Websters: Elitist Doofusitis
Posted on 09/10/2008 8:08:17 AM PDT by Mike Bates
John McCain's ad denouncing Barack Obama for supporting sex education for kindergartners when he was in the Illinois Senate hit a nerve. Today, in a posting titled "Does the Truth Matter Anymore?," Columnist E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post expresses outrage on the newspaper's Web site:
And now comes a truly vile McCain ad accusing Obama of supporting legislation to offer "'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners." The announcer declares: "Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."
Margaret Talev of McClatchy newspapers called the ad a “deliberate low blow.” Here’s what she wrote in an excellent fact check: “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.”
Is McCain against teaching little kids to beware of sexual predators?
The subject of Obama's support has come up before. In July of last year, MSNBC's "First Read" reported:
Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells First Read: "You can teach a kid about what's appropriate and not appropriate to protect them from predators out there." In addition, he issued a document showing that the Oregon Department of Education has guidelines for sex education for children in grades K-3 (which includes understanding the difference between a good touch and a bad touch), and that the Sexuality Information And Education Council . . .
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Websters: Elitist Doofusitis
All she has to do is read the legislation. It’s not about teaching kids to recognize sexual predators and keeping them safe from them.
Can anyone access the language of the bill?
One thing that gets me is the obscene interest that liberal teachers and politicians have with encouraging the sex lives of prepubescent children. It is disgusting. Let the parents take care of that.
Nice try WaPo. Wanna put a recorder in one of these classes and see what’s really said? Betcha don’t - or won’t. Wonder why.
Gads, you libs are so easy to read...even more so with journalist libs (a redundancy, to be sure). Simple minds, simple (and faulty) arguments.
There’s no such thing as “age-appropriate sex education” for pre-pubescent children, and anything SIECUS is involved in is filth, guaranteed.
McCain’s right.
LGBT advocates can go into Public Schools and talk to six year olds about sex of all kinds and do not have to undergo a CORI check. But my Kiwanis club dioes because we run a RIF program. Go figure.
BS! You don't have to teach a child under the age of 6 what these perverts will do to them or what's ‘inappropriate behavior’.
“Stranger Danger” works just fine!
He looks a little like the people he is talking about....
Perhaps Obama, at tomorrow's luncheon, is going to discuss the bold portion above with Bill Clinton.
First of all, teaching little kids about sexual predators is the job of parents, not the State.
Second, ‘teaching about predators’ isn’t exactly what’s being taught, is it?
How about a look at the curriculum and teaching guides?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
When I was a child, I was taught it was a Bad Thing to get into a car with someone you didn’t know, not to take candy from strangers, and not to talk to someone you didn’t know while alone. I didn’t get detailed diagrams or specific descriptions of Why It Would Be Bad to shatter what innocence I had, and fortunately I never had any problem.
If Bill can keep his mitts off the waitress long enough. .. .
What Obama is trying to do is the same as what Hillary wanted. Take the childhood away from children and indoctrinate them into their way of thinking earlier in life. Let our children be children. The communist way is to infiltrate our schools as soon as possible. Get the children indoctrinated when they are 3-4 years old.
Dionne is always amusing because he has this persona of being a reasonable, mild-mannered guy on TV. Then you read his columns and he’s always ranting about the evils of anyone to the right of Ted Kennedy.
Maybe he took lessons at the Dick Durbin School of Hiding Your Radicalism.
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