Obama: Sex education to Kindergarteners? Campaign run by corrupt executives?

According to John McCain, yes.

For several weeks now, John McCain has been pounding Barack Obama for "forcing sex education upon Kindergartners at school." Obama has not disputed his support for sex education. Really?

According to media "investigations" on CBS news, yes.

What?!

First, let's take a second to note the fact that CBS hasn't even bothered to do any real research on this - they're just taking the National Review's word for it. READ the article, what isn't horribly twisted around is buried deep within the article. Meaning: Nobody is going to see it. And this is the problem I have with a lot of news media today. Biases aside, they just don't do the work to bring you information. A couple months back, I wrote to ABC about an investigation they did on earmarks, where they found that the Democratic congress was basically ruining America... Conveniently they outsourced the investigation to Citizens Against Government Waste, a group paid for by the Republican party, with distinctly strong ties to John McCain. Needless to say, I did not get a response to my email pointing out all those factual inaccuracies.

Anyway, back on to topic here. SEX EDUCATION FOR KIDS?! OMGWTF?!

Well, let me point out a couple things here:

a) The bill he supported was for comprehensive sex education- for 6th-12th graders. AND, "age-appropriate" sex edcuation for K-5 students. So, this includes things like "stay away from strangers," "don't let older people touch you in a bad way" etc... leading up to "your body will go through changes" for the fifth graders.

b) As always, the parents can easily opt-out of this. We ALL had the exact same thing growing up - your parents could choose to sign the permission slip for you to go to the Robert Crown sex ed center or whatever. Basically everyone's parents chose to have their kids go... because they're not stupid. Ignorance doesn't work so well in the real world.

c) It wasn't a big giant controversial issue like McCain is making it out to be. These are widely accepted standards for sex ed in schools, Obama just happened to be in the Illinois State Senate when they were passing the bill again.

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