Obama's Campaign Is More Negative Than McCain's
As Byron York writes in National Review Online, the McCain ad on sex education, denounced as a lie by so many liberal commentators, is accurate. The bill Obama voted for included the following phrase:
Each class or course in comprehensive sex education in any of grades K through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV.
The liberal critics may believe that it's troglodytic to oppose teaching kindergarteners how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases, but I doubt that most American voters do.
Interestingly, despite the meme of liberal commentary that McCain is running a scandalously negative campaign, the Obama campaign is running more negative ads than the McCain campaign.
Here is Amir Taheri's latest article arguing that Obama undercut administration policy in his meetings with Iraq's foreign minister. Chief source: Iraq's foreign minister. Taheri's claims have been bolstered by contemporaneous press accounts, as blogger Tom Maguire demonstrates. Mainstream media seems predictably uninterested in this issue.
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sex education bill
The text you cited in this bill that Obama voted for: Each class or course in comprehensive sex education in any of grades K through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV.
Does not mandate that there be sex education provided for the kindergarteners, only that IF there are such classes given in the school that they must also include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV.
In other words, the sex ed does not have to be taught, but if it is, it must include discussion on the prevention of HIV, etc.
8 yrs ago
folks..are we better off than we were 8 yrs ago ? I think NOT ! I remember FDR...he was super after Herbert Hoover..we survived then & will survive now..but let's give Obammma/Biden a BIG chance...I knew GW Bush was WRONG ! but the merican people are brainwashed smtimes..I've never seen so many problems in this wonderful country...the buck stops in front GW Bush..but he never tkes the blame..his Mom said on Oprah 8 yrs ago"he;s the black sheep in the family" go figure !
Getting inside Obama's loop.
I thought this was one of the best insights into political canmpaign strategy that I have ever read. Would you email me a copy? I misplaced my copy of the Sun, in which I read it. I would like to circuilate it to friends.
I'm a good friend of Grant Ujifusa
Tom Fleming
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