Yes, children need textbooks, but AGAIN you avoided the ISSUE, which was that McCAIN LIED and DISTORTED the FACTS. The legislation was NOT for sex education, as his ad stated. If he felt that the money would be better spent on textbooks, then that's what the ad should have said instead of being DELIBERATELY MISLEADING (DoubleJ, I used all caps for you since you found them so helpful).

As for tempest in a teapot that the "lipstick" remark has become, FS, Senator Obama was not in the least bit open-ended. Here's his exact quote and he obviously is NOT referring to Governor Palin:
"Let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change, too. Except -- and so I guess his whole angle is, "Watch out, George Bush, except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl Rove-style politics. We're really gonna shake things up in Washington." That's not change. That's just calling some -- the same thing, something different. But you know, you can -- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig."

And regarding SC's comments, he is doing his job as a moderator and trying to keep the discussion in line and on topic. I, for one, am grateful.