I’ve Got A Bracelt Too; I Don’t Know Where It Came From And I Won’t Take It Off!

Posted on September 28th, 2008 in United States Politics by rfburnhertz

Barack Obama has a bracelet, too.

That inartful comeback will likely filter out through the political ether in the days ahead. What might not filter through our partisan press is that shortly after pointing out that, like John McCain, he sports a bracelet given to him by a military family, Barack Obama had to stop and look down find out the name of the soldier he’s honoring.
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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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Dear Mr. Obama

Posted on September 12th, 2008 in United States Politics by rfburnhertz

I know millions of people have seen the video below, so my posting it is nothing special.

The video is just great and makes a great over all point, but this soldier touches on something that I have been arguing since we first went to Iraq and it is something I’ve not seen anyone comment about in any place I’ve seen this video.

He states:

The Iraqi people are just like us. They want a chance to live in a secure world, free from tyranny, free from terrorism, free to prosper, free to raise their children and pass on a future.

I have since this war began and I continue to ask to this day (and have yet to receive a intelligent response) what is it about Iraqis that makes them less deserving of freedom and the benefits of freedom than Americans?

To those of you who oppose this war I ask why is it that makes you so very deserving of freedom and what is it that makes the people of Iraq so undeserving?