Comments on: Mom Supports Obama's Bracelet Mention

Tracy Jopek "Ecstatic" About Democrat's Use Of Her Son's Name At Debate

[hokuto1]

Credibility2 asks: "Why is it not political grandstanding when Obama does something like this, but it is when McCain does it?"

If Obama had been the FIRST to mention the bracelet issue, and McCain had not responded with his own bracelet, what would people say? That he was being considerate of the feelings of the family? or what? The fact is, Obama is placed in the unfortunate position of having to respond to things that McCain does like this. It wasn''t Obama, but McCain who first mentioned that he wore a bracelet. Should Obama have remained silent, without noting that he, too, had one? Maybe so, maybe not, but I can understand why he did. He''s been smeared before for ostensibly not "supporting" the troops, even though he has visited them without any press coverage on at least several occasions that I know of. So if he now remained silent, how would people respond? Probably a lot of people would say, "see, there he is again, not thinking of the troops; McCain wears a bracelet, but Obama doesn''t." Or if they found out that he in fact does wear a bracelet, "then why didn''t he mention it? is he ashamed to let people know?" The possibilities are endless. All we know for a fact is: McCain mentioned his first, Obama responded he had one too, and the Mom is glad. I''d leave it at that.

[credibility2]

Why is it not political grandstanding when Obama does something like this, but it is when McCain does it? Mine is bigger than yours and other things are next. Stay tuned to the next debate and make sure you watch all of it and not just the parts that you understand and appeal to your limited attention spans.

[pvperson]

So it was McCain that so shameless used the death of a soldier for political gain, I knew it all along.

[rm1813]

It''s 3 a.m., a few months into 2009, and the phone in the White House rings. Several big hedge funds are about to fail, Whom do you trust to take that call? The odds are that the next president will have to deal with some major financial emergencies. We''ve known that Mr. McCain doesn''t know much about economics- he''s said so himself. That wouldn''t matter too much if he had good taste in advisers -- but he doesn''t. Remember, his chief mentor on economics is Phil Gramm, the arch-deregulator, who took special care in his Senate days to prevent oversight of financial derivatives -- that sank Lehman and A.I.G., and brought the credit markets to the edge of collapse. Mr. Gramm is still considered a likely choice as Treasury secretary. And when the McCain campaign announced that the candidate had assembled %u201Can impressive collection of economists, professors, and prominent conservative policy leaders%u201D to advise him on economic policy, who was prominently featured? Kevin Hassett, the co-author of %u201CDow 36,000.%u201D Enough said. To a large extent the poor quality of Mr. McCain''s advisers reflects the tattered intellectual state of his party. Has there ever been a more pathetic economic proposal than that we try to solve the financial crisis by eliminating capital gains taxes? (Troubled financial institutions, by definition, don''t have capital gains to tax.). At this point, one has the suspicion that a McCain administration would have us longing for Bush-era competence.

[vet_sk]

Obama is our hope that America can be great again.

On a fully separate account: Gov Palin. I almost feel sorry for her but at the level of Governor you should at least know your limitations. But she doesn''t seem to get it - likely the reason she finds it so easy to talk about the things that interest her: church, roe v wade, oil and gas, and making quick decisions {if they''re right or not}. She is the ultimate Chance Gardner from Being There (1979) when you put her on the national stage. Her husband Mr Palin is giving her an out to go back to Alaska and spend time with her family and take on her role as Gov again. Go for it Sarah: National and International policy has not interested you in the past enough to talk and think about it. It is time to move back to Alaska and enjoy what you do.