So, the Obama campaign is calling this new McCain ad airing on television “perverse”. What do you think? (Note, the video below is a composite, showing clips of McCain calling for a respectful campaign, and then it features the new ad in question, as an example of McCain failing to meet that standard)
The ad states that Obama’s only accomplishment on education is to have championed “comprehensive sex education for kindergartners,” and mocking him for wanting to teach sex to kids before they learn how to read. Turns out that the actual legislation was about protecting kindergarten-age children from sex offenders.
Says Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton:
“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. Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn’t define what honor was. Now we know why.”
Ouch!
It’s going to be a loooong couple months, folks.
Inform Your Consent 
Wendy Whedon said
John McCain, HOW DARE YOU?! As an elementary school counselor, I am outraged at your latest claims in your “education” ad. As a human being claiming to care about people, how can you discount the benefits of sex education programs such as Good Touch Bad Touch as a means of preventing child sexual abuse? In questioning Obama about teaching sex ed in kindergarten, you are questioning whether or not it is appropriate to supply our youngest victims with necessary tools to protect themselves, most often from their own family members. After teaching the Good Touch Bad Touch program last year, I was able to get help for a young girl who was been sexually abused by her own brother for almost 2 years. Since the average age that sexual abuse begins is age 4, it is entirely appropriate that kindergarteners understand their own bodies and what is appropriate touching and what is not. Until you put yourself on the front line and work with these broken children, don’t claim that you have all the answers. Get your facts straight before you attack something you obviously know nothing about!