McCain's latest ad distorts Obama policy

I'm lovin' the reality checks the New York Times is doing lately. This is what it comes down to in the final months before Election Day, unfortunately. Instead of focusing on the issues, we're focusing on spin. And accolades are in order to the media (correction: some media) for doing their job properly and calling these politicians out.

Perhaps you saw Mr. McCain's most recent TV spot chastising Mr. Obama on his education policies. It criticized the Hawaiian native for favoring "comprehensive sex education" for kindergarten students.

"Learning about sex before learning to read?" the narrator asks. The accusation however, disproportionately skewed the record.

The main objective of the legislation McCain speaks of pertaining to kindergarteners, is to teach them how to defend themselves against sexual predators, not to teach comprehensive sex education like it would for age-appropriate students. In fact, the legislation WAS comprehensive, vis-á-vis grades K-12, not education-wise.

Nice spin there Mac. I wonder if Barack will deem him a "skilled politician" as well.

[Source: nytimes.com]

McCain hits back hard with new education ad!

Requisite reply from Obama camp:

"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.

Mudslinging: always entertaining, often perverse. Your turn Sen. Obama.

[Source: thepage.time.com]

Obama upbraids McCain on education

In a new TV spot, the Illinois senator takes aim at the self-proclaimed agent of change for his plans on education. 

[Source: my.barackobama.com]