NYT Shreds McCain Attack Ad (Sex Ed)

[chill_wind]

Ad on Sex Education Distorts Obama Policy

By LARRY ROHTER
September 10, 2008


“Learning about sex before learning to read?” the narrator asks in the 30-second advertisement, which the campaign says will be shown in battleground states and on national cable. The commercial also asserts that a sex-education bill introduced in Illinois, which Mr. Obama did not sponsor and which never became law, is his “one accomplishment” in the field of education.

Both sets of accusations, however, seriously distort the record.

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In referring to the sex-education bill, the McCain campaign is largely recycling old and discredited accusations made against Mr. Obama by Alan Keyes in their 2004 Senate race. At that time, Mr. Obama stated that he understood the main objective of the legislation, as it pertained to kindergarteners, to be to teach them how to defend themselves against sexual predators.

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In another part of the advertisement, Mr. McCain maintains that Mr. Obama’s sole achievement in education was the sex-education bill. In reality, Mr. Obama not only helped administer a $49 million education project in Chicago in the 1990s, but also sponsored or co-sponsored measures that increased the number of charter schools in Illinois, and expanded federal grants to summer school programs and to historically black colleges.

full text at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/us/politics/11checkpoint.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Yeah but guess what? The $ers still have it on their websites nt

[and-justice-for-all]

2. McCorpse and Moosepatty lying...again???

I am shocked! :sarcasm:

[chill_wind]

3. ...

[symbolman]

4. This SUCKS Bigtime

Utterly Disgusting that McCain and Rove can sleaze this way and NOT be Trashe by EVERY damn paper and cable news station in the US.

This is the UGLIEST ad I've seen in my life and I'm 55 years old, and a political activist.

Someone should be sued and go to Jail for publishing shit like this.

These stations that run this should have their licenses REVOKED.

[chill_wind]

5. A "honorable" John McCain approved this message.

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6. Apology Not Accepted (Time, Joe Klein, if you can believe it)

Swampland, TIME
September 10, 2008 9:03

Posted by Joe Klein

Back in 2000, after John McCain lost his mostly honorable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he went about apologizing to journalists--including me--for his most obvious mis-step: his support for keeping the confederate flag on the state house.

Now he is responsible for one of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen in presidential politics, so sleazy that I won't abet its spread by linking to it, but here's the McClatchy fact check.

I just can't wait for the moment when John McCain--contrite and suddenly honorable again in victory or defeat--talks about how things got a little out of control in the passion of the moment. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/apology_not_accepted.html

McClatchy link: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/margaret_talev/story/52169.html