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Remember that moment in the debate Friday night where John McCain mentioned that he was wearing a bracelet commemorating a soldier who was lost in Iraq, and the mother of that solider asked McCain to make sure her son didn’t die in vain?

And Remember how Barack Obama responded by saying that he had a bracelet too… but had to look down for a reminder of who the soldier was? Well not only was that a little embarassing for the Senator from Illinois, but it turns out that the parents of Sgt. Ryan David Jopek aren’t happy with him either. While his mother is an Obama supporter, they asked him to stop bringing it up in public:

Brian Jopek: Because of some of the negative feedback she’s gotten on the Internet, you know Internet blogs, you know people accusing her of… or accusing Obama of trying to get votes doing it… and that sort of thing.

Radio Host Moberg: Yeah

Jopek: She has turned down any subsequent interviews with the media because she just didn’t want it to get turned into something that it wasn’t. She had told me in an email that she had asked, actually asked Mr. Obama to not wear the bracelet any more at any of his public appearances. Which I don’t think he’s…

Moberg: It has been a while since he’s brought it up.

Jopek: Right. But, the other night I was watching the news and he was on, uh, speaking somewhere and he was still wearing it on his right wrist. I could see it on his right wrist. So, that’s his own choice. I mean that’s something Barack Obama, that’s a choice that he continues to wear it despite Tracy asking him not to… Because she is a Barack Obama supporter and she didn’t want to do anything to sabotage his campaign, so, if he’s still wearing the bracelet then, uh, that of course is entirely up to him.