MLK said “I have a dream”.
Mr. Obama said “I have a bracelet”.
Unfortunately the quality of speechmaking seems to have declined a bit over time, so that the current result is to no longer uplift and inspire.

John McCain takes his commitment to service members personally. From John McCain’s service in the military he has a personal knowledge of the sacrifice a family makes when a love one dies in the service of his country. John McCain knows what it means to the family for him to wear the service member’s name on his wrist and knows the name of the service member without having to read it.
Barak Obama’s wearing of the bracelet doesn’t appear as based on a personal commitment to the service member’s memory since he couldn’t even remember the service member’s name.

Posted by Steve (retired 23 year service member(

“John McCain’s service and sincere commemoration to our fallen service men and women”
You must be joking! The man voted AGAINST a recent vet bill to give veterans benefits like money for college when they get back from Iraq!! He said if they passed that bill, the soldiers would not reenlist but go to school instead.
There are many youtube videos of how shamefully he treated the POW-MIA women who went before Congress. He even pushed a woman in a wheelchair who was blocking his way to his office. He’s a hothead, and his nickname in high school was “McNasty”. He graduated at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy. He crashed SEVEN planes while in service. It got to be a joke.
Nearly all Veteran groups are AGAINST McCain.
He lies, he lies, he lies…and he gets away with it.
Don’t need or want another lying President…been there; done that.

That’s the one thing that I saw that did not sit well with me. McCain has a deep connection to these soldiers, Obama wearing a bracelet wears the bracelet in vain and had to look down for the name! That’s disgraceful! He doesn’t understand the sacrifice of our troops and believes that wearing the bracelet of a slain soldier and not even remembering his name is not comparable to John McCain’s service and sincere commemoration to our fallen service men and women.

But did you notice McCain’s reaction to Obama saying he had a bracelet too? He was none too pleased and looked extremely irritated seeing Obama neutralize one of his most hackneyed stump talking points. Score one to Obama.

I think it is important to remember that we know very little about global intelligence operations we are not supposed to.
Unfortunately, the world is a really hostile environment. People are being butchered in Africa, women abused and treated like dogs, children prostituted, hostages held, kidnappings, starvation diesase and famine. The middle east has its share of horrible acts against it’s own. Unfortunately oil and terrorism is a real issue.
We have an all volunteer military and I know some who have signed up for return duty in Iraq. They know what a difference they are making and overall and say “we have no idea how good we have it here at home”. A Mother knows thier son or daughter has made huge, deep decision when enlisitng. A mothers heart and soul should support and respect the decision their child makes. This is not like Vietnam. The washed up hippies forget we do have a voluntary military. If you ask those who have done a tour in Iraq what they think or feel is being accomplished you may be surprised at thier answer.
Meanwhile we have more deaths here in inner cities than in the war (one year span). They should be wearing bracelets for those deaths. Biden, McCain and Palin have sons in Iraq. They as parents don’t want to wear a bracelet to signify their death. I am confident as parents and leaders they will do their best to keep thier love ones safe while serving. Rambling onnnnn

The difference is that McCain wears his bracelet because he has a deep connection to the soldiers fighting in Iraq. He made a promise to that dead soldier’s mother and he has lived each day since toward fulfilling that promise. He even called to comfort the woman on the anniversary of her son’s death. Obama wears his bracelet as a political ploy. It means so little to him personally that he doesn’t even know the soldier’s name … he had to read it from the bracelet during the debate. Shallow and insincere, that’s what Obama is.

100-to-1 that the liberal news media tries to bury the peek at the bracelet story. It was like Danny Devito from Renaissance Man talking about carrying the name of a soldier for miles during a protest, but not being able to remember the name he carried.

Sad, really, that Obama, with all his razor sharp intellect, wouldn’t have just a little bit of room to bother to remember the name of a fallen soldier whose moniker he wears on his wrist.

Both Obama and McCain each have a bracelet of dead soldiers, but what we forget here was that we did not need to loose over 4000 lives in Iraq, a war that those men and women did not deserve to loose their lives. Our goal was to root out Terrorists in Afghanistan and Bin Laden. We still fighting Terrorists and Bin Laden, and they are still plan a worst attack than 9/11. What happened to those lives lost during 9/11. We have not have justice.

I’d like to see a poll on this. But if I had to guess, I’d probably believe more mothers who have lost children in Iraq would prefer that no one else dies for a war that began with a lie and will not end. To suggest that we add any valor or virtue to a death in war by adding to the numbers of the fallen is illogical and sad.