Paris’s Mom Thinks McCain Ad Not-So-Hot

If the Republicans tactics of character assassination works for the third time then we just have to come to the conclusion that America is full of people with very low levels of intelligence

maybe u guys should ask for a refund..its gives us a lil insight to how mccain will spend the budget as president…mcjoke anyone??

Amen Roland! You hit the nail directly on the head. Do we as a country move towards the positive (hope, change, world respect, leadership, taking care of our own people and our own country) or the negative (frivilous, negative, distracting, rich getting richer, war everyone, etc). It’s our choise. Most democracies throught history have fallen due to a lack of foresight by their people.

mc-more-war is desperate and it is showing. He knows he will never run again so he will listen to whatever the sleezeball advisers tell him to do. Some of these sleezeballs are the same ones that brought us bush & cheney. Hopefully America will finally see thru this below-the-curb campaigning. Obama 2008 will be GREAT!!!

John McCain must already know he’s going to lose. He’s just stooping lower and lower. BY the time elections come around this guys going to be despised by America just like the GOP already is.

Kathy Hilton apparently thinks that McSame is ABLE to discuss anything substantial.
Look at what he is telling Americans about his plans for Social Security: ” “Sen. McCain believes this is so important that we do not politicize this debate during an election season.”
In other words: “Don’t you worry your pretty little heads with what my plans for Social Security are. I’m not gonna tell you anyway.”

I’m still trying to figure out why mccain confused the Packers with the Steelers last month while speaking to a Pittsburgh crowd. He said he used the names of the famous Steelers Defensive line of the 1970′s while being interrogated, too bad these guys weren’t even playing when mccain was being interrogated. He is either going senile or he was trying to pull one over on the Pittsburgh crowd, either way this is BAD news for mc-more-war. Opps he did it again!! You can check out the article by going into google and typing “mccain steelers” and picking the first link.
Obama 2008!!!

McCain thinks American people are cattle to be driven by fear shouting cattle herders like Ann Coulter. (Hey, now there’s a like minded veep for McCain!)
Anybody BUT McCain in ’08

McCain is trying to divert the election to trivia that is as shallow and as crass as him. He needs to focus on the millions of people who have been losing their homes and their jobs, and explain where the Republicans were when this all happened.

Prior to this ad, McCain’s OWN website referred to McCain as “A political celebrity, McCain is considered a top contender for the nomination.” — Obama’s had no such reference. — McCain’s self promotion was scrubbed out of his site when the ad was run. — Additionally, McCain has been a frequent repeat visitor to a dozen TV Celebrity-oriented talk shows…who’s calling who what?

I agree with Mrs. Hilton. The comparison is not fair to Paris.
Obama is a fraud and divisive. Paris has none of these negative attributes.
People of America – wake up

i have never like the hilton family, but now I LOVE YOU GUYS, HA HA.
mccain’s chicken’s are coming home to roast.
this reminds me of the backfire hillary got from the ’3am ad” when the small girl in the ad came out BLASTING.
LOLOLOLOL

I am concerned that the voters will vote for McCain because of the fear and distrust he is spreading of Obama. This happened the last two elections and I am frightened it may happen a third. After all, Karl Rove, is “consulting” with the McCain camp. I really cannot understand why Americans are so insecure that they actually fall for all the junk Bush, et al and now, McCain, et al, have and are throwing their way. If McCain is elected, I believe the rest of the world will write American off and just go about their business. We will truly have become the Paper Tiger.

Yeah! Obama is always looking out for the little guy. Let’s do another useless rebate check and raise taxes for the oil companies. Because they won’t add those taxes into the price of gas. I wish Democrats would stop screaming how intelligent they are when they can’t grasp the concept of free market and capitalism. In case you didn’t know it, these are the things that made this country great. Not giving the government more control. And if Obama and the democrats get control we will definitely be heading towards a socialist country. Unfortunately most Americans are to ignorant to grasp this. They like the idea of the gov’t controlling their lives. Give me this and give me that. It all comes full circle and the more you get from them the more control they have. Stop blaming Buch for your poor decisions on mortgages and investments. Nobody forces anyone to sign these documents. They do it of their own free will, then want to be bailed out when it doesn’t work out. Conservatives better WAKE UP or we will be in trouble.

Good job John, Keep spending your money on those trash ads and Barack can just sit back and reap the rewards. I wouldn’t have believed McCain could be so childish if I hadn’t seen him defend such trash in his own words. Is this kind of small thinker that the American people want to run this country, if so, only divine intervention can help us!!

LOL this is hilarious. I wonder if Brit’s parents have anything to say?
We already know that Moses can’t counter so McCain is safe there.

IT IS ONLY A SIMPLE JOKE, NO MORE THAN THAT///

People of America, come Election time,
vote with your pocketbook. If you have lost your job or are grossly underpaid for your hard-earned labor, you can’t pay for your grocery bills, car insurance, gasoline, car repairs, etc.,
then vote for Barack Obama and all democratic candidates. It’s your only hope before we lose our democratic rights the founding fathers fought so hard for. Don’t listen to the rhetoric; listen to your pocketbook!

If this idiot happens to enter the White House, probably I’ll cry bitter tears of pain. I live in Europe, and I already feel the pain if can never make it back to my belove American country.
God please help us!

Sounds like Hilton endorsed OBAMA. Plus the characterization of two blonds in the ad is reflective of the McCain camp’s view of women. He did leave his wife for another woman after she was crippled in a car accident. Think about it! Every other veteran I know is very reverent, private, quite and reserved about their service in War. McCain puts it on a bumper sticker in neon lights, no class. He is exploiting his service in the military for personal gain. I personally find that very distasteful. Man of honor??? OBAMA 2008!!

The ads were just showing how Obama was hungry for “Star Attention” just like Britney and Paris. But to me, I will take both Britney and Paris over Obama in intergity and judgment.
Obama needs to eat some humble pie. He would be a servant to the American people to put their policies in place.

Ask an Obama fan this — if you were in business and the government took 100% of your profits, would you continue to operate the business or would you find something better to do with your time? Then remind them that oil companies already pay 35% of their net income in federal income taxes and some pay as much as 10% of their net income in state income taxes. After you deduct thta from their earnings, they may not have enough “windfall profits” to pay for the Obama “emergency rebate.” Democrats in the Senate have already threatened to nationalize the oil industry. What incentive do the oil companies have to stay in business if they cannot keep any of their earnings? What incentive do all those retirement funds that own stocks in oil comapnies have to invest in oil companies if all their profits are removed? And, what pray tell, would the American public do if the oil companies said to hell with it — every person in America who works for an oil company go stand in the unemployment line. We are closing our American operations and focusing on our profitable enterprises elsewhere. What is it called — the butterfly factor — when you don’t see the consequences of actions that seem innoculous on the surface?

Tyler, the market works this way: Americans pay billions of dollars in taxes, the government buys Army advertisements with some of it, and spends most of it on big companies who sell us missiles, tanks, oh and yes these days they outsource all kinds of other services, including interrogation/torture companies. You probably think you know all about economics, can tell me all about inflation vs stock investment portfolios and blah blah blah, yet you don’t see that running up a national deifict into the trillions and not investing into America– something the Republicans have done– is our largest economic problem today. Go take another microeconomics course, egghead, and then tell me about macroeconomics…

“It 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.” Kathy Hilton says this? The same Kathy whose daughter PARIS – case and drama that soon follwed with the L.A. county sheriff was 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? I see evil in you but not in me and or my family! Give me a break Kathy! Like you really care that people are loosing their homes! You just care because once again, we are reminded that your empty parenting skills have produced an empty-headed, spoiled, selfish and idiotic daughter. Get your house in order before critisizing other homes which are in foreclosure.

“It is a complete waste of the money John McCain’s contributors have donated to his campaign,” Hilton writes.
“It 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. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next president of the United States.”
McCain, R-Ariz., uses an image of Paris Hilton in a new TV ad to imply Obama is an empty-headed celebrity, apparently unaware that Paris’s parents, Rick and Kathy, donated $4,600 to his campaign.
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No matter what happens, I will always love my son even though he has done some things in the past I am not proud of. So, I very much appreciate the Hilton’s position on the ad offensive to the Hilton name especially their daughter.
McCain lost a lot more than the $4,600. The Hiltons were ardent McCain supporters and had held fundraisers for him. That is over. The ad, of which McCain is so proud of, has cost him millions in contributions.
What was he thinking of?

“It 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. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next president of the United States.”
says the lady who wastes millions of dollars a year on hair, clothes, nails,and
dog grooming.

Supporting Obama’s campaign is very hard to do since he changes his stance on issues so often. Also he seems to think throwing more money around, over-regulating big corporations and taxing until the profits are gone is the way to govern. He is a socialist and hates capitalism where our jobs and salaries come from.

If Americans fall for the character assassination, mudball game that the Republicans play, and vote McCain into office, they’ll deserve what they get. It is clear as day to us Europeans that Obama will save your image while McCain will finish ruining what little of it remains, but it’s your choice. Too bad the rest of the world can’t vote– but we have to suffer your ignorant choices. Don’t fob another Bush off on us, America, we’ll cut you loose and leave you hanging, just watch. Do you know your dollar is now worth only half of one of our Euros? Do you know why that is? Vote McCain, then I can buy a hundred dollars with one of my Euros– no don’t do it, I’d rather lose money than see you guys ruin the planet.

I guess according to the McBush(McCain) camp if your a dynamic speaker that inspires your listeners you really have no business being president. Instead a president should be like their candidate a bumbling speaker that no one gets inspired by and few want to listen to. This fits very well since the whole idea of the republican party is that you have a president that the corporations and extreme rich can control. Basicly a puppet. McBush fits the bill.
It is dangerous to those in power to have someone who can actually rally the citizens of this country to action. Obama fits that bill.

The Ad was rediculous. But who cares what the Paris’s think. WE are sick of that family. There is only one way to win my vote Mr. McCain. That would be Huckabee. Otherwise I wont vote or I may just vote for Obama. Exspecially if the rumor is true about obama and the pickens plan, I read an article that said obama was thinking about embracing the boone pickens plan. I think it was at http://www.tboonpickens.com As far as McCain goes with all of his antics this week., I am sick. I really hope the McCain camp cleans up there act. This week has made me want to stay home in november.Has any one seen this video of McCain cussing. Wow what a potty mouth.

I haven’t seen the video of McCain cussing but it wouldn’t surprise me — I suppose he cusses like a sailor like many of his Navy colleagues. Of course, I bet he doesn’t cuss like Reverend Wright and that is a definite plus.

You got to agree with the complaints.
Paris has made a video; what has zero-bama done? Nothing. Zero.
Talkin bout substance, Paris H. has more than Zero-bama.

Elections are primarily referendums. If you like the way things were run under Bush and the republicans, vote for their successor. If not, then you need to vote for someone else. It’s as simple as that. Me I can’t see voting for a retirement age candidate over a candidate in his prime. I respect McCain (at least I used to before the Britney/Paris smear campaign started), but he’s not the generation that is ready to face the new world politcs of the 21st century. I believe the world is entering a new age and it’s time to leave the old one behind if we intend to remain a world leader.

Real Americans are fed up with karl rove tactics and are not going to be duped a third time into picking an idiot for president. They say that when you get VERY OLD you enter your SECOND CHILDHOOD. Not very bright to tick off a political donor. What will he do to America. Things will be worse than the bush administration.

The FISA bill is more complicated than you may get, it wasn’t the place to take some last stand for a lot of reasons. As for a visible record of opposition, yes of course the record is there. Have you never seen the footage when, before we went to war, Obama said something like, “It is not that I am against the idea of war, what I am against are STUPID wars…”

It might be a referendum election if George Bush’s VP was running on the GP ticket but he isn’t. You can’t argue that George Bush believes in global warming or thinks that environmental issues should be taken seriously without getting laughed at — but put the same words in John McCain’s mouth and they ring true. John McCain has long said that the Republicans in Washington failed Americans by not controlling spending … people will remember that … and think what if we elected him instead of Bush.

I really don’t understand where the whole arrogant thing is coming from in regards to Obama. Is it because he won’t get down in the mud with McCain? Is it because he went to Harvard…since when is that a bad thing? I suspect that alot of it has to do with the elephant in the room which is that he’s black (in appearance) and many people just can’t stomach it. I also suspect that what these same people REALLY want to say in the place of “arrogant” is that he’s “uppity” or that he needs to “stay in his place” These are of coarse turn of the 20th century mindsets and socially unacceptible to utter in public, so they peg him with the euphamism “arrogant” but the implication is the same.

His ads demonstrate a total disdain for the intelligence level of the citizens he wants to elect him and have nothing to do with the issues of real concern.

Hopeless, I agree with you, but I am seriously wondering whether his calculation might actually be correct, and he can win because enough Americans aren’t smart enough to see past the silly ads. Will they fall for it, since it is a simple and easy message? Maybe…

McCain is clearly wealthier, wears elitist clothes, has a socialite wife and an elitist life style, he is clearly establishment, and is extremely arrogant. The way he talks down to Obama, disrespects and mocks him in very tasteless commercials. McCain even takes full credit for the surge even though technically it was Bush’s doing, not McCain’s and not only that, Dem’s said that we didn’t send in enough troops from the very beginning. McCain thinks that his completely incorrect version of the Iraq timeline is correct and everyone else (literally) is apparently wrong. Arrogance all the way around from McCain.

Mrs. Hilton is offended because McCain was basically saying her daughter is famous because of her “hype.” Seriously, where are her accomplishments?
I thought the ads were funny and did have some truth to them- that’s why they are upsetting to the Obama people. Obama is humorless because he is so insecure. He certainly has a right to be insecure with that thin, pathetic resume of his.
-Democrat for anyone but Obama

A little humility goes a long way. That’s one of the many reasons I am repelled by Obama. No wonder the press is starting to call him “Prom Queen.”

Obama was raised by a grandmother who
was a VP of the best Bank in Hawaii.
He went to the richest school here
in Hawaii. He was by no means so
called “POOR.”

Speaking of empty-headed, did anyone here see McCain’s long and painful moment of silence at a press availability on Friday? I’ve got nothing against senior citizens–I’m getting close to the magic 65 myself–but McCain’s pause gave me pause.

Mrs. Hilton is offended because McCain was basically saying her daughter is famous because of her “hype.” Seriously, where are her accomplishments?
Clearly missing the point. This is not American Idol you group thinking dim wit, this for the presidency and when people are becoming homeless by the thousands I expect more! I donated to McCain and I wish I could get my money back…

Durant Imboden, yes I saw that, too. I got the impression he is so scripted that he doesn’t know what he thinks until his advisers tell him what to say– exactly like Bush for the last 8 years. I have nothing against his being old, it doesn’t really matter as long as it’s a smart old wise man, but McCain is not that.

A 71 year old man bashing some young girls who could be his granddaughters, just for a few votes doesn’t sound right to me. It smacks of desperation and lack of integrity,expecially when these girls have not done anything to him.

Talking about accomplishments – MaCain graduating 894 out of a Naval Academy class of 899 and coupled with ill temper temper are hardly the stuff presidents are made of. Graduating high from Harvard and being elected a senator from the state of Illonis is a great accomplishment for a kid with no Dad around the house. Law professorship at the University of Chicago? Arizona has nothing to compare with Harvard and Chicago. When did Britney and Paris graduate from Harvard. MaCain with all his Daddy’s previlage would not even be hired as cook at Harvard. No more 8 years of GOP fools. The counrty is broke from mismanagement, wars, Erron scandal, thieves in the stock market, greedy oil companies, falling dallar, 498B dollars negative balance of trade, $10 Trillion dollars national debt. More more lies to start another war with Iran. People open youe eyes to McSame. He is the same as Bush, $10B/Month in Iraq. People what have you gotton for the occupation other than blood and red ink. Vote for a change in November.OOBAMAH is the one.

Mrs. Hilton is a fine person. I’m glad she had the courage to come out against this horrible ad. I hope her daughter continues to rebuild her life, away from the glare of the limelight.
Mr. McCain made a horrible mistake bringing in the Karl Rove campaign operators.

IF SHE DOESN’ THINK HER DAUGHTER IS AN EMPTY HEADED MORAN, SHE NEEDS PSYCHO-THERAPY. SHE HAS TO BE ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S WORST PARENTS…WHO CARES WHAT THINKS OR DONATES!!!! SHE PATHETIC FOR EVEN SPEAKING ABOUT THIS.

Poor Old Mr. McCain—it’s time he enjoyed the porch rocking chair and his favorite novel and warm milk!—- and no thanks to him for bringing baby Paris back into the daily news–it was a mildly refreshing few months without her getting the headlines.

Clintons know how to counter attack the disgraceful,childish and Carl Rove style of commercials coming from the old grumpy man.My advice to Obama is: pick Hillary Clinton as your running mate and win the election by land slide.This country and the world needs an inspirational leader to bring about change for the sake of our children and our grand children.Please,please Obama pick Hillary Clinton as your Vice President!

Rolland – I couldn’t agree with you more. After two elections of individual attacks and dividing the country, I can’t believe that people are going for this again. I guess we’ll get what we deserve.

That add is exactly what we should expect from the guy that FINISHED LAST IN HIS CLASS at the Naval Academy. Not too many brains and the lowest of class. God help us all if we keep “dumbing” down the presidency.

I wouldn’t exactly say I’m a Paris Hilton fan (though I have nothing against her), but what has she done to deserve this? If she were actively campaigning for Senator Obama that would be one thing, but to malign her just to make a cheap political shot doesn’t sit well with me. I have always admired Senator McCain for his character, but this really makes me wonder. Is he afraid he can’t win by his stand on the issues?

Karl Rove’s right-wing talking points have been firmly adopted by all of the mainstream media. For the last several weeks now, every time I tune in to hear what the mainstream media is saying about the election they are “asking” the “questions” “Is Obama up to the job?”, “Is Obama being presumptious?”,”Who does Obama think he is?” God forbid we should ask the same questions of John McCain, a man born to privilege, the son of an Admiral, a man who wears $520 loafers and is married to the heiress of a vast beer distributorship fortune, a man who graduated at the bottom of his class in the Naval Academy and who thinks Iran and Pakistan share a border. No, McCain is a rich old white man, so he looks Presidential. McCain made an ad that mocked Obama by putting him on a dollar bill, and then screamed that Obama was playing the race card when Obama commented on it. The media double standard that favors the right-wing does a grave disservice to the American people.

I applaud Barrack for not responding to such puerile attacks. McCain and his republican supporters have demonstrated their lack of intelligence and ability to debate issues affecting the American people. It is pathetic that someone running for the office of President of the US would stoop so low! However, it is no supprise that every time this country elects a republican we end up in deficits and recessions! America needs real leadership not someone who just got shot down in Vietnam and thinks that a qualification for high office. For over 20years he has been in congress what has he not done that he thinks he will accomplish in 4years? Insinuations and insults will not deter young people from voting for Obama. So lets see who wins this time round, the clear headed Americans or the losers!
John

McCain should change his name to McSame since he is now in lockstep with the worst Presidential Administration and political tactics the Country has ever seen.

I agree with Kathy Hilton, John McCain has no right to compare Paris Hilton to any one. He said he is very proud of the ad and he is having a little fun. I guess he thinks Britney and Paris are dumb blondes and he has the power to laugh at them. We have so many problems presently, people loosing their homes, jobs, high gas and food prices and he is having fun with the money we contributed. I did not expect this from John McCain he is older and wiser, however, I have come to realize that Barack Obama, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears is much smarter than McCain no wonder the Washington post is asking is John McCain stupid.

Americans should wise up and stop wasting their votes. Last time they voted for “a guy they can have a beer with” Today the last thing on their minds is having a beer, that is if you can still afford it.
Please don’t fall for the same trick twice because next time you might be looking for work in Mexico.

Negative campaigning has a very high record of success. Because John McCain hasn’t been able to push through the near-tie he has had with Obama for weeks, it is a smart political strategy to go negative.
Let’s also not forget the Tom Bradley factor. It’s very clear that even ‘progressive Californian’ whites, once they get in the voting booth, may have a hard time punching the hole for a black candidate. McCain needs to focus on making that doubt grow.
Love it or hate it, McCain is following some time-worn strategies that DO work with the majority of Americans – who are basically brainless and easy to manipulate.

McCain should be portrayed in a commercial with Wile E Coyote (always going off a cliff) and Daffy Duck (has incomprehensible hissy-fits).

Dear “HiltonsUnderstandEconomics”,
Now, if the thought that the oil companies will not still be making profits [hand over fist] even after they pay higher taxes ain’t just a teensy abomination of the facts I don’t know what else is! Not withstanding that, why should the average citizen care any more for the profits of the already insanely wealthy than their own well-being? Sure it’s not ideal to take away incentive to make money; which is precisely why the REAL government [the ultra wealthy] need to be shown the value and power of the common person who works a lot harder than they do for so much less and does so quite happily most of the time [I might add]. But this whole Hilton biz is a great representation of how ignorant the conservative stagnation in this country really is—-I mean—nothing like biting the hand that feeds you everywhere you turn. First you bite your consumers by making it virtually impossible to get by without forcing them to start picking locks; and then you bite the hand of your very own donors–who are every bit as wealthy and powerful as you are. But, of course, I don’t mean “you”, but the geniuses running the McCain campaign.

shamik – no – this blog shows “liberals” and moderates believe they have the first amendment right to tell the Neo-Cons exactly what they believe and they believe McCain is attempting to hit Obama with the same low attacks and call anyone that doesn’t agree a communist and un-American. Neo-Cons like you and the Republican Party are hoping to continue control of the White House with intimidation and false accusations. McCain is continually misrepresenting Obama’s views and proposed policies during his stump speeches in attempts to confuse the facts. McCain is an empty headed Neo-Con puppet hoping to use lies to gain the Presidency. Bush used the same tactics to win during the last election and we know what that got us, the worst Administration in history. We won’t let it happen again!!

McCain campaign is fast fading.
It’s in intensive care on
mechanical respiration.

Thank you Kathy Hilton, I am very glad you stood up for your daughter, I would do the same for my children, I hope Britney Spears parents do the same. John McCain said he loved the ad and is having fun at your daughter expense. Mr. & Mrs. Spears speak up for your daughter she had her trials and tribulations lately. This ad was a total waste of our contributions.

Who watches campaign ads?

If you really want to know what is a waste it is our time. Obama will not win – he is not ready and everyone left with a brain knows that. So we must endure months of so called news reports about what Obama said or didn’t say – Like any of it is worth our time to read it or listen to it.
Does anyone really think the American people are going to turn over their country to a Chicago Organizer with 18 months in Congress achieved with the help of Rev Wright and other nuts of CHI Town.
As far the Paris Hiltom Comparison – it was inspired – She has done NOTHING a lot like Palosi yet they are famious and only God knows why?
If you owned a company and your family and others depended on it who would you pick? Case closed. Question who are Obamas friends or has disowned them all?

This is very interesting… I’ll keep up on it!

McCain=Magoo

to DeeDumfromTexas,
Just a quick reminder regarding Bush’s dumbness. The president’s grades and IQ have been proven higher than Kerry’s.
We don’t know any more about Obama’s academic performance than we know about any other aspect of his life before he became the Messiah. I wonder why?

Using these Girls ( citzens ) in a negative manner in any campaign commercial shows a lack of judgement for anyone who is seeking the highest office in the land. It is indeed unbecoming of a man who is in his 70s seventies and can be a grandfather to children the ages of both Ms. Spears and Ms. Hilton to prey on the weakness ( if it is ) for his own political gain rather than trying to be an insipration to them and impart some words of wisdom to them. God Help us if this is who we get for a President come November.We should all pray for the old man to continue to dream and the young man to see visions that will lead us into a a better and inspiring future.

DeefromTexas:
Yes, we get the government we deserve. But that applies to people on both sides of the political aisle. I don’t see PelosiCo or Obama stepping up to do the right things either.
We all (R’s and D’s) eliminate in the primaries all the candidates that really stand for something.

to Notagain, hey great name choice!!
Regarging flipflopping…when a candidate changes a handful of positions over years because of new information, that’s smart. For example, when gasoline reaches $4 a gallon, one might conclude that it is time to re-examine one’s assumptions. Or if one sees how tax reductions help the economy, it’s smart to endorse them.
Howver, when a child changes his mind about a dozen things in a couple of weeks, and there is clearly a purpose behind the changes (which AIN’T idealism), than THAT’s flip-flopping.
Got it?

Americans are the stupidest people on earth. Many seem quite ready to put Mad Dog McCain in the White House on the strength of the dumbest political ads ever created. How willingly they make themselves the play things of Karl Rove and Jack Schmidt, who hate their guts. I have just returned from a trip to Europe and people there just shake their heads in disbelief at the sheepish behavior of frightened little Americans. A sheep goes “baaaa, baaaaaaaaa, baaaaaa!” Your average spineless American goes baaaa, baaaaaaaaa, baaaaaa!” too.

It is a honor for Spears and Hilton to be compared to OBAMA!

You Republicans and McBush have it all wrong. He a celebrity because he’s the only alliterative>
We cant stand BUSH REPUBLICANS, McCain!!

Is it wise for a presidential canidate to say that any American is an emptyheaded person? Sure does speak volumes of what that person thinks of the American people. And are we the mindless sheep that they say we are? It depends on who your going to cast your vote for….the same old BS, headed up by the same old rich white people, or someone who cares enough to say it is time to change the way things have been done and have to guts to stand up for change? Hummm?

“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely,
the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great
and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire
at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
- H. L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

The country is in bad shape because of several administrations not planning for the future and one inept Congress after another. The politicans are just like the bloggers; there is no way they will admit someone of the other party has a good idea and cooperation is not an option. This country has lost its identity; it was founded on the ideals of hard work with LIMITED government. This has been lost to government promising to solve all our problemsa and thus overspending. We aslo have an entitlement society where people think they deserve things without working for it. Just read all the complaints about the rich. McCain is rich – so what; Obama made 4 million form writing a book, good for him. You rewarded for hard work and being smart – don’t wait for the government to take care of you, do it yourself. The problems of this country will be solved by the people not the government.

This is exactly why Rove found it so easy to manipulate Americans-the poster below is complaining about all this but of course doesn’t have a thought in the world about how to counteract it. That’s why Rove’s strategies have won again and again-because of the utter stuppidity of the American population!!!!!!!!
In response to the comment:

Jozy, you say (and I quote): “Is it wise for a presidential canidate to say that any American is an emptyheaded person? Sure does speak volumes of what that person thinks of the American people. ”
My answer is that it is NOT wise for a politician to say this-because it’s the truth. However, any honest person would say that most Americans are emptyheaded because we most cetainly are! Look at the fact that we have no ability to solve the social security upcoming disaster crisis. Don’t blame the politicians on that one-blaqme us emptyheaded Americans. After all, it’s us who elects our leaders and it’s US who could (but don’t and won’t) but pressure on our leaders to face the future disasters and deal with them now.

drew:
Yes, this is just a distraction on a Sunday afternoon. Few are here for any serious reason. I know I’m not.

For a 71 year old guy, he’s pretty stupid. That plate in his head sure comes up with great ideas. Next time McCain use Beevis and Butthead in your commercials. In that way, we can connect McCain with a Butthead. Desperate measures for an oldie.

way to go McLame,
just when you were finally getting a little press after Obama’s trip, you pull a bone-headed stunt like this.
this guy is going down in a ball of flames…………AGAIN !!!

Kim, I’d be more embarrassed that I raised a kid that could be used in a campaigned for a negative comparison. I blame Paris on her parents—I’ve seen her slutty money grubbing mother, acorns do not fall far from the tree in their case.

Bwahahah…oh yeah, McCain (and his moderate dem ways) gets along so well with Bush? Newsflash, McCain and Bush barely get along—-trying to link them together is ignorante.

danny:
Your party affiliation is irrelevant. What is relevant to your objectivity is that you are anti-Obama.
These women should be flattered? So you think that McCain meant to flatter Britney, Paris and Obama? Why of course he did!!! Lol.

Ha Ha – Good thing Ronald Reagan can’t hear all this GOP crying ‘it’s bad to be a celebrity’ idea. It sure worked for him.
Mr McCain, tear down that brain cloud!

To Kitty, McCain flip-flopping not flip-flopping but responding to changes – both started with no off shore oil drilling, both have changed in response. McCain not only changed positions on things in response to energy but EVERYTHING he stood for in the last election. He bought into the neocon agenda – before he was a traditional “old fashion” republican and a fiscal conservative – that I could respect (and didn’t agree with entirely but tend to be a moderate fiscally). Neocons aren’t against government involvement in our lives they just think that government should stay out of maintaining integrity and fairness in business and spend all its time imposing itself on what we do in our private (non-commercial sector)lives. That is what I mean about flip-flopping. I don’t trust him anymore – 4 years ago I might of disagreed with him but I thought he was a man of integrity. Now, all I see is a man that is willing to do anything, say anything, pander to anyone in order to get his time in the white house and this started about 2.5 years ago – honestly think he cut a deal with the Bush administration for party support.

I would demand a refund. What an insult.

Jeffery12342001: you said “No surprise. McCain is an idiot and offers this country nothing but 4 more years of being Bush. His party of Republicans offer this country nothing, absolutely nothing.” (unquote). You’re right. They’ve offered nothing but have damaged plenty of things. The polls show the media is lying through their teeth when they say that McCain is neck and neck with Obama. The right-wing corpies are trying to ‘king make.’ They’ve violated the public trust with their misuse of the airwaves for political propaganda. They should be trust busted like Microsoft had done a few years ago. We need to write our congress people to investigate the media and bust up their monopoly and get so me fair reporting in again. It’s pretty bad when anchors like Katie Couric are threatened by her corporate bosses to keep her mouth shut and not speak about things they don’t approve of. We have media monopoly and media self-censorship in the service of the Republican National Committee.

Well since she doesn’t like the ad, don’t contribute again. Simple as that.

tim:
I think there are two things bringing Obama and McCain closer.
(1) It happens in almost every campaign. Extremes tend to move back to center.
(2) Obama’s stances on issues since his ‘nomination’ indicate there are few philosophical differences b/t the two: FISA, Iran saber rattling, continued presence in Iraq past 16 months, commitment to extend war in Afghanistan, offshore drilling, etc. Add to that Obama’s call for reparations and you narrow any edge for Obama.

Jake,
I have a question for you. Is it possible that the Hilton family ask for refund now that they deem McCain isn’t spending his money the right way?

Obama best qualified? What exactly makes him best qualified….the fact that he is a socialist/marxist, tax hiker, crook, idiot, or compulsive liar?

Americans are getting fed up with the corrupt socialist and his showmanship, whining and blaming. He should be sent back to his corrupt Chicago home base for good. His idea on energy and Iraq are wrong and laughable. He needs some integrity and true experience.

I am still trying to figure out how he got into Harvard—his high school grads didn’t warrant him getting into anything more than at best community college….and once out of college Obama’s fellow attorneys said thought Obama was a poor attorney. Obama’s whole life has been that of a bumbling drug using idiot—and yet some how Harvard past him? It doesn’t make sense.

I’m beginning to like these ads. They ridicule Obama childishly with name calling and such, but in the long run they show the republicans and especially McCain to be buffoons, unable to address real issues and left to go the lowest possible road. Keep up the good work McBush, you make people think twice about your being president.

notafool: You haven’t been reading the papers lately have you? McCain has had lots of position changes in the last couple weeks. What about his recent flip flops on illegal immigration, on tax cuts, on withdrawal timetable (not a bad idea),just to name a very few. In fact, Keith Olberman says there’s not enough time on his 4 year contract to cover all of McCain’s flip-flops . Trouble with you cons is, you have a way of twisting truth and leaving out important facts when it suits your agenda.When I tried to post just now, I just got my post censored by ABC as spam. I didn’t slander anyone. That proves my point that the media are in cahoots with John McCain and ABC is corrupt as all h3ll.

Is this how we choose a president. By deciding which one is not like Paris Hilton. What does this have to do with anything even remotely sane. What about the economy and wow after seeing this latest ad; how about education. Nothing against Paris Hilton; she’s probably doing alot better than most of the voters who fall for ads like this one.

Why would ABC print something from a political blog as news?

Do you think he or his staff would have recognized their contribution and been more intelligent about it if the number had been $4,600,000?

Obama may be a celebrity for all the right reasons by reflecting a change from all the corruption associated with Washington and the Republican Party. McCain’s call to fame, shot down while on a mission, is running thin. This election is for Obama to loose, and he may if he keeps falling for trying to respond to McCain’s negatives. The media is adding fuel to the fire by re-running the negative ads and that only helps McCain. With a $492 billion dollar deficit to explain to the American public, what other issue do you need to go after McCain and the Republicans? Maybe ask: are we better off than eight years ago?

Have you seen McCain with Britney on You Tube?

Although her choice of venue, the Huffington Post is a little curious for a “Republican” donor, you can certainly understand Mrs. Hilton’s displeasure about the McCain ad. If I were her, I would have responded the same way.
If your kids will inherit more wealth than they can ever spend and start doing things in their youth that look … well, like filthy rich kids trying to find their own identify … you don’t want them to be compared to some Chicago political hack who sounds like he thinks he is the Messiah, and has a horde of young followers who sound like they think he is too.
Nonetheless, the McCain ad did nothing more than reflect a concern that a lot of people have and did it in a light hearted way. We aren’t interested in voting for a Messiah. And we aren’t interested in voting for a President of the World. If Obama wants to be those, fine, he’s just in the wrong place.

McCain is so stupid, he insults the people who contribute money to him. What a jackass! His camp is as senile as he is. For anyone who graduated 5th from the bottom of his class to; in any way attempt to call a Harvard grad empty, is a stretch far beyond anything that resembles reality. McCain is out of his league mentally and anyone who thinks that he could hold a mental candle to one of the most intelligent minds in politics is just as dumb as he is. But I tend to forget that there are plenty of dumb Republicans to go around.

Oh, that’s rich.
Dear Mrs. Hilton,
Please contribute to my campaign. I promise to use the money by portraying your daughter in a negative light and to draw a comparison to my rival (whom I have been busy defaming)in order to avoid discussing the real issues that face the nation.
After all, winning is everything, whether I can do the job or not.
Thanks,
J. McCain

Yeah, it’s unfair to Paris and Brittney, they present themselves for what they are, entertainment celebrities, unless the Empty Suit in Chief pretending to be for real!

I think the ad did just what McCain wanted it to. Got people talking. It’s funny to see how many people get so defensive over their candidate Obama. Maybe we should all go put air in our tires to fix the gas price crisis while we are all crying about how sad we are for Obama, Paris and Britney. Yeah, all people we should be looking up to alright, a drunk driver, a woman who abandoned her children and went nuts and then of course the man himself…who pulls the race card everytime someone challenges his issues and won’t have a town hall to discuss this issues because he won’t be able to script his answers by getting the questions early. Good for McCain for running this ad and getting people talking about the election! It takes something this ridiculous sometimes to get the ignorant people of this country to even know there is an election going on. They will turn up the tv if Paris and Britney are on … so finally someone got people watching and listening. Good for you McCain!

OH My G….I was thinking of voting 4 McCain until I found out that KATHY HILTON had donated 2 his campaign!!! I mean REALLY! She & her trashy daughter R nothing but Useless Pieces of Fluff!!! (Emphasis on USELESS!!)

I think the ‘experience’ argument is a worthless argument. They used it against JFK, but he won and was one of our best presidents, as Obama will be. You see, Obama’s ideas are a lot better than mccain’s, and it’s the ideas and intentions that are way more than ‘experience’ because it’s not like he’s going to be sitting up there just choosing what to do on his own.
He’s going to have tons of experts and experienced peole to advise him. It’s the ideology that matters, now how old or how long you’ve been in DC.

If anyone should be compared to the unfortunate stereotype of 2 blondes, it is McCain… after all, he graduated 894th out of his class of 899. Not exactly stellar intellect!

“If your kids will inherit more wealth than they can ever spend and start doing things in their youth that look … well, like filthy rich kids trying to find their own identify”
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Not exactly the worst position for a young person to be in. Much better than being poor and trying to find out who you are.

McCain spends the week running false, negative ads. This weekend he says he’s “not running a negative campaign.”
McCain says “sixteen months sounds like a pretty good timetable.” The next day he denies that he used the word “timetable.”
McCain says during one of the Republican debates that the economy is not his strong suit. Later, he twice denies that he said it.
McCain says that he’s spent his career advancing equal opportunity. During a Florida press conference, a reporter asks for examples. He stammers, stutters, and can’t come up with one.
Seems to be a pattern emerging here. This guy is either so addlepated that he doesn’t know what he’s saying or he lies. Neither alternative recommends him for the Presidency.

Yeah thats right Obama is empty and hasnt done anything with his wretched life. He didnt graduate from Harvard Law and become the first black editor of the Law review. And when he graduated and came to Chicago to work in the community instead of selling out to a money grubbing law firm, I guess he wasnt doing anything either. When he decided to get into politics and got elected into the State senate, I guess he still was heading toward a path of non accomplishment. Then when he decided to run for the US Senate and won (with the largest margin of victory in Illinois history), I guess that was another failure in his terrible life. And while in the State Senate he helped enact state death penalty reform. (Another non accomplishment) And that leads us to today where hes the Democrats nominee for President of the United States, (yeah he really hasnt accomplished anything) Now McCain on the other hand, is full of accomplishments. Many of which are hard to accomplish. Im sure he worked extremely hard graduating 5th from the bottom of his class in that military academy. It also takes a lot of skill to crash 3 planes in the service and live to crash a 4th one and get captured by the enemy. Wow what a great thing he did. then he returns home and dumps his faithful and injured wife for a younger millionairess. (I wish I could do that, but another great accomplishment). I could go on , but you get the point. McCain is a worthless, dumb old fart who needs to retire to a rest home and play with his wifes money until the end. Hes not worthy of sitting in the White House (even for a visit)

For those who like lump the two candidates into the same bowl, let’s get one thing straight, McCain is the one putting out a new attack ad every other day. Whereas Obama is trying to on course and focus on the economy and a bogus war. Individuals that ask questions like “Why do both Obama and McSame attack each other so much?” Obviously are not paying attention.

McCain has to try to put Obama down to try to make himself look better. That’s how the guys used to do in high school whenever 2 guys liked a girl. One would put the other down in an attempt to make themselves look like a better choice. Grow up McCain.

Dennis, don’t be stupid. The ad wasn’t designed to insult Britney and Paris. It was designed to say that Obama is a MAJOR celebrity, just like them. Britney and Paris poll as two of the biggest celebrities in the world. Voters can make their own conclusions about his celebrity status.

Katherine:
As with anyone in the news some people connect with then only because they are celebrities and others for other reasons. To suggest that McCain is not a celebrity would be silly (Where would he be if he had not been captured and then left his wife for a rich woman? Neither of which one is supposed to do).
Einstein, Mother Teresa and Mozart were celebrities. I.e., celebrity status tells us nothing about someone’s substance or lack thereof.

Ironic would be the word I’d use to describe all this. A celebrity candidate attacking another celebrity candidate about the vacuousness of celebrity. Australian elections are so boring compared to the American year long circus surrounding an election. Long live democracy.

chattyway: “I am still trying to figure out how he got into Harvard—”
It’s called Affirmative Action. Obama is the Affirmative Action Candidate. Grades, experience, accomplishments, things you work to achieve…they don’t matter. Heritage, group affiliation…that’s what matters.
For Harvard editor, small deal. For POTUS, big deal.
Obama can talk, for sure…like all Harvard lawyers. But has he done anything significant in his life that wasn’t due to Affirmative Action or being in the right place at the right time? The answer to that is clearly no. For those of you who don’t know, by the way, his primary opponent and main election opponent in his Senate run both were knocked out by divorce scandals. He hasn’t passed any significant legislation in the U.S. Congress. He has never run a business. He was a lecturer, not a professor in Chicago. He didn’t bass a bill in the Illinois legislature until his 8th year when the party bosses put his name on everything. He has never even tried to develop a compromise solution to a difficult issue while in Congress. The man is an empty vessel.
But he does read the tele-promter effectively!!

Kathy, the first thing that comes to my mind when you say this is during the 30s people used movies as a release of depression-tension. To a much lesser degree, John McCain is doing the same thing. He’s adding a little comedy to the situation that is confronting the US. Obama must be defeated! His inexperince is his killer. By using this ad John is not boring the audience, but he’s making the very fine point that his opponent has a thin resume. God bless Senator John S. McCain, our troops, and the entire American people

Mccain has now ended up being stupid by not knowing he was hurting his donnors

McCain just “calls ‘em like he sees ‘em,” and that’s what we need more of in Washington.

McCain’s straight talk express derailed a long time ago. Now all we hear is demagoguery.

“You haven’t been reading the papers lately have you? McCain has had lots of position changes in the last couple weeks. What about his recent flip flops on illegal immigration, on tax cuts, on withdrawal timetable (not a bad idea)”
He didn’t flip on immigration. He recognized the voice of the people and now favors enforcing the border before comprehensive reform. His adjustment is reasonable given the facts of the situation.
He didn’t flip on tax cuts. He supported Bush’s cuts but voted against them because they weren’t packaged with spending cuts, which is a key position he has. Since the cuts worked he now will not rescind them, but will still work to curtail spending. Very rational.
16 months withdrawal in Iraq? He isn’t saying we’ll be out in total in 16 months. He has simply acknowledged the fact that partial withdrawl is possible in a short timeframe, now that the surge has transformed a very bad situation. Anybody with a brain knows we will be there for decades anyway. Why would we give up bases in the most stratgic geography in the region after sacrificing so many brave young men and women. Only self-absorbed liberals would want to do that.

Senator Obama got into Harvard based on academics and affirmative action did not elevate him to the head of the Harvard review while he was there. That accomplishment further attests to his academic ability. what you should wonder about is how Senator McCain gradutated from the naval academy, at the bottom of his class. I suspect family ties (the other kind of affirmative action) got him in and helped him to get out.

McCain went on Letterman in 2001 and claimed that the anthrax attacks were Iraqi WMD attacks.
He said he had SOURCES who told him that it was the Iraqi’s who attacked NBC and two liberals in Congress.
It turns out, the anthrax attackers work for the US in a military fort in Maryland. One was recently accused and committed suicide although he had his trial coming up soon and was pleading innocent. Another man in the same lab had been accused and managed to get a $5 million payoff for being falsely accused. Neither were Iraqi’s. SO… who is the traitor in the White House who provided the false source info to McCain to spread to inflame the public to go to war against Iraq, based on the fears around WMDs like anthrax? WHEN WILL MCCAIN NAME HIS SOURCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
WHO IS THE TRAITOR? MCCAIN?

In a celebrity-focused culture like ours, comparing somebody to a celebrity cannot be bad publicity. What were the McSame people thinking? This ad actually helps Obama by recognizing his celebrity status! Anybody he is not a white blond. The comparison just does not make sense. Perhaps they should have used Michael Jackson.

McCain can and will rant politically about Obama, but his remarks will cause very little damage to Obama’s Image, compare to the massive damage Obama’s own irrational, erratic actions and words are causing his for his fiction-based political image
This is so clear to those who care to examine his character with objective, simple values of integrity. On his trip to Iraq’s embattled troops, one soldier assigned to secure his safety sent a letter that etailed Obama’s open separation an disain for enlisted troops, walking right past every one wanting to shake his hand, even though there was plenty of time, an it is a tradition for all visiting celebs to do. Instead, Obama ignored every outstretched hand, and briskly walked into the VIP recreation center, where he had comfort, high-level attention, and reporters with ‘news’ cameras. No ‘news’ camera showed him ignoring the common soldiers.
Personally, after watching politics since President Eisenhower’s election campaign, I am appalled at the way America votes today! With computers that enable quick and graphic analysis of actions in every part of our land, it is clear that the majority of Democratic Party voters vote in the High-crime centers of the USA. Geographically speaking, it is roughly 8% of the Geophysical area of our Nation that Obama, has his support from. Is this fair representation? Not even close!
That same geographical section of America also has the lowest representation in our Peace-keeping Armed Forces, as Liberals actively seek to abandon our national safety, preferring a life of government handouts to living self-sufficient. War against any enemy is anathema for that minority, who raise loud, raucous protests against those who would rather die protecting America, than allow Murderous Religious Pagans to rape, pilage, an shred their loved ones, homes, an community.
It is not coincidental that the High-crime, High Democratic Population centers also favor altered morals, morals that demand anhilation of the ancient, sustainable mother-father family base, where father is the primary home and community husband, protector, and financial foundation.
High-crime has only one moral focus, an it is Not for others’ best interests, a characteristic trait of every individual Democrat I have met in my 60+ years. This mindset is precisely what Obama displayed during his visit to his freedom protectors, on duty in Iraq. What would he care about their safety, if he was President?
Far worse, what does he care about anyone he would rule over here at home?

Right. What crap.

“And now you claim you “really meant” something else? That sounds like the kind of denial you all try to slam Obama for.”
Obama is a smart guy. He was probably qualified to get into Harvard. If he should have been appointed the law review editor, he accomplishments since then are surprisingly lean, other than a knack for getting elected to offices.
To think he wasn’t helped by Affirmative Action is silly.
But my comments that implied it was the sole reason for him getting into a good school were too flippant. I think he is an intelligent man who is notably unqualified to be President.

Sure, Obama is a celeb because he is well spoken and clever and because he is a person of color who is succeeding.
He is even too glib, as many of his most important statements whiz by the non-nuanced listeners with 90 IQ. The average IQ is 100, so millions are a bit below that, right? Obama says in his stump speeches: “I will restore habeas corpus”. Does anyone actually know what he means? Obama wants to work to restore your right to be charged with a crime before the CIA tortures you.
Register and vote. Bush and McCain intend to veto the bill just passed to end the CIA’s unConstitutional and internationally illegal use of torture. The country needs 60 Dems in the Senate to avoid filibuster. Register and vote absentee. Use your same signature when you register as on your driving license so you can duplicate it when you sign your absentee ballot. 40% of registered voters did not vote in the 2004 election. Only 15% of under 26 voted in the Texas primary, although from all the coverage of HRC and Obama you would have thought it was the Super Bowl. 13% of Republicans under 26 voted in the Texas primary.
If all the people who dont register and dont even turn out when they have registered would write in Ron Paul, they could elect him and restore the Constitution. Its amazing when you think about it.
Only 12.5% of the eligible population voted for Bush in 2004. Only 1/4 of the population voted.

What makes Senator McCain qualified for the presidency?
1) Spare me the POW talk
2) Experience without good judgment is void. By using experience argument alone, we should be having Sen. Ted Stevens, the recently indicted senator from Alaska, as the republican candidate.
So what makes McCain qualified for the presidency?

notafool
Thank you. I disagree, of course, but that is to be expected.
I too wish that Obama had waited until he had more “experience.” Although I’m not exactly sure what “experience” is relevant to the unique position of POTUS, other than just being older (of course, Obama is older than Clinton was when he was elected).
But I select a President based on their policy positions, intelligence, ability to understand complexities, and their ability to make a good case for their positions. I am therefore looking forward to an Obama presidency.

We can disagree on a lot of things. But one thing I am sure of: Damn, Paris is hot!

I’ve read several comments about the concern of electing an empty suite to the Whitehouse. This is apparently not a disqualification as we have had an empty suite in the Whitehouse for almost 8 years. What did GW ever succeed at before getting into government? Has his Viet Nam draft dodging experience made him a good Commander in Chief?

Joyce:
Do you really want the fastest talker to be President?
You don’t think experience counts?
You don’t think backing up the words count?
Policy aside, and i know we would strenuously disagree about policy, the first hurdle should be experience.
And don’t give me the old Kennedy answer. JFK came from a long-time policical family, had been in a war, and had been a congressman a lot longer than Obama. Even so, he made mistakes that brought this country the closest it has been to destruction since the Civil War.
The closest presidential candidate in terms of qualifications was Lincoln, and obviously that turned out pretty good. But that was a one-issue campaign. The country didsn’t even have an income tax. So, I don’t find the situation comparable. The world now is too complicated for a junior senator, even one with a nice voice.
I don’t like Obama’s positions either because he is a radical and lies about it, but the first test is experience. And Obama fails the test.
Next time around, I will give Obama the benefit of some experience, but this time…the presidency isn’t a job for rookies.

“What did GW ever succeed at before getting into government? Has his Viet Nam draft dodging experience made him a good Commander in Chief?”
nonsense, liberal clap-trap.
GWB was a two-term governor of Texas, the 3rd larges state. He came from a long-time political family, had participated in prior presidency campaigns, servced honorably in the National Guard as a pilot, a prestigous position. He had experience (good and bad) in business.
Being a governor of a state is the closest experience to being President. It’s much better than being a Senator since it is an executive function.
Obamas resume is thin as a wafer. Looking good isn’t a qualification.

This must be the first time in history that a presidential candidate has been criticized for being TOO presidential. Should Obama walk around looking NON presidential? Oops, then he would resemble Dubya. This should be considered an advantage, especially compared to McCain, who looks more and more like the son of Dracula everyday.

Though I don’t support McCain (or Obama for that matter), should anyone care what Mrs. Hilton has to say? All that money and she still couldn’t parent. I agree with mhm: who watches campaign ads? I just want it to be over. Congress has sold out the American public and neither one of the candidates is strong enough to do anything about it, so it really doesn’t matter who wins. We’ll continue to get screwed either way.

Too bad…mom.

How would McCain respond if someone exploited one of his children in the way he exploited Britney and Paris?

For all the talk of Mccain the candidate of 2000 vs Mccain the candidate of 2008, finally we know Mccain the Maverick is no more. Mccain has completely flip flop on the same issues that made him the Independent Maverick. Now Mccain is just a regular Republican that can only energize the conservative base with silly negative ads against his opponent because he can’t talk about the issues that are dear to him or about faith. Obama is the anti-Christ, when its Mccain who doesn’t go to church regulary or speak of faith. I think Mccain is already showing the wrong leadership of the country. Even his own supporters who donated to his campaign said he’s wasting their money on useless and pointless ads. No Mcangry.

Mrs. Hilton….I agree with you! Paris is a far nicer person than Obama! But, please forgive McCain. He had to do that to get some attention for his struggling campaign. Thank you for understanding and the best to you and your family.

I am quiet sure Mrs.Hilton cant get that 4600 back , but she sure can show her disgust in the VOTING BOOTH.
When all the chips fall and the people step into that Voting booth come november they will say “heck! the new guy with his VISON CAN’T be any worse than the current guy and his vision for the past 8 years and now McCain wants to continue that” .
‘HECK NO’

The problem with the US of A is that we Americans should have seen this tactic a long time ago from the examples of the Nixon administration. Have you seen “Idiocracy” yet? I liken the Republicans to the people that are depicted in this movie. It’s funny and sad at the same time. We are getting “dumber and stupider” as a nation. It’s easy for other nations to see our lack of insight and disregard for logic and compassion. We are the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn’t take care of it’s people’s health and well being. There are way too many closed-minded Republicans in this country to be able to fix this nation to the way it used to be. We’ve had so many examples of how not to govern that we believe that it is the only way to govern. We are a greedy nation that believes that we are great because of our greed. That’s not what makes us great. We’ve lost our way and our founding fathers would be ashamed. Voting the Republicans out of office would be a start but that’s not going to happen. There are just too many Republicans in America that are so duped that they will never understand and nothing any intelligent person says will sway they’re pig-headed mindset. America deserves better but we can’t change because of the multitudes of bull-headed, money-grubbing, mud-slinging, rich-catering Republicans. America has it’s head up it’s butt and doesn’t even know it. David Wilson for President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the November election, Kathy will be very happy when McCain is president. Happiness will prevail in the land of GOP.

I like the ad, it was funny and it got alot of free press. Results are what matters, and Obama has moved down in the polls–despite the whinning from the Obama dems. If the ad was just a waste of money as the Obama dems spin, then they wouldn’t be whinning so about it.

I liked the celeb ads by McCain. The ads do project the fact Obama is a celeb, not a leader. Obama can’t lead himself and his family to a respectable church for 20 years.

Mccain is just a loser and that why he lost to a loser like Bush in 2000. Mccain is going on interviews supporting his garbage ads. I think Mccain owes Britney, The Hilton family, and Obama an apology. The ad was supposed to attack Obama but Britney and Paris is getting all the heat. Everytime the pundits talk about the ad there calling them names. We thought Mccains gaffes and mistakes were the problem but he has brought his stupid ideology out for the whole world to see why he should never be president. Americans don’t want a president that defends his own stupid ads. Mccain needs to start acting his age and not his shoe size.

The ad may have gotten Mccain tied in the polls but is say’s everything about how he did it and the kind of president he will be because he definately didn’t answer any of the questions Americans are concerned about. He doesn’t have a answer to them thats why he’s trying to distract us from the issues. Americans don’t need to be amused, we need solutions to the problems there facing.
I’m glad Mccain thinks he should run amusing ads that doesn’t solve problems, when Iran is on the urge of accomplishing nuclear weapons, Mccain may think his ads are enjoyable but our economy is on the brink of destruction, the value of our dollar is decreasing, we are in 2 wars for 7.5 years. Those ads are only going to elect the candidate that are addressing the issues and staying on message. That canidate is Obama.

“I side with Hilton” Urma, I wouldn’t brag about that.

Jeff: So are you from Chicago, and did YOU attend that church? If not talk what you personally know for YOURSELF, and just to prove that you are wrong, MOST churches don’t have children sitting in the audience, they are usually in a separate section. Secondly if EVERYONE knew so much about this church that obviously has been around for years, how come all this information just came out this year? Talk what you know please.

notafool – exactly. Thanks for demonstrating how McCain is engaged in character assassination against Obama.

Joyce – I agree with your post and this is EXACTLY why I’m not voting for McCain. He will indeed rely on a team and delegate many of his repsonsibilities – and if his campaign so far is any indication, that team will most likely be made up of the same gang of fools, incompetents and cretins that brought us the last 8 years of Republican misrule under Bush. No thanks. The GOP shouldn’t be rewarded for failure.

Attention-Mich and Fla peoples , Please don`t vote Barack Obama, he wants to butter you all, he needs your support his vote ,after that he knows you are all sucker to vote him , Please don`t that. See , Obama alway blame on Hillary or Mcain for racist, that why Obama knows he will lose , So he use word” racist” to keep his vote alive. Don`t believe what Obama speech. He can`t change life in USA it may take 10 or 15 years to change life. Don`t dream about change a lot,
Follow experinces are imporant than young man runs for presidents, if so Obama will be worse than Bush , damage peoples`s life. Use your judement who you want to vote! Mcain is better than Obama.

Before the RE bubble bursted, I had a Real Estate Portfolio of about 2.5 million dollars. Today that same folio is worth around 1 Million if I’m lucky. I make between 200,000 to $285,000 per year. Let’s say that Obama gets in and I have to cough up another 5-10K per year. SO WHAT. I would rather pay more in taxable income than to lose 60-70% of my Real Estate value under George Bush. With McCain in there. Who knows what our dollar will be worth in 4 yrs or how much lower our property values will go. I’m voting for a Dem President for the first time in my 28 yr voting history.
We do need change.

Jason, congratulations. Yours is the most rational post on this whole board.

All these “suspect” polls that have come out in recent days keep saying that McCain is tied, or leading Obama among “likely” (old, caucasian, middle aged white female)voters. I have news for you, this election will not be determined by likely voters, but “unlikely” (blacks, young, first time voters) voters. Show me a poll covering ALL McCain is tied, or leading. These polls are a set up to steal the election AGAIN. It’s up to the American people to say NOT THIS TIME!

The best defense against Schmidt/Rove/McCain offensive. Focus on the negative strategy. Use their strength (the negative campaign) against them, repeatedly.
1. The takeover is now complete. Sen. John McCain is now rund by the Schmidt/Rove/Cheneyt/Neocon/Haliburton/Swiftboat/Smear apparatus. The same team that gave us Bush, the same dirty politics, the same distractions, the same disaster awaiting the country and economy, is now in controlling the McCain campaign.
2. They know how to win Presidential campaigns. And when let loose in the Whitehouse in just 8 short years – they will also run the economy into the ground, lose 50,000 jobs per month to China and India, send billions a month in US wealth to middle east oil despots who stoke terrorism, lose prime US assets to our enemies, lead us into record national debt, the subprime crisis, Enron and more.
3. They must think we are stupid. Vote Obama and vote against Rove, Cheney and the neocons and show them that you can’t fool all the people all the time. Tell McCain it is sad that he is embracing the same dirty politics and desperate Bush stretegist that smeared McCain, his family and his adopted Bangladeshi daughter Bridget in 2000.

exactly randy, the mainstream news media is owned by defense contractors for gods sakes, do you really think they are interested in reporting facts? the more they can keep the candidates fighting and seeminly close, the more money they make from ads… and of course, it REALLY is not in corporate news infotainment (the major news outlets) to let a true progressive win the white house… they may have to re-hire legitimate and bonafide news reporters (who were all let go after 9/11) to report the ‘boring’ facts that people are so hungry for… obama won’t fix everything, and lets face it, the real change american needs will come from the ground up, but at least obama will open a few portals to the power structure of “our” government that used to be in place to represent and protect the masses, and erode some of the power it has given to big oil, and other corporate criminals

Character is not made during tough times…rather, it is revealed. Well Mr. McCain, your character has been revealed, exposing a much weaker and more vulnerable man than I had previously perceived. Keep fighting the good fight Mr. Obama.

Dr Elroy
Well, the current President leaps to mind.

jock59801
Thank you for that bit, off topic and having really no bearing on the story but nice to see you realize that there is not much that can be said to defend McCain with, so might as well get on board the Negative Express.
Regards,

worried about safety:
Remind me again please who was president for nearly a year (and received a memo in the summer of 2001 “Bin Ladin Determined to strike America”) when we were attacked on 9/11/2001? I thought it was a Republican who spent more time snuggling with the oil industry (oh yea, that has worked out really well too) in stead of listening to Clark’s “running around with his hair on fire” trying to warn any/everybody?
Why would you support a party of a president that has done more to put America at risk (Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Oil…) then any other possibly in the history of America, at the very least in the last 100 years.
Regards,

I think the question that the American people have to ask… after 30 years in the Senate ” WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME McCAIN? “

Let us get straight….working in community service is very lucreative $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$…..Obama did not sacrifice anything to do so and according to the other lawyers that worked with Obama, he isn’t a very good attorny.

She is a bad mother. The proof is in the pudding.

One more time the Republicans’ negative tactics want to win an election by distracting the American people from the real issues. McCain and his rich supporters are playing the emotional social cards to try to divide and conquer by fear. Ask yourself: can we afford to have four more years of economic pain with McCain in the White House? The last thing we need is another political experienced, rich oilman running our government into higher deficits. $492 billions for our national deficit should be the number one reason why McCain should not win. Let his rich second wife take care of him in the style he earned and probably deserves, but we need someone to look after our national interests.

Unfortunately, I do not believe McCain for 1 minute when he says it was all a joke. He sounds like my 13 year old when things go bad….I will not vote for him…

McCain is so busy attacking Obama he can’t watch his own backyard.

The ad is spot on. Obama is a media/marketing created sensation who is famous for being famous. Granted he gives a good speech, as any good actor could. But strip away the teleprompters and adoring crowds and what have you got? A fake of a candidate who’s dangerously ill-prepared to lead this country.

If that dumb ad got him tied in the polls that means we have many dumb Americans? I think not-we have too much to lose with an idiot like McCain- Trust me they are playing with the polls-don’t believe those result-nobody ever polls the young people-we will see in November? Americans are not dumb Mr. McInsane.

to: notafool “But of course, Jock, I didn’t say that. I said he was the law review editor because of Affirmative Action. Please point out for us his accomplishments that would have justified that prestigous appointment.”
DO YOUR HOMEWORK. Review editor is picked by PEERS not the faculty!!!! He did not get in, nor did he receive the appointment because of A.A. – PLUS HE GRADUATED NEAR TOP OF HIS CLASS UNLIKE MCCAIN. Back to affirmative action, my dad got his first job at NBC because of affirmative action – AND HE WON AN EMMY – so don’t talk to me about not being qualified just because someone was forced to consider you because of the laws!!!!

Rolland: I agree with you in every way.
If I can just expound upon that. We live in the information age. Their is no reason for people to be misinformed on the issues. You have the internet at your finger tips. Pop over to Mccains site and look at how he voted for the last 30 year and how he is all of a sudden going against every thing he has done and how he voted. The fact that the media isn’t making a big deal out of that is just another reason we know big business is in Mccains pocket. The man owes to many special interest groups to many favors to be trusted. That would be the add I would be running if I was Obama. The problem with Obama is he has to walk this really fine like Mccain can care less about. That line is hindering how aggressive he can be. That may cost Obama in the end.

jamesp, while we do live in the information age, unfortunately many seniors do not use the internet. Thus the polls show seniors favoring McCain. So to Obama voters out there, make sure you inform the seniors in your family and that you are friends with, what a positive difference Obama will make. I have personally changed more than a few seniors’ minds in casual conversation when I tell them that Obama wants retirees who make less than $50,000 a year to no longer pay income tax. That Obama believes people should be able to retire with dignity. And that he will give the middle-class and poor a break on their taxes by canceling the Bush tax breaks for the rich. These facts really get their attention, as seniors are as worried about themselves and their kids making ends meet as the rest of us. Seniors just need accurate information about Obama.

Lydia, you wrote: “And that he (Sen. Obama) will give the middle-class and poor a break on their taxes by canceling the Bush tax breaks for the rich.”
Only problem is those facts aren’t accurate. A couple making $50,000 and filing jointly will currently have a 2008 federal income tax liability of $6,698. That same couple–after the 2001 & 2003 Bush tax cuts expire–will have to pay $8,100. So just allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire will amount to a $1,402 tax increase for that couple.
Now as for Sen. Obama’s plan for retirees making less than $50,000 to no longer pay federal income tax, that is just one of the many free handouts that he plans of which, cumulatively, will bankrupt the U. S. Treasury. Sen. Obama is full of populous rhetoric and will say anything to get votes. And should he succeed and win the general election, in four years there will be some very unhappy voters. You think the anti-war, pro-impeachment crowd are upset with Congress now, that won’t come close to the anger that the mainstream electorate will have when they realize the consequences of their voting for Sen. Obama.

Lydia, you wrote: “And that he (Sen. Obama) will give the middle-class and poor a break on their taxes by canceling the Bush tax breaks for the rich.”
Only problem is those facts aren’t accurate. A couple making $50,000 and filing jointly will currently have a 2008 federal income tax liability of $6,698. That same couple–after the 2001 & 2003 Bush tax cuts expire–will have to pay $8,100. So just allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire will amount to a $1,402 tax increase for that couple.
Now as for Sen. Obama’s plan for retirees making less than $50,000 to no longer pay federal income tax, that is just one of the many free handouts that he plans of which, cumulatively, will bankrupt the U. S. Treasury. Sen. Obama is full of populous rhetoric and will say anything to get votes. And should he succeed and win the general election, in four years there will be some very unhappy voters. You think the anti-war, pro-impeachment crowd are upset with Congress now, that won’t come close to the anger that the mainstream electorate will have when they realize the consequences of their voting for Sen. Obama.

James Danley wrote :”The Democrats took office on January 3, 2007, and now look where we are just 19 months later!!”
Come on, man.. Don’t bu.. s..
Reps are still in control in senate and so far dems didn’t get anything done except G.I. bill. So it is all about Bush and oil prices. You can’t blame it on dems.. You are so Rove… ;)))

James Danley-
The problem with your scenario is Obama is not talking about letting the Bush tax cuts expire for incomes less than $250,000
Fact checking shows that a taxpayer making $50,000 will fair better (less tax) under
Obama’s plan than McCain’s

Grace – I watched Obamas’ town hall meeting today. An African American man asked – How do you propose to pay for the $1000 stimulus? Obama proceeded to attack Bush for everything under the sun but never gave this man an answer to his question. I’ve observed this to be the case more times than not. I’ve also watched McCain in his town hall meetings and the same does NOT apply. He may not always give the answer we want to hear but gives an answer just the same.

This crap about Obama being a just a celeb is interesting given the fact that the Republicans voted for Ronald Reagan, twice and Arnold S. who are both famous actors. Please come up with an original thought. Anyone who does not see the hypocrisy in this is an idiot.

I thought the ad was good. But I thought the Moses ad was a scream. These ads are not negative at all. THe Obama campaign can’t even take a joke. And, the tire gauge with “Obama’s Energy Plan” was even more hilarious. I like the ribbing. Keep it up McCain. Lighten up Obama people, you all are so thin skinned.

Palindromedary, you paint a very dark picture only because the Liberal Left has been feeding you garbage for too long. Yes we are in a down turn economically. But things are nowhere near as bleak as you and the Liberal Left portray it. In fact, in 2006 the Democrats ran on how “terrible” our economy was. At that time our unemployment was 4.7%. At that time, we were in the middle of a record 54 consecutive months of job growth. AND at that time we actually had two quarters where we took in more revenue than we spent. YET to listen to the Democrats and Liberals back then, you would have thought we were in a recession. BUT now–even though we are not technically in a recession–to listen to you and the other Democrats and Liberals, you would think we were back in 1929. Give me a break.
Finally, the Republican’s did NOT cheat to win the elections in 2000 or 2004. No matter how long and how loud you and the Liberal Left shout it…it is still NOT true. Get over it already…we won back then; and looking at the current polls have about a 45% shot at winning the White House again this November.

The reason why 200,000 people turned up in Berlin to see Obama was because they felt something good about America in his visit. I don’t think Bush or Mccain could raise 10% of that number on a foreign visit. Wake up all you Bush/Mccain lovers, even the rest of the world sees what America needs, why can’t we?