I have no problem with this Funny or Die bit starring Paris Hilton - I guess it's sort of amusing; she reads her lines okay and looks fairly good in the bathing suit. What I do have a very very big problem with is this response to the video from John McCain's spokesperson Tucker Bounds:
Sounds like Paris is taking the "All of the Above" energy approach that John McCain has advocated -- both alternatives and drilling. Perhaps the reality is that Paris has a more substantive energy plan than Barack Obama.
It was unconscionably lame for McCain's people to put Paris and Britney in the Barack attack ad to begin with (the point's valid I guess...it was just a dumb way of making it). After it blew up in their face you'd think they'd be smart enough to just stay away from all that shit entirely. But no. They are not. They keep going back to the well. Because McCain's people know he's really old and has zero cred with young people - and they think sparring jokingly with Paris is somehow rectifying that. But it's not. It's only making the old man seem lamer. And it's only reconfirming my belief that our Democracy is irrevocably screwed up. This is what we spend our time talking about?
Barack nailed it the other night when he said McCain's people were focusing on the Britney-Paris stuff to deliberately distract everyone from the real shit. Republicans don't want us thinking issues because they know George Bush has fucked the country up and therefore they lose on issues. And the even sadder part? All they're doing by going frivolous is setting Barack up to win points by staying above the fray. Hillary did that time-and-again, and now the McCain people are falling into the same trap. They try to undercut him, and he shrugs and acts like the whole thing is so silly and beneath him. That's his bit. Politics is a slimy game that he won't play. Except he will play it...he just plays it cleverer. The McCain people look like amateurs when they go this route.
I'm so sick of this country right now that I'm thinking of fleeing to Canada. When does Greyhound leave? Er...okay, maybe I'll hitch.
