McClatchy being one of the few reasonably trustworthy sources out there:
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.
And we all know how sensitive Republicans* and Christianists are about that!
Republican Alan Keyes tried to use Obama's vote against him in the 2004 U.S. Senate race. At the time, Obama spoke about wanting to protect young children from abuse. He made clear then that he was not supporting teaching kindergartners about explicit details of sex.
Rewarmed Alan Keyes? That's gotta sting!
NOTE * I forgot it was a post-partisan era, and I accidentally undermined Obama's leadership. I didn't mean to say that Rs were any more likely to be sex predators than Ds. Sorry. I'd take the evidence back, if I could.
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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
Ugh!
This has to be one of the least imaginative campaigns on either side. This is the best the GOP can do? Rewarm Alan Keyes? That's more pathetic than anything else. I can think of true things to say about Obama that are worse than this lie. What is this country coming to when the GOP can't manufacture a decent smear? I mean, I know our industrial base is for shit, but this is the one manufacturing sector that I thought was recession proof.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
LOL! A smear deficit as well as a budget deficit
Good one! dupager
dupager
Saw the Commercial, Yesterday.
Besides the Ayers one, this is probably the only other one that I can remember that I was truly offended by because it was so damned dumb and see-through. I didn't even have to know the specific facts to see how taken out of context it was.
BTW, I bet Obama wishes he was running against Alan Keys, right now. lol
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...