Family told Obama NOT to wear soldier son's bracelet

[formerlurker]

Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media?
By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive)
September 28, 2008 - 03:53 ET 

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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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.

Jopek began by saying that his ex-wife was taken aback, even upset, that Obama has made the death of her son a campaign issue. Jopek says his wife gave Obama the bracelet because "she just wanted Mr. Obama to know Ryan's name." Jopek went on to say that "she wasn't looking to turn it into a big media event" and "just wanted it to be something between Barack Obama and herself." Apparently, they were all shocked it became such a big deal.

But, he also said that his ex-wife has refused further interviews on the matter and that she wanted Obama to stop wearing the reminder of her son's sacrifice that he keeps turning into a campaign soundbyte.

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/28/family-told-obama-not-wear-soldier-sons-bracelet-where-media

Oh my.

[Crazy Horse]

Move along..............nothing to see here.........nothing at all

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

bastard

[miskie]

Of course, this will get zero play.

[RightCoast]

Barack is an Asshole.

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

What a piece of shit! I knew there was something to him wearing the bracelet, not just in that he forgot the name. I thought the story wasn't true until I did Google the name Sgt. Ryan Jopek and found he was killed in Iraq August 2nd of 06. This however is just a "look at me! Look at me! I has one tooooooo!!!!!" childish bullshit by Obama because he knew McCain was going to bring up Cpl. Stanley's bracelet because McCain was doing that on the campaign trail that I know of since March. Can the Jopek's seek litigation against Obama for throwing away the family's wishes that he not wear the bracelet??

[jendf]

My first instinct when reading this was to say, "Unbelievable!" But, then, after considering it for a moment, I realized that, for the Obama campaign, it's not unbelievable at all. I shouldn't have expected anything less.

[Airwolf]

Looks like Barry suffers from assring around the collar syndrome

[Wretched Excess]

servicemen and women are stage props to the dem elite.  nothing more, nothing less.

[Jim]

At the very minimum, the messiah lied about what Mrs Jopek said.

I hope the hell somebody puts that in an ad.

[NHSparky]

Apparently they got to mommy...

LINK

Soldier's mother ``ecstatic'' about Obama's bracelet
By DINESH RAMDE | Associated Press Writer
4:28 PM CDT, September 28, 2008

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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.

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Well, there you have it.  She asked him not to, he did it anyway.  ****ing tool.

[formerlurker]

That and his father specifically asked him NOT to do it.

[RightCoast]

That and his father specifically asked him NOT to do it.

Interview of the father by the AP in 4..3..2..oh wait - they got their story line.  No further action required.

[Chris_]

Jopek began by saying that his ex-wife was taken aback, even upset, that Obama has made the death of her son a campaign issue. Jopek says his wife gave Obama the bracelet because "she just wanted Mr. Obama to know Ryan's name." Jopek went on to say that "she wasn't looking to turn it into a big media event" and "just wanted it to be something between Barack Obama and herself." Apparently, they were all shocked it became such a big deal.

I wonder how taken aback, even upset they're gonna be when their son apparently rises from the grave to vote - several times - for teh Obamessiah next month?

Sick bastard.