Paris Hilton vs. John McCain

Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad:

Why is it that Paris Hilton is able to speak more substantively on the issue of energy than John McCain? There is much more substantive energy policy in this than in McCain's ad.

Paris Hilton is ready to lead on energy policy Why isn't John McCain?

Comments

[howard]

ohmigod: am i going to have to, uh, like paris hilton?

[David Lloyd-Jones]

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She makes petty good sense -- but then maybe her writers are professionals, rather than ideological nut cases.

Hmm. Could this mean she has some executive ability missing in some other candidates?



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[Zeno]

I find this deeply disturbing. It's like my cat suddenly asked me what I thought about relativity. Maybe she has good writers (in which case she's at least a better actress than previously credited) or maybe she's not actually an idiot. Sure had me fooled!

[RW]

I share Zeno's distress, there is a cognitive dissonance, a feeling of presque vu ... I am delighted yet, somehow, appalled: I was beginning to accept the possibility that McCain might win and that we could survive as a people if he did but now he has become demonstrably less than the putative vapid starlet he mocked; must resolve, must resolve, must, must ....

[christofay]

The ideological nut cases are professional, haven't you heard of wing-nut welfare? Republicans thrive on feeding off the Federal govt dollar spawn and all its mutations Halliburton being a prime example. This is a great reason to put the place on a diet. For a democratic example read David Einhorn's Fooling Some of the People All of the Time in the section regarding John Kerry, the Democrat's 2004 presidential candidate, and his relationship with Allied Capital for part of the "if they're contributing they must be the good guys" way of thinking. Term limits are a possibility but the immediate danger is term limits might reward the most pandering rather than those offering the best ideas. It's the socialism in Washington, DC, that has atrophied the Saint McCain.

Anyways unfair unfair. McCain has already said he doesn't understand economics; he'd prefer propping that zombie up in a chair and let him mumble. McCain will sound helpless in comparison to a young thing that plays our celebrity markets like Harpo.

Is it the Republican that suffers in comparison to Paris Hilton or is it the Washingtonian? The two groups do heavily overlap.

[Neil B.]

Yeah, the revenge of Paris was cute and funny. Aside from who wrote her lines, she must have thought of doing it. Look, this is sexism to a large extent. Why must people think that a certain "type" has to be stupid just because *she* got to be famous for no good reason? Pick someone at random, your expectation value is IQ 100. A bio page says "Taught herself to play the guitar for the release of her upcoming album" - not so bad.

In any case, McCain (certainly pompous whatever you think of Obama) has clearly been smacked down, and it was great. It's a putdown, if the public really gets into it he's done. I can't wait for Leno to get it on with this.

[bigTom]

Or maybe, a coherent energy policy just isn't rocket science? Perhaps you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out, just have a nonideological brain?

[Matt]

Sometimes, just sometimes, the world is more wonderful than one could ever have hoped.

[howard]

jose, i assume that's mccain you're talking about, the man with no core values and little interest in the issues.

otherwise, you have no idea what you're talking about.

[OdinofAzgard]

The obvious difference between Paris and McCain is that Johnnie has shown himself to have much less class.

[OdinofAzgard]

Your turn, Brittney! Don't you want to kiss Mrs Buffalo Chip -- Cindi McCain?

[Oh Well]

Very nice, but she still hasn't gotten the message that offshore drilling in restricted areas is irrelevant to the problem. She thinks it will carry us until new technologies kick in, when in fact the amount of oil that would be produced is tiny in relation to our consumption. Which is why environmentalists oppose it; why trash the environment for so little benefit?

Still, she's preferable to McCain. And she is free to bring up his age; I hope it grows legs. That's for you, "white-haired guy."

[Knecht Ruprecht]

What Oh Well said. The only virtue of offshore drilling is as a bargaining chip to bring a couple more senators on board with a sensible energy policy based on conservation, alternative technologies, and pigouvian taxation of carbon. Barack gets that, which is why his position of opposing offshore drilling while leaving the door open a crack is substantively correct.

However, as a second best option, I'll take Paris' plan.

[J.]

Where was Obama when Harry Reid's anti energy-speculation bill came up for a vote a few weeks ago? (which allowed for a vote on future offshore drilling, ah believe). BO did his usual duck the issue (he seems nearly Schwarzeneggerian). The bill was defeated (with every GOPer in the house voting against it, probably following orders from Exxon); BO could have made some symbolic gesture...

Sen. Reid's not perfect, but at least has enough spine to take on the excesses of the commodity and stock markets (something the Clintons rarely did). Maybe Paris H. could offer some thoughts on the petroleum biz........

[Doctor Jay]

I've recently got all of the episodes of WKRP in Cincinati on DVD. They rock. Paris does what Loni Anderson did on the show, which was to make fun of the attitude that "Just because I'm blonde and sexy and female therefore I must be dumb. NOT!"

I'll admit that I don't pay much attention to her, but this ad rocks.