Yes, Obama voted for Sex Ed for Kindergartners

Barack Obama's campaign has attacked John McCain's honor, for apparently no good reason.

According to the Politico, The Obama camp was upset at a hard-hitting McCain ad:

"Obama's one accomplishment?" the narrator asks. "Legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."

But apparently not having any substantive complaint about the facts in the advertisement, they instead decided to personally attack John McCain:

Bill Burton, Obama's press secretary, responded in a statement: “It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls – a position that his friend Mitt Romney also holds. Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn't define what honor was. Now we know why."

The reason they couldn't attack the ad on substance is that Barack Obama DID vote for a bill that did exactly as McCain claimed. Here is the bill's text:

23-33 (a) The program established under this Act shall include, but not be limited to, the following major educational areas as a basis for curricula in all elementary and secondary schools in this State: human ecology and health, human growth and development, the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and social responsibilities of family life, including sexual abstinence and prevention of unintended pregnancy until marriage, prevention and control of disease, including age appropriate instruction in grades K 6 through 12 on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV AIDS, public and environmental (???) health, consumer health, safety education and disaster survival, mental health and illness, personal health habits, alcohol, drug use, and abuse including the medical and legal ramifications of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, abuse during pregnancy, sexual abstinence until marriage, tobacco, nutrition, and dental health.

Note that they even changed the law to cover Kindergarten, where it used to start at 6th grade.

Campaign commercials tend to cast the opponent in a bad light -- it's the point. So it's normal to respond by noting what you really intended. It's not normal to go off the deep end and personally attack your opponent as dishonorable simply because you can't think of a good reason to teach the "prevention of sexually transmitted infections" to a 5-year-old.