gave him in honor of her son.

Tracy Jopek of Merrill told The Associated Press on Sunday she was honored that he remembered Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, who was killed in 2006 by a roadside bomb.

She criticized Internet reports that suggested Obama exploited her son for political purposes.

She acknowledges e-mailing the campaign in February asking that Obama not mention her son in speeches or debates. But she says Obama’s mention on Friday was appropriate because he was responding after Senator John McCain said a soldier’s mother gave him a bracelet.

Jopek says Obama’s comment rightfully suggested there’s more than one viewpoint on the war.


57 posted on 09/28/2008 4:29:39 PM PDT by Sally Golightly
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