McCain Hits Pay Dirt. AP: “McCain’s ‘Celebrity’ Taunts Are Bugging Obama”

Posted by Bill Dupray on Aug 11 2008 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Looks like Johnny Mac is warmed up now and throwing some heat. He tweaks Obama’s precious self-esteem and there’s Barry, sitting on the floor, feet out in front, with tears streaming down his face.

In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama. For the second time in two weeks, he aired a TV ad Monday rebutting Republican John McCain’s claim that Obama is little more than a celebrity, like the blonde hotel heiress.

The first time, Obama dismissed the assertion as “baloney.” On Monday, Obama took a different tack with a commercial that says McCain, not he, is “Washington’s biggest celebrity.”

The back-and-forth may seem as frothy as a boardwalk milkshake in mid-August. But it suggests McCain is making some headway in trying to fight the campaign on his terms. [snip]

Even some Republican strategists questioned whether the strategy was smart or dignified. And Hilton herself produced a video poking fun at McCain that drew large Internet viewership. But Obama’s latest ad suggests the “celebrity” taunt has some sting, and efforts to dismiss it as silly have not been effective.

“They woke up this weekend and figured out that that ad resonated and they needed to do something about it,” said Terry Holt, a Republican strategist.

Although the McCain campaign was lampooned for its Hilton ad on late night television and blogs, it kept hammering at the celebrity theme. A McCain TV ad introduced last week showed Obama waving to cheering crowds, along with his picture on the covers of the magazines GQ, US Weekly and Vanity Fair.

Holt, the GOP strategist, said, “If the celebrity issue were not hurting them, they would have ignored it.”

Look, the guy was on the covers of GQ, US Weekly, and Vanity Fair, just like all the other actors in Hollywood. Maybe he should have called the NRA to see if he could get on their August cover and he might not be coming across like the thin-skinned, lightweight metrosexual he is.

Oh, and by the way Barry, “There’s no crying in baseball.”

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