McCain ad: Education
By Jeremy Hinton | Saturday, September 13th, 2008 | PoliticsPlease tell me on what planet you can be proud of a campaign that produces this.
Showing Obama looking down and smiling while making a (demonstrably false and mischaracterized) statement about teaching sex to kindergartners? It’s like abused kids becoming abusive parents, and McCain is acting out South Carolina 2000 in role-reversal. Only this time it’s the actual campaign, front and center, and not back-alley groups. What’s next, trying to link Obama to NAMBLA?
I try to be funny, but this just makes me ill.
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4 Responses to "McCain ad: Education"
You are right. The bill was not one of Obama’s accomplishments. Because while he voted for the bill in committee, showing that he did approve of extending sex education about sexually transmitted diseases to kindergarten classes, the bill never became law, so it wasn’t really an “accomplishment”.
If you need to read the bill, I’ve got it up at one of my web sites. I find that actually reading what a bill says and how it is being changed is a better way of learning the truth than listening to campaign people.
Even the bill’s sponsor eventually decided it wasn’t a good idea to change sex education for sexually transmitted diseases from 6th grade to Kindergarten, so she asked to amend it back.
Which of course is further proof about the bill.
But Obama didn’t write the bill, he didn’t have much to do with the bill other than voting on it, and it’s only an “accomplishment” in the same way all his other legislative “triumphs” belong to him.
Jeremy,
When asked about this last year, Obama’s campaign spokesman Bill Burton sent the SIECUS guidelines to MSNBC as a reference to what should be taught to kindergartners.
Those guidelines include appropriate touching, discussion of body parts, the birth process, homosexuality and masturbation for Level 1. Ages 5-8.
From the report i saw, the SIECUS guidelines were sent to MSNBC as one example of what was out there already for K-3 grades, not as an endorsement of a specific curriculum. He also specifically cited the desire to address what was inappropriate touching to help prevent child abuse. I have not read the actual bill yet, but my perception is that it does not go into detail.
Regardless, its not only the argument of facts, its the tone, timing, and visual imagery of the ad that i find offensive. The choice of imagery together with the narration is deliberately playing to a subconscious level, trying to link Obama to someones creepy uncle who seems to enjoy tickling kids a little too much.
Excellent, truthful ad, and par for the course in modern campaigns. If Obama wasn’t sinking like a stone, I doubt Jeremy would be whining about it.
If this one bothers you, better get a bigger box of kleenex.
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