Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad

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   idredit on August 5, 2008 at 8:09 pm

   That’ll do it.  That’ll teach them.

   Ya think?

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     dada on August 5, 2008 at 8:29 pm

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   Oscar In Dallas on August 6, 2008 at 6:26 am

   That’s too funny!

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     idredit on August 6, 2008 at 9:03 am

     The Hilton response has now received wider exposure…picked by AP – you bet the McCain camp did not anticipate:

     Paris Hilton issues tart rebuttal to McCain ad

     WASHINGTON – Attention, America: Paris has spoken. Paris Hilton, the blonde, doe-eyed celebrity thrust into the presidential campaign in an ad by Republican candidate John McCain, issued a tart rebuttal Tuesday, albeit in a scantily clad, tongue-in-cheek kind of way.

     Last week, McCain launched an ad comparing Democratic rival Barack Obama to Hilton and Britney Spears, suggesting Obama was no more than a celebrity candidate unready to lead the nation.

     Hilton initially shied away from the debate over the ad and its effectiveness. But she responded Tuesday with a spoof on the comedy Web site Funny or Die.

     “Hey America, I’m Paris Hilton and I’m a celebrity, too. Only I’m not from the olden days and I’m not promising change like that other guy. I’m just hot,” Hilton said, speaking as she reclined in a pool chair in a revealing bathing suit and a pair of pumps. “But then that wrinkly, white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I’m running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude.”

     “I want America to know that I’m, like, totally ready to lead,” she said.

     She then discusses energy policy, and suggests a hybrid of McCain’s offshore oil drilling plan and Obama’s incentives for new energy technology.

     “Energy crisis solved! I’ll see you at the debates,” she said

     McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said Hilton appears to support his candidate’s “all of the above” energy solution.[.]

     Hilton’s mother, who with her husband donated $4,600 to McCain’s campaign earlier in the year, has said McCain’s ad is “a complete waste of the country’s time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs.”

     Hilton’s rebuttal includes plenty of humor at McCain’s expense.

     An announcer calls him “the oldest celebrity in the world, like super-old, old enough to remember when dancing was a sin and beer was served in a bucket,” and asks, “but is he ready to lead?” [.]

     What is it about the McCain crew?  Clueless. They’ve written off a huge segment of young, tuned-in voters who’ll be voting for the first time this year.  

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   boran2 on August 6, 2008 at 10:50 am

   What’s surprising is that she comes off as something more than a complete airhead.  She’s a better speaker than McSame, not that besting him is any great feat.

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     shergald on August 6, 2008 at 11:49 am

     Seems to me that the ability to anticipate consequences is an important trait for any president to have. Look at what happened to Bush. Apparently the McCain camp thought that there was no cost to using celebrities for political purposes without their advice.

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       idredit on August 7, 2008 at 9:57 am

       Maureen Dowd in her (NYT) essay: McCain’s green-eyed monster has this:

       “Now John McCain is pea-green with envy. That’s the only explanation for why a man who prides himself on honor, a man who vowed not to take the low road in the campaign, having been mugged by W. and Rove in South Carolina in 2000, is engaging in a festival of juvenilia.

       The Arizona senator who built his reputation on being a brave proponent of big solutions is running a schoolyard campaign about tire gauges and Paris Hilton, childishly accusing his opponent of being too serious, too popular and not patriotic enough.

       Even his own mother, the magical 96-year-old Roberta McCain, let slip that she thought the Hilton-Spears ad was “kinda stupid.”

       [.]

       McCain’s 2000 strategist, John Weaver, was equally blunt with Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter: “It’s hard to imagine America responding to ‘small ball’ when we have all these problems.”

       Some of McCain’s old pals in the Senate are cringing at what they see as his soulless transformation into what he once scorned.

       “John’s eaten up with envy,” said one. “His image of himself was always the handsome, celebrity flyboy.””

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