First watch this:

I’ll give you a moment to vomit in the toilet of politics, wipe your mouth with the towel of common decency, and then go hug your kids and loved ones.

And then understand that common decency has just been spit out the window.

What the ad is referring to is legislation that Obama wrote to help elementary-age kids identify Stranger Danger; and to help parents teach their children about Stranger Danger.  Never mind the overtones of “the scary black man is coming to steal your children,” (watch the photos of Obama they chose and his facial expressions.  They picked the “scariest black man” photos they could.  I mean, they even went so far as to make Obama’s head move around like he’s some “shifty uppity negro.”) Never mind the complete lie about the so-called “monopoly of public education.”  Public school is the most successful government program in U.S. history.  More successful than Medicare/Medicaid; more successful than Social Security.  It affects every American child.  If you want to get my 62 year old Dad (who, except for two years, was a public school teacher his entire professional life and just retired last year) going on a 2-hour rant, just degrade public schools.

What this really shows is McCain selling out his campaign to Karl Rove.  Rove beat McCain – I mean Rove helped Dubya beat McCain – in 2000 by starting a phone poll accusing McCain of fathering an illegimate black child.  Rove did it in South Carolina.  

McCain has hired the same Rove team for his own campaign.

Update [2008-9-10 8:25:49 by Steven D]: Here’s the Obama campaign’s response to McCain’s lying ad:

“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.”