Obama’s Lying Ad

It seems like a candidate who is constantly accusing other people of lying about him would refrain from lying about his opponent. 

ANALYSIS: Obama’s campaign misleadingly paints McCain as an opponent of embryonic stem cell research to score points with independent and female voters in Wisconsin, the birthplace of the field.

Montgomery is a Wisconsin woman who appeared in a similar ad supporting Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s re-election bid in 2006. That television ad accused his opponent, then-Rep. Mark Green, of being against the work.

One difference: Green had a record of voting in Congress against the use of tax money for research involving the destruction of embryos. McCain does not; he has supported the research that many say could unlock cures to disease.

In fact, McCain voted in 2006 and 2007 for bills that would increase federal funding for the research and lift President Bush’s restrictions on the work. His stance has angered many social conservatives in his own party but won him praise from advocates for the research. President Bush vetoed those bills.

To back up its claims that McCain opposed the research, the Obama campaign pointed to a letter he signed with 20 Republican lawmakers in 2000 asking the National Institutes of Health to block proposed studies on stem cells.