"What happened: A new 30-second TV ad attacks Barack Obama's record on education, saying that Obama backed legislation to teach "'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners." The announcer then says, "Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."
Why that's wrong: This is a deliberately misleading accusation. It came hours after the Obama campaign released a TV ad critical of McCain's votes on public education. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for but was not a sponsor of legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12.
But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach "age-appropriate" sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators."
This ad removes any doubt that Senator McCain has rationalized that anything goes in his effort to win the Presidency. Like some TV pundits I watched tonight, I hope Senator Obama will speak to this directly and with emotion on Wednesday.
- Richard Holcomb
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I am past all manners of shock at what politicians will say in order to try to win votes but what amazes me is why these people hearing these absolute lies and nothing else but lies don't speak out about them. That's where the problem is. If the listeners would refuse to allow these politicians to fill the air with this garbage, the lies would have to simply stop. I can't blame the politicians. They showed long time ago that absolutely nothing is sacred when it comes to them trying to win an election. I lay 100% of the fault directly at the feet of the citizens that stand there under almost a dazed like atmosphere while their "hero's" spew forth lie after lie, added with an occasional dash of near truth. Such a shame our politicial system has been reduced to. It makes me physically sick and sad to say I see absolutely no end in sight. Frank B. Holcomb, Bradenton, Florida
FactCheck has a post up flagging the McCain campaign for unsportsmanlike conduct for this one too.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/off_base_on_sex_ed.html
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