One of the most idiotic moments of last Friday’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama was when the latter interrupted the former to say that he too had a bracelet from an American soldier killed in Iraq. Obama felt forced to brag about wearing the bracelet after McCain bragged about his (because that’s what it was; I care more than you!).
The moment became more awkward when Obama seemed to struggle to remember the slain soldier’s name. Many instantly got the impression that Obama may have cared enough about the soldier’s life and death to wear his bracelet, and to use it in the campaign, but not enough to remember his name.
That was bad (although ignored by the ‘elite media’; if it was John McCain they would have repeated the moment constantly on television, and newspapers would write about nothing else), but it became even worse on Sunday when popular conservative website and media watchdog Newsbusters reported that the soldier’s mother gave the bracelet to Obama for personal use and reasons. She did not want him to use it on the campaign trail. When she later saw him using the bracelet nonetheless, she asked Obama to stop it.
He, seemingly, refused to do so, however, believing that respecting the wishes of a mother who lost her son in war was less important than winning elections.
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Think about it."Braceletgate" a/k/a "me too gate" says EVERYTHING you need to know about the person who is Obama.