More politics, because I am lazy

Since I started this blog with a political post, I guess I’ll continue it with another ad by the McCain campaign.  I’ve never actually managed to this one on TV, except during news shows and blog posts where they discuss the accuracy (or lack thereof) and morality of it.  The general thrust of the ad is, on the face of it, the standard attack that Barack Obama is inexperienced – he “hasn’t made a significant mark on education,” it tells us.  This is really just a preamble, though, to the revelation of the ad – that Barack Obama supports teaching sex ed to kindergarteners.

I don’t suppose it needs to be said that the allegations aren’t true.  What Obama supports is teaching children about how they should deal with touching they feel is inappropriate, something I doubt McCain is against either.  But is it effective?  I’m still not sure.  It seems to me that the target market of this ad is people who don’t pay attention to news shows which debunk the ad.  If they do pay attention, it just makes McCain look bad, launching an attack that isn’t true.  But there hasn’t really been a fallout from this that I have seen – quite the opposite, in fact – so maybe people just don’t pay attention

~ by sthanley on September 15, 2008.