Why is it that her energy policy has more substance than either of the other two? Perhaps she should be running.

The McCain campaign already issued a response:

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds issued this response: "It sounds like Paris Hilton supports John McCain's `all of the above' approach to America's energy crisis - including both alternatives and drilling. Paris Hilton might not be as big a celebrity as Barack Obama, but she obviously has a better energy plan."

More mature, also.  Who'd a-thunk it?

If Obama wants to discuss serious subjects, McCain has offered to debate him, do townhalls with him, etc.  Obama turns all those things down.  

As not commented, her pornographic video made her famous & notorious.

Her work & her inheritance & her New York Times best-seller & her music album seem to indicate that she has parlayed "famous for being famous" into a very successful business pattern.

I think she's quite funny.  And as the back & forth comments here indicate, some think she parodied McCain & some think she back-handed Obama. That's a great 2-fer.

As far as the Paris ad goes it just makes the celeb memo that much more powerful. Paris sounded better than Obama and she could probably run and take votes away from him.

In an essay that is standard Keillor musing on Americana with a couple of zingers at politics and contemporary culture, this was the money paragraph for me:

"And it's an amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can attack a Chicago South Sider as an elitist and hope to make it stick. The Chicagoan was brought up by a single mom who had big ambitions for him, and he got scholarshipped into Harvard Law and was made president of the law review, all of it on his own hook, whereas the Arizonan is the son of an admiral and was ushered into Annapolis though an indifferent student, much like the Current Occupant, both of them men who are very lucky that their fathers were born before they were. The Chicagoan, who grew up without a father, wrote a book on his own, using a computer. The Arizonan hired people to write his for him. But because the Chicagoan can say what he thinks and make sense and the Arizonan cannot do that for more than 30 seconds at a time, the old guy is hoping to portray the skinny guy as arrogant.

What's next, Spears drilling policy?

I still feel that Paris Hilton is nothing more than just another cog in the Fox Entertainment wheel.

I would hardly think that someone who "starred" in the Simple Life on Fox, where, she demeaned people who actually WORKED for a living is something that thinking people celebrate.

When ANYONE berates the little man for being common and holding down a job, disgusts me. How does she think that the Hiltons got so rich?  I hardly think she would be scrubbing toilets in any of the Homewood Suites my temps work in every day.

Obama needs to learn some self-deprecating humor. He takes himself far too seriously, with his new airplane chair and all that. Instead of reacting to the Celeb ad as he did; he should have laughed it off and said: wow I am honored to be next to such beautiful women. It would have been the end of it.

Well,we now have another week of fodder with this.
Great...(snark).

I hear Hannity played it and they loved it; thought it was very amusing.

While we are waiting for alternative energy we might as well start drilling off shore so we can have lower energy prices immediately?

Personally, I think this turn McCain has made towards humorous ads and gimmicks has been a good move since it shows he's the kind of guy who can produce a joke and take a joke.  It actually makes him appear to be younger than he really is since older people tend to lose their sense of humor.  (This was actually proven in a scientific study in the last few years.  You can probably find the facts via Google.)

The liberal blog response is that McCain is taking a whooping from Obama's snappy comebacks.  Like today, when Obama said

"So I told them something simple," Obama said. "I said, 'You know what? You can inflate your tires to the proper levels and that if everybody in America inflated their tires to the proper level, we would actually probably save more oil than all the oil we'd get from John McCain drilling right below his feet there, or wherever he was going to drill.'"...

"So now the Republicans are going around -- this is the kind of thing they do. I don't understand it! They're going around, they're sending like little tire gauges, making fun of this idea as if this is 'Barack Obama's energy plan.'

"Now two points, one, they know they're lying about what my energy plan is, but the other thing is they're making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent. It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant."

I don't consider that to be a snappy comeback.  "These guys take pride in being ignorant" hardly qualifies as real humor or a snappy comeback.  The truth is, these guys find humor in being ignorant -- and there is humor in being ignorant.  Ask Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy.  

I think the McCain camp saw a humor deficit on the Obama side when the New Yorker parody magazine cover came out and Obama's surrogates complained.  They are capitalizing on that deficit now and it would behoove the Obama campaign to find a sense of humor -- and quickly!