New McCain Ad: Obama Favors Sex-Ed For Kindergartners
The McCain campaign has released a new ad, "Education," that suggests Barack Obama favors teaching sex education to kindergartners. A McCain aide tells CBS News the ad will air on Fox News and in select markets in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
"Education Week says Obama 'hasn't made a significant mark on education,'" an announcer says as the spot opens. "That he's 'elusive' on accountability. A 'staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.'"
The announcer continues: "Obama's one accomplishment? Legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."
Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs told CBS News the legislation Obama supported provided information to children on what to watch for when with an adult they don't know, such as inappropriate advances or touching.
“It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls – a position that his friend Mitt Romney also holds," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn’t define what honor was. Now we know why."
"Education Week says Obama 'hasn't made a significant mark on education,'" an announcer says as the spot opens. "That he's 'elusive' on accountability. A 'staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.'"
The announcer continues: "Obama's one accomplishment? Legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."
Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs told CBS News the legislation Obama supported provided information to children on what to watch for when with an adult they don't know, such as inappropriate advances or touching.
“It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls – a position that his friend Mitt Romney also holds," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn’t define what honor was. Now we know why."
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See all 81 CommentsJOHN MCCAIN IS A REAL BIG *******
"Yes, honey, when Mr. P goes into Ms. V, you can get preggie. It''s not like we told you about Jesus doing it!"--Sarah
Does John McCain have a problem with that?
If he really cared about predators, then why was he the only vote for SB 485 (Illinois, 1999) that offered "good time" for *** Offenders in the County Jail?
And, why did he refuse to vote on SB 609 (2001) that would restrict porn shops near any schools, day-cares etc?
BECAUSE HE IS A SICKO and a liar!!!
If the media doesn''t hold McCain responsible for this, the public should.
WHERE IS THE MEDIA ON MCCAIN? As McCain has said multiple times- "They are my base".
The GOP is SO VERY GOOD AT DISTORTION and creating FALSE ISSUES.
WHY? This is the only thing the Republicans can RUN ON. They''ve screwed up the country so badly they need distractions. SO THEY MANUFACTURE THEM.
Karl Rove is at work again. Total slime.
Republicans should be ASAHMED.
Why don''t Obama and Biden take off the gloves and expose McSame for what he is, and his VP pick for the total whack job incompetent she is.
Negative campaigning works. It worked fine for the Repubs. last week, now McSame is leading. Negative campaigning works because people are too lazy or stupid to learn the facts for themselves.
Go Obama. Go negative.
This is what is known as Rovian!! And he''s is advising the McCain campaign.
What was McCain thinking when he approved that ad? He should apologize and beg for forgiveness. Maybe he thinks his POW experience excuses his insensitivity like it excuses his serial adultery.
This ad does it for me. I just made my first political contribution ever. Anyone but McCain/Palin for president.
It makes me sad that McCain has become the very thing he used to fight against. It makes me angry that the Republicans are willing to say and do absolutely anything to win (but we''ve seen that before). It appalls me that the Obama campaign doesn''t seem to understand that it needs to fight back without restraint.
We''re rapidly losing our democracy, and so many people are cheering on the process because they''re mistaking partisanship for patriotism.
Posted by Luckdress
I dont call it going soft, you HAVE heard of the old saying of "I wont even give that credibility by responding to it"
Why should an educated man like Obama respond to these childish outlandish false attacks? The ads show McSame for exactly what he and his party of Repubiccrooks stand for- win at ANY cost, even with the LIES they are famous for now. Same lies about the Dems planning to throw out tens of thousands of FLAGS after their convention- just more BS designed to rile up the idiots out there.
Thats all politics has become- attack ads, I dont care what the OTHER guy says or does or what you claim he said or did, I want to hear what *YOU* as presidential hopeful and candidate plan to do for *ME*- a taxpayer who pays your dam SALARY, I want to know what *YOU* plan to do with taxes, the war, Immigrants, health care and more, dont tell me about the OTHER guy!
I think kindergarten is NOT too young to start warning kids about perverted old men. How typical that Republicans would object to that!
You have the nerve to call Palin incompetent when your own candidate is going for the Presidency but has less experience than the vast majority of past Presidents, including a complete lack of military experience? Did you watch Sarah Palin''s speech? She''s a pretty face, but there''s WAY more to her than any Dem is giving her credit for.
I say make sure you''ve washed your own hands before calling ours messy.
Huh? Go figure...
http://www.armchairsubversive.org/
I spot checked a few and they are actual convictions. This is an OUTRAGE!
Go check it out yourself. The GOP party has NO moral credibility at all on this issue.
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report''s four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox
Posted by steve20084
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This is the definition of a "reactionary" - look it up on google.
They''ve now shown us the Rovian smear tactics.
Orwellian "doublespeak" coming up next.
The other is desperate to cover up the mess they have made. They look you right in the face and tell you the world is flat and you''re suppose to believe them.
Ealier in the election process he promised to run a "clean and honorable " I must be missing something. This ad is nothing short of insulting and demeaning...not to mention it''s a big fat lie.
The actual bill, BTW, is called SB00099, not SD 99. And you can look at it at the Illinois General Assembly website:
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=99&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=734&SessionID=3&GA=93
In short, the bill was designed to add sexual-predator awareness education and comprehensive ***-ed to children in the 6-12 grades, and first aid and alcohol/drug/peer pressure awareness in 5-12 grades. It never targeted children in grades lower than 5th grade, and it required parents to comment on the curriculum and opt-out measures for the AIDS and ***-ed components for parents who did not want their children to learn this material.
This ad is vile, and defamatory. If you are as offended as I am, ask the networks, the FCC and FTC to take it off the air!
The actual bill, BTW, is called SB00099, not SD 99. And you can look at it at the Illinois General Assembly website:
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=99&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=734&SessionID=3&GA=93
In short, the bill was designed to add sexual-predator awareness education and comprehensive ***-ed to children in the 6-12 grades, and first aid and alcohol/drug/peer pressure awareness in 5-12 grades. It never targeted children in grades lower than 5th grade, and it required parents to comment on the curriculum and opt-out measures for the AIDS and ***-ed components for parents who did not want their children to learn this material.
This ad is vile, and defamatory. If you are as offended as I am, ask the networks, the FCC and FTC to take it off the air!
The McCain of today is a dishonorable, power-hungry, liar.
I have lost any shred of respect i had for McCain.
The GOP is evil.
The media needs to challenge McCain about how misleading and demeaning this ad is.
This is the most offensive presidential attack in history, worse than Willie Horton, worse than swiftboating. Calling somebody a pedophile is worse than calling them a coward. Let''s not ignore the racial implications of this ad. They are invoking the "black man as sexual predator and threat to white women" stereotype with the image of Obama with a photograph of little white girls. In some images, it seems that they have actually darkened Obama''s skin. Even the movement of his photograph over the school images is designed to make him look like he''s physically moving, and thus stalking the children.
I expect the media to stop running scared from McCain and Palin and do some actual reporting and truth-telling here.
I expect the Obama campaign to come out with something stronger than a printed statement. They need to sue for libel, demand the withdrawal of the ad, and demand an apology to Obama and his family.
This is a new political low and the victims are not only the Obama family, but American children. I''m shocked by how vicious this is.
Americans who vote for the McCain Palin ticket and its non-existent economic plan deserve to lose their houses.
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