In an interview today, John McCain stood by his claim that Barack Obama wants to teach kindergartners about sex.  He also said he had documentation to back it up, and that the documentation was "on our website".

So I tried to find it.

Just clicking around in the obvious places didn't dig it up.  Fortunately, McCain's site has a search box (oddly, Obama's doesn't), so I did the obvious search, and came up with... nothing.  You can see the results yourself.

Senator McCain, please call your web site admins.

Now, when McCain made the claim in this interview, he weasel-worded it: he said that they have proof that Obama "strongly supported that legislation".  True enough.  But the issue isn't whether Obama supported the legislation, of course, it's whether the legislation is about what the McCain campaign says it's about ("comprehensive sex education for kindergarteners", in the words of the interviewer, which McCain did not reject).  McCain's claim is first of all a slur on the legislation, which then indirectly becomes a slur on Obama.

But McCain isn't even providing the text of the legislation, at least not where anyone can find it, despite saying that he is.

I wish the Des Moines Register interviewer had been a bit faster on her feet, and pressed McCain on the difference between Obama supporting the legislation (yes, he did) and the legislation being what McCain claims it is (no, it's not).  As an interviewer, you have to walk into a situation like that knowing that the candidate is not going to play by intellectually honest rules of rhetoric; but if you're quick enough, you can force the specificity that the candidate wants to avoid.

Eventually, I found the legislation elsewhere.  It's linked to from FactCheck.org's page about this; if you want to go directly to the text itself, it's right here: Illinois Senate Bill 99 (SB99).