"I have a bracelet too," says Obama.

Obama stated, "Well, you know what? I have a bracelet too." during the first Presidential Debate this Friday (September 26 2008). The bracelet belonged to Ryan D. Jopek, a Sergeant that died overseas in Iraq in 2007., whose family had asked Obama not to wear the bracelet at anymore of his public appearances. Nevertheless, he kept it on. Why would he do this?

I'm the kind of person who takes everything with a grain of salt. I give people the benefit of the doubt as much as I can. Nevertheless, I can't think of very many reasons that Obama would still wear the bracelet.

Maybe -- just maybe -- he had thought that, even though the Jopek family didn't want him to wear it, Ryan D. Jopek did.

I was pretty unhappy that it took Senator Obama a minute to even remember Ryan's name while it took Senator McCain no time at all to remember Matthew Stanely's name. I thought, why couldn't you remember the name of the guy on the bracelet you're wearing? Why'd you have to look at it? Honestly, I was upset.

But I slept on it.

And now I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming that, when he said he had a bracelet just like McCain did, it was an accidental blurt out in an attempt to counter McCain's heartwarming story and he was internally kicking himself for it (maybe not for saying that he had the bracelet, but for forgetting the soldier's name for that brief moment).

But that isn't what this is about. I'm wondering, why do you think Obama choose to wear the bracelet to public events even though he was told not to by Jopek's family? 

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