The Great Bracelet Debate

The case of the bracelet.

McCain told a passionate speech about a mother who gave him a bracelet that she wanted him to wear as a reminder to keep the course, and make sure her beloved son's death was not in vein. that means to make sure we win this war so we don't come home in shame, and have to go back to fix things later.

Obama decided to pull a neener neener boo boo moment by saying "Yeah, well, I so totally have a bracelet to. It's for this guy... um... god what was his name? Oh yeah, it was from the mother of this soldier dude whose name is um..."



Recently, the father of the soldier who Obama couldn't remember, said that his ex-wife had actually asked the campaign to not use her son's name, and then emailed her ex to let him know. And it seemed he agreed with that decision.

Obama decided to use it anyway. He threw the mother under the bus and used her son to "get" McCain. Here McCain made a passionate speech, and he used her son as a neener neener moment.

The mother admits she did ask the campaign to not mention her son by name, and she did tell her ex... but she is "thrilled" Obama threw her under... I mean... used her son's name to try to discredit a war hero who gave a passionate speech about another war hero. (Cindy Sheehan anyone?) She didn't seem to mind he couldn't even remember her son's name. (This same man who "couldn't" go see wounded soldiers in Germany once he realized photo ops were not allowed.)

Many people say "Case closed. She said she didn't want him to do it, she asked him not to, and told her ex-husband what she told the campaign, but she is ok with it, so there." however... What about the father who wasn't happy. It was his son too. Oremus, a member of a message board I frequent, put it more eloquently...

"Those who continue to respond even after they've arrogantly declared "case closed," for no other reason than they've determined it to be so.

Mr. Obama and the left, certainly have a history of treating those mothers, who've lost sons who had volunteered to fight the war in Iraq, as useful tools.

I find it incredibly despicable and utterly loathesome that somebody who would use that bracelet as a "prop," and pretend that he had worn it since it was given to him in February, had no idea of the soldier's name that was printed on the same bracelet.

I would assume that a father of the deceased son would qualify as a member of the son's family as well as the mother and any siblings."

I don't know who I'm more upset with... Obama's blatant use of the son's bracelet as a prop for a neener neener boo boo moment...

or the mother's blindness to the fact Obama threw her and her son under the bus to get at McCain... and that she's "thrilled" he did it, despite the fact he couldn't remember her son's name, and he ONLY did it because he wanted to have that neener neener boo boo moment. What a disservice to her son's memory. Used (and poorly) as a "gotcha" moment.

Why do I get the sudden feeling she's going to become Cindy Sheehan revisited?

What about the father? And what about the son? Is she speaking for how HE felt, or just how SHE feels? If he believed in what he was doing as many soldiers there do... then she's doing a disservice to him. It would be different if she had said he had many objections to the war and was there against his will and better judgement, however, neither the father nor the mother, nor Obama has said this. And while she suffered the worst thing a mother can suffer, the loss of a child... She is doing a big discredit to her son by letting Obama use his name in a way he may not have wanted himself to be used.


I guess...

if that were me, and it were my family member being thrown under the bus like that... not only would I have been insulted that he tried to use my family member as a way to get back at McCain... but to not remember that family member's name... I'd have insisted he stopped wearing the bracelet immediately. But that's just me.

then again, no one in my family would want Obama wearing their name. My dad loved his country, and served it with pride. He would not want Obama using him as anti-war propoganda, especially if he was there believing in what he was doing.