UPDATE: Statement from the Obama campaign:
"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," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.A week after John McCain leaked the news of Sarah Palin's daughter's unwed pregnancy to Reuters, today we have McCain running ads accusing Obama of wanting to teach sex education to 6 year olds (you'll be surprised to hear that McCain is lying - more on that further down). McCain is desperate to change the topic from Sarah Palin's daily lies, and the fact that everyone is wise to her hiding out because she's not ready to be VP. So McCain is going incendiary in order to hopefully get the media to stop focusing on how he's lost his maverick status, in addition to losing control of his campaign.
First off, McCain is lying again - though no surprise there, every day has been a new lie (well, an old lie) about how much Sarah Palin opposed earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere (she welcomed both). And interestingly, McCain is taking a page from loony Republican Alan Keyes, who also accused Obama of the same thing back in 2004. Obama's response at the time, during the Illinois Senate debate on 10/21/04, was that he was interested in protecting kids from sexual abuse - something McCain seems oddly opposed to:
"Actually, that wasn't what I had in mind. We have a existing law that mandates sex education in the schools. We want to make sure that it's medically accurate and age-appropriate. Now, I'll give you an example, because I have a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and one of the things my wife and I talked to our daughter about is the possibility of somebody touching them inappropriately, and what that might mean. And that was included specifically in the law, so that kindergarteners are able to exercise some possible protection against abuse, because I have family members as well as friends who suffered abuse at that age. So, that's the kind of stuff that I was talking about in that piece of legislation."So, McCain is opposed to stopping the sexual predation of children?
Putting aside the irony of McCain last week leaking news of Palin's daughter's unmarried, underage pregnancy, and this week railing against sex education, does McCain really want to start lecturing people about sexual morality? Really? And McCain thinks Sarah Palin is going to take the high ground on issues concerning pre-marital sex and the proper education of our children to avoid pregnancy? Really?
Ironically, Massachusetts under Mitt Romney permitted sex education to be taught pre-kindergarten, and Mitt Romney himself approves of age-appropriate sex education. I wonder what Alaska rules permit.
In any case, it's clear that McCain is Karl Rove - the transformation is complete. Mccain is going to get as sleazy as he needs to in order to take down Obama. Perhaps now Senator Obama will finally, and completely, take the gloves off. We can start with McCain's repeated statements that he didn't love America until the age of 31. (And yes, we know, McCain was a tortured POW. But it's not clear what that has to do with him not really loving America the first three decades of his life, before he was a POW. I can't name one person I know who doesn't really love America. McCain's admission sounds patriotic, but at its core it's a bit odd). Then let's have a full discussion about John McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal and his cheating on his first wife (the latter definitely deals with sexual morality). And if McCain really wants to have a sleazy discussion about who has the best interest of children at heart, all I'm going to say is that the Obama's never stole drugs from sick children in order to feed their drug addiction. Show of hands - how many McCains can say that?
And oh yeah. Where is Vicki Iseman?
