I can't believe the conservatives are trying to dog Obama for the BRACELET. . .

. . .these are some sick folks. It appears that the parents of the soldier whose bracelet Obama wears are divorced and have different political views. After being ask to refrain from mentioning the bracelet Obama respected that, but when the issues of bracelets came up on Friday Obama mentioned it and that is when conservatives went on the attack, but guess what they should have checked with the soldier's mother first because she was happy Obama mentioned it.

Bracelet Wars*

September 28, 2008 11:34 AM

It was meant as a sign of respect, but now conservatives are saying Sen. Barack Obama's invocation of his "hero bracelet" bearing the name of a fallen soldier is being done against the family's wishes, based on comments made months ago by the soldier's father.

Based on comments the mother of the family gave to the Associated Press today, however, the notion that Obama is wearing the hero bracelet against the wishes of the family -- or more specifically, the mother, who gave him the bracelet -- is more complicated that it first seemed. She did ask Obama to stop mentioning her son on the stump, but she approved of the way Obama invoked her son in the debate.
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In an interview with the Associated Press today, Brian's ex-wife confirmed today that she had asked the Obama campaign to ask the candidate to stop mentioning her son on the stump.

But -- and here's where it gets complicated -- according to the AP story, Tracy Jopek also said she was "ecstatic" that Obama mentioned her son's hero bracelet during Friday's debate. That's because he was responding to McCain citing a different griveing mother's hero bracelet as a way to back his political views of the war in Iraq and citing the bracelet she'd given Obama was a good and appropriate way to remind people there are different views on this issue.

"His response in the debate was exactly that, a response, after John McCain put it out there first,” she said. “I think it was an appropriate response — he was just saying there’s another side to the story, there’s two different viewpoints.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/bracelet-wars.html

You allowed his name to be place on a bracelet and so if someone mentions it in public, then you have to let it be.

The republicans are looking for any thing they can to put a crack in Obama's campaign. They know that shit like that will make a few people say publicly at least that they will not vote for Obama because of that.

The same type of shit was done 4 years ago with Cheney and his daughter coming out. Kerry said something that the GOP used to bring idiots out of the woodwork declaring they changed their vote over that single phrase.

FUCKING BULLSHIT

and having to read it off his bracelet as if it's better that McCain's made such a habit of politicizing HIS bracelet's name that he has no problem even with HIS 73 year old brain remembering the name.

Yeah, I went there. When you're too fucking old, you're too fucking old. There's no way getting around it.

McCain didn't wear one during the debate. What a commie!

This is why I hate conservatives. They are such ass holes.