Paris is famous for her TV show and Sex video. So what exactly is Sen. Obama is famous for besides just running for President? What has he done that deserves 10 times the amount of media coverage that Paris gets? I have an idea for you, how about listing Paris Hilton and Sen Obama accomplishments side by side and see how they compare.

JeffinSac on July 31, 2008 at 8:52 AM

I’ve always said Obama is the Paris Hilton of politics. He’s famous for being famous.

If McCain was Obama’s age, terry, he’d just be called …lazy.

Be grateful McCain can use the excuse of being old for his lack of effort…in anything he does.

alphie on July 30, 2008 at 7:47 PM

But, of course, alphie has nothing to do with the Obama campaign, officially.

Obama posturing as being above attacks is one of the most cynical ploys I’ve ever seen. His campaign is vicious, devious, and has been attacking nonstop for months. And alphie knows it, and approves.

I don’t think McCain will be a great President, but I do think he’ll at least be an honest one. Obama will be an unimaginable nightmare, after whose tenure our country will be a second-rate, neo-socialist nation under the thumb of UN bureaucrats — one of which will probably be Barack Obama.

(Unrelated to this topic, please visit my political/cultural blog, “Plumb Bob Blog: Squaring the Culture.” Thanks.)

it’s that McCain has a solid brand of his own that he’s neglecting

So mccain should sit back and run a campaign like Bush 1 ran against clinton? Yep, that will be effective. While the liberal media machine does all the work and we get pres barry in a landslide. Right.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/weaver_mccains_former_strategi.php

John Weaver, for years one of John McCain’s closest friends and confidants, has been in exile since his resignation from McCain’s presidential campaign last year. ><

“John’s been a celebrity ever since he was shot down,” Weaver said

“He(McCain)has been a celebrity since he was shot down”

Note that implies the celeb treatment began, not with his release and triumphant return home a hero, but at check-in to the Hanoi Hilton!

I thought Obama was above negative politics based on how a person looks.

He’s going to get a free pass on it, too, from the liberal media. Shame on him.

McCain is not for illegal aliens.

Terrye on July 30, 2008 at 9:38 PM

Sorry, Terrye, but he certainly is. I’m probably still going to end up voting for the guy (unless BHO totally self-destructs by the convention), but he panders more to illegals than he ever did to me.

McCain is not for illegal aliens. He might not be Tom Tancredo, who got his ass handed to him in the primaries, but he is not for illegal aliens.

However, Obama, the man some conservatives would just as soon see become the president wants to break down those walls, give drivers licenses to illegals and national health care to illegals. He also accuses ICE agents of terrorizing communities.

So it seems to me that if hardliners on immigration really care about this issue they would try to keep Obama out of office. If they care.

That is bs and you know it. McCain is more qualified and more conservative than Obama and yet all you do is complain that McCain is not good enough for you. The fact that I would rather see McCain win than Obama does not mean I want anyone to piss on my head, it just means I am not going to bite off my nose to spite my face. Like some people I can think of.

jeanie on July 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM

Excellent analysis.

MB4 and catmann:

McCain is not for illegal aliens, his policy on global warming is nowhere near as scary as the man the Paulbots are rooting for {Obama} and he has no problem with capitalists nor does he heart the Goracle.

Terrye on July 30, 2008 at 8:55 PM

Like I told you before, McCain could literally piss on your head and you would think that you were receiving holy communion.

McCain is not for illegal aliens, his policy on global warming is nowhere near as scary as the man the Paulbots are rooting for {Obama} and he has no problem with capitalists nor does he heart the Goracle.

That’s a lot of lies to pack into one sentence, Terrye.

Link.

“I respect Speaker Pelosi. I think she’s one of the great American success stories,” McCain said during an interview with The Chronicle prior to a fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

“We talk about (New York Sen.) Hillary Clinton and her inspiration to millions of Americans. Speaker Pelosi has been an inspiration as well” in a role that is “in many ways … more powerful than the president.”

And McCain also had high praise for the 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and his advocacy on the issue of climate change. McCain recently raised eyebrows in GOP circles by calling “doable” Gore’s suggestion that the country could become entirely energy independent through use of renewable resources within 10 years.

“I agree with his goal,” the Arizona senator said Monday of Gore’s idea. “I may disagree with all the ways of getting there. But I again want to emphasize my respect for the former vice president’s leadership on this issue and his continuous leadership. And I am in no way trying to get into a fight with him.”

You were saying?

Weaver remains in contact with senior McCain strategists and, for a while early this year, regularly talked to McCain.

That says a lot about McCain, and none of it’s good.

“They are going to tell you I’m scary. That I don’t look like other Presidential candidates. That I’m risky”

We don’t give a crap what you look like Barry. That’s your hang-up, not ours. But yes, we do think you’re scary. A man who thinks he can grow our economy and create more jobs by raising taxes on U.S. corporations (which already pay some of the highest tax rates in the world) is extremely scary. A man who wants to engineer his own version of “social justice” by increasing taxes on people who work and produce and invest and save, so that he can “redistribute” their wealth to people who aren’t interested in getting up off their butts — yes, Barry, we think that’s scary too. A man who wants to tear down borders between countries and invite every Third-World criminal who hasn’t already set up residence here in the U.S. to come on in — Barry will not only give you amnesty, he’ll also sign you up for all those new entitlement programs he’s itching to set up (“universal” health care, “free” college tuition, etc.). A man who wants to pay for his cradle-to-grave socialist benefit programs by gutting our military, scrapping our best weapons, and eliminating spending on new weapons development. Yep, Barry, we think that’s scary. Actually, “scary” doesn’t even begin to cover it.

McCain is not for illegal aliens, his policy on global warming is nowhere near as scary as the man the Paulbots are rooting for {Obama} and he has no problem with capitalists nor does he heart the Goracle. I know that you and catmann are pissed that your guy did not win the nomination, but it would be nice if the Republican candidate only had to fight the other party, instead of constantly defending himself against people who are supposed to be conservatives.

There is no pleasing some people.

Oh please, Obama does not even know that his state of Illinois borders Kentucky. Or maybe he was just confused when he made that comment. Maybe it is premature senility.

I’m still undecided on this tactical issue, though.

progressoverpeace on July 30, 2008 at 7:50 PM

At this stage in the campaign, you do a number of things, two of which are:

1) Introduce your candidate
2) Sew doubts in your opponent

alphie on July 30, 2008 at 8:13 PM

Did you catch my comment at 7:52? Did you follow the links and read the stories? Now, I’m no fan of McCain, but he has done a lot to try and run a clean campaign.

McCain is for illegal aliens.

He is a supporter of global warming junk science.

He supports curtailing political speech.

He’s got a problem with capitalism (doesn’t like ‘Big Oil’)

He Hearts the Goracle

He supports hamstringing the economy (what do you think ‘Cap and Trade’ is?)

catmman on July 30, 2008 at 6:56 PM

In other words, a near perfect nominee for the kos democrats if they didn’t already have one.