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 