How low will the McCain campaign go to try to win this election? It has become apparent that McCain and his advisers are going to do whatever possible to steer votes away from Barack Obama. The latest flat-out blatant lie is as vile as they come. His latest ad is accusing Obama of supporting legislation to, as he put it, “to offer comprehensive sex education to kindergartners.” The tone of the ad is “Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama, Wrong on education, Wrong for your family.”
Margaret Talev of McClatchy newspapers states, ” This is a deliberately misleading accusation. It came hours after the Obama campaign released a TV ad critical of McCain’s votes on public education. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for but was not a sponsor of legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12. But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach ‘age-appropriate’ sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators.”
Wow! I guess McCain could care less about our young children knowing what is inappropriate in this age of increasing sexual predators. Worst off, he’s deliberately trying to fool Americans into thinking all this bill was about was teaching Sex Ed to 5 year olds. This is the same technique they are using for Sarah Palin and her “I said thanks but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere, when in fact she supported it up to the time it started gaining negative publicity. It’s also the same tactic used by the GOP to make Americans think Obama will raise taxes for everyone, when in actuality, he is only planning on raising taxes for 10% of Americans.
According to Tax Policy Centers updated analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates’ tax plans, the truth is in the pudding.
The two candidates’ tax plans would have sharply different distributional effects. Senator McCain’s tax cuts would primarily benefit those with very high incomes, almost all of whom would receive large tax cuts that would, on average, raise their after-tax incomes by more than twice the average for all households. Many fewer households at the bottom of the income distribution would get tax cuts and those tax cuts would be small as a share of after-tax income. In marked contrast, Senator Obama offers much larger tax breaks to low- and middle-income taxpayers and would increase taxes on high-income taxpayers.
Will McCain and Palin ever tell the truth during this campaign? I guess the truth is subjective, and the GOP’s Objective is the White House, by any means necessary.
