McCain ad hit by Planned Parenthood: The Swamp
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Posted September 12, 2008 12:26 PM
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by Frank James

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is striking back at Sen. John McCain's controversial anti-Obama TV ad in which the McCain campaign misleadingly suggested that the Democratic presidential nominee, as a state lawmaker, supported the teaching of "comprehensive sex education" to kindergartners.

The PPAF is retaliating with its own ad in which it says the legislation Obama supported was actually an effort to teach young children to protect themselves from sexual predators.

As we reported earlier in The Swamp and as other journalists have said as well, the Illinois legislation called for the age-appropriate teaching of young children to instruct them on the difference between good touching and bad touching.

So the McCain ad distorts the legislation and the nature of Obama's support.

The ad says in part:

"Doesn't McCain want our children to protect themselves from sex offenders? Or after 26 years in Washington is he just another politician who will say anything to get elected?"

PPAF is calling to the McCain campaign to take the offending ad down.

Here's a snippet from PPAF's press release:

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund calls on the McCain-Palin campaign to immediately pull down their dishonest ad attacking Senator Barack Obama for supporting a bill intended to help protect children from sexual predators. The ad is doubly misleading because it misrepresents the substance of the bill. In 2003, Planned Parenthood worked with Illinois state legislators to introduce the bill highlighted in Senator McCain's negative ad.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund also released it's own ad in response to the McCain campaign's false and dishonest attack ad against Sen. Obama. The ad, called "Another Politician," sets the record straight on Obama's support for a bill intended to help children recognize inappropriate touching and highlights John McCain's propensity to play loose with the facts.

"John McCain's latest ad is yet another example that he will say anything to get elected," said Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards. "In ad after ad, he's made false statements and twisted the facts. In this case, he is dishonestly attacking Senator Obama and distorting a bill that Planned Parenthood helped introduce in the Illinois State Legislature and which was intended to protect children.

In January 2008, Mitt Romney echoed a similar sentiment, telling FOX News, "I think Senator McCain is willing to say anything to try and get elected. He's been looking for this job for a long, long time."

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John McCain's campaign is a disgrace. His constant lying is an insult to most people's intelligence.


Here is a qoute from Barack Obama from 2004 talking about sex ed for kindergardners:
"Nobody's suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it," Obama said at a campaign event in 2004. "If they ask a teacher 'where do babies come from,' that providing information that the fact is that it's not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that's going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards."
Now while I personally could care less lets not pretend like the only thing Obama was talking about was appropriate and inappropriate touching. Swamp writers saying that are just flat out lying. Its in Obamas own words. Just report the facts thats all.


This is typical of the Republican party now a days. They twist and distort anything to make it appear that they are the ones doing something, when in reality all they are concerned about is maintaining the status quo and retaining power. The Republican party is a sad pathetic sight.
I am an Independent voter, not a Democrat and this is my personal opinion based on what I have seen and heard throughout this campaign from the McCain Palin camp.


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Still goin' out with right wing guys
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Just maybe if Bristol had received a little information regarding the consequences of teen sex she would not have gotten pregnant.
And you have to wonder where mom and dad were when this happened. Not very good parenting abilities.
And were any statutory rape laws that were broken?


If you read the bill that Obama supported it gives k-3 complete anatomical instruction, discusses same sex relationships etc, etc. Obama does support comprehensive sex education for Kindergartners...sex ed before they learn to read.


Get yourself to the Illinois legisltive website and read both versions of the legislation and both of Sen. Obama's votes. Each version is very clear on the "mandatory sex education for all K - 6th graders". One version has no age-appropriate language which he voted yes for and the other simply added the age-approprite language, which he also voted yes for. However, the language of the legislation clearly spells out the context of the educational material which is not simply "where not to be touched".

The only positive forObama aboutthis fiasco is that he can actuall claim, without telling a lie that he did vote Yes on legislation instead of Present as he has done more than 65% of his votes.

Now, you could call this a flip-flop or an "oop's" I didn't really read the entire legislation before hitting the yes button but the facts are still the same. The Swamp is pushing outright lies.


Springfield - Speaking of lies, where the heck did you get the information that Senator Obama voted "present" on 65% of his votes? I am confident you can't provide a link to that number.

Absent such a link, I have to assume you are lying. Everything I have read indicates that the Senator's "present" votes constituted a low single digit percentage of the thousands of votes he made in the Illinois Senate.


Springfield - Me again. I decided to take pity on you. It occurred to me that you may not know how to find actual truth on the web. http://votepresent.com/

Check it and you'll see that Senator Obama voted present about 3% of the time inthe IL senate. Not the 65% you lied about.


McCain wears a Navy hat all the time. Does the Navy like a habitual liar to wear their hat? McCain is giving the Navy a bad name.


You've been played by Obama.

It was disingenuous of Obama then (debate with Keyes in 2004), and now (rebutting McCain's ad), to justify the legislation by giving the example of his daughters needing to learn about inappropriate touching. The Illinois School Code already had a section for teaching kindergarten and elementary
students about the dangers of abuse, inappropriate touching, predators, etc. - Sec. 27.13-2. The bill Obama supported was not for the purpose of teaching young children about abuse, inappropriate touching, and the dangers of predators because that law already existed.

What was new in the bill is the mandate for STD education in grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 to be added to the already existing mandate for STD education in
grades 6-12. Other topics that were originally intended for students in grades 6-12 are pushed down to K-12, as well.

What the bill did was take the sex education section of the Illinois School Code that was originally legislated for students in grades 6-12 and pushed
it down to grades K-12.

If the bill was intended to keep sex education age-appropriate, as claimed, it should have been applied to section 27-13.2, which addresses the sexual and safety issues younger students face.

Furthermore the bill Obama supported omitted schools' obligation to give not less than 5 days written notice to the parents or guardians of pupils before commencing sex education classes or courses so that they may opt their
students out if they so choose. This requirement exists in section 27-13.2, but does not exist in the bill Obama supported.

Planned Parenthood is going to look extremely foolish when the premise of their ad is easily proven to be false, all because Obama distorted the truth about the bill.


Seems to me that the legislation was written with the best of intentions but with the potential for the worst of results. Whatever Mr. Obama may have intended the teaching would have been done by liberal faculty. And the question is, Can we ever trust liberals? Perhaps, as long as we always expect deliberate perversion of good intentions and the worst imaginable implementation.


I want to speak frankly for a moment. Younger and younger girls (8 & 9 years old) are becoming young ladies--if you know wha I mean. I think it's important they learn age appropriate information. I think if Palin should spent a little more time with her daughter. Let's be realistic, if you let your daughter have a boyfriend, then make sure she's educated.


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