From Margaret Talev, McClatchey Washington Bureau--
The ad- A new 30-second TV ad claims that Barack 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."
The truth- The accusation came hours after the Obama campaign released a TV ad critical of McCain's votes on education.
As a state senator in Illinois, Obama voted for but was not a sponsor of legislation dealing with sex education for grades K-12. But the legislation was designed so that local school boards could offer "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.
Republican rival 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.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday of McCain's ad: "It is shameful and downright perverse of 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."
And this guy's ahead in the polls.....
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I have have this bad feeling that McCain is going to be our next president, and that terrifies me. Then he'll probably die and we'll be left with the moose-hunting hockey mom. I think it's time to start planning a 4-year vacation in Canada!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!!????????
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