McCain Low-Blow

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/off_base_on_sex_ed.html

Off Base on Sex Ed
September 10, 2008
Updated: September 18, 2008

A McCain campaign ad claims Obama's "one accomplishment" was a bill to teach sex ed to kindergarten kids. Don't believe it.

Summary:

Basically John McCain set out this commercial about a statement that Obama's "one accomplishment" was to teach kindergartners sexual education. Above is the campaign that was shown on TV. The thing is that McCain took what Obama said and twisted it to make him look bad. That was a low blow. What Obama actually said was that "it’s the right thing to do ... to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools." Another statement that this campaign said was that it was "Obamas only accomplishment." Once again thats not true.

"He was a co-sponsor of what became the Chicago Education Reform Act of 2003, which allowed for an increase in the number of Chicago charter schools and required the Chicago Board of Education to enter into a formal partnership with the Chicago Teachers Union to advance the Chicago Public Schools to the next level of education reform. He was also a co-sponsor of a bipartisan bill to help Illinois high school graduates be eligible for in-state college tuition rates even if they weren't U.S. citizens." -FactCheck

Reflection:

I personally think that McCain threw a low blow. Putting up false information like that would be costley because he's running for president. If he puts out those kind of things its bad for his reputation.