McCain’s icky Education ad prompted me to dig a little deeper and find out the sex ed legislation that Obama actually supported. Here’s what I found, from McClatchy’s fact check:
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.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday of McCain's ad: "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."
So I’d like to say thank you to McCain, for helping me to learn a bit more about my candidate.
But all jokes aside, this ad makes me feel sick to my stomach. Like, I’m nauseous right now. I think it has something to do with this screenshot:
What do we see here? Obama looking down, shirt ruffled, sleazy grin on his face. What do we hear? A voiceover discussing his support of comprehensive sex ed for kindergartners. And so, I wonder, what are we meant to imagine? That Obama is looking down at a little kid in a sexual way. And what are we meant to feel, as a gut reaction? Outrage and fear.
Well it worked – I do feel outrage and fear. Outrage that McCain would stoop so low as to dip into the Birth of a Nation playbook , and fear of the filth to come out of his campaign.
Gutter politics indeed.
Related:
Time's Swampland - Apology Not Accepted
HuffingtonPost - Gutter Politics
WOW! I trust that Americans aren't simple minded enough to believe Obama wants to teach kindergarteners about condoms.
This youtube video clears it up pretty nicely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBemJ3H9rAM
Posted by: Manny Stevens | September 10, 2008 at 02:27 PM
http://perezhilton.com/tv/?videoid=8f2b7d2300da8
Posted by: Jillian | September 10, 2008 at 05:17 PM