CHICAGO (AP) - Republican John McCain's presidential campaign released a new television ad Tuesday that says Democratic rival Barack Obama is bad for families because he supports sex education for kindergarteners.
Obama's campaign called the ad a "shameful" distortion. The ad, which will run in Ohio and elsewhere, says Obama has a weak record on education and that his only accomplishment was legislation to teach sex education to kindergarteners.
"Learning about sex before learning to read?" the ad says. "Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."
But the legislation was not Obama's, it never became law and it would have required age-appropriate information in schools. Obama has said that means warning young children about sexual predators and explaining concepts like "good touch and bad touch."
