Paris Hilton answers McCain ad

The amazing thing is that she actually makes sense.

I don't know whether she can just read a line or maybe we've actually misjudged the woman but she actually sounds like she has a brain in her head and maybe she knows how to use it.

Wonders never cease.

Thanks for your suggestion, Paris. BTW, what you mentioned *is* John McCain's policy.

She's so smart! Am I tricked?

I would have to agree with the above poster on this one. She's making both of the "celebrity" candidates' bickering about energy look foolish...imagine that.

Maybe she can replace Pelosi in a special election.

Right on Paris. Seriously, she's taking herself lightly, making fun of the situation and offering her political view points taboot. Job well done. It's nice to see someone point out the fact that the ad comparing Obama to Paris and Britney is flippin ridiculous.

I would take Paris Hilton as a president any day over McCain and the current dude, especially after listening to her energy policy.

I think that this is the beginning of a big backfire for McCain. He did a very foolish thing and I hope it blows up in his face

The "old, white-haired dude" is SO not hot.

To unspun:

John McCain wishes he was as smart as Paris...but, I forgot she's just another celebrity who looks and sounds better then the WHITE HAIR WRINKLE OLD MAN.

I'll ignore the obvious humor about drilling and just say "That's Hot" and it's also hot in the Arctic Circle and Iceland and all those funny places where reindeer live where it wasn't hot and now it is because our politicians are too busy being cute to attack our real issues around global warming and clean energy. I just don't want to encourage Paris too much because I was getting used to not seeing her so much (since she started wearing clothes again according to that *HOT* police chief dude in L.A.).

Paris Hilton certainly is a more brainy celebrity than Obama, but she is ill-informed. Her energy policy is not a hybrid of Obama and McCain's policy. It IS McCain's policy!

Can anyone say blowback? The McCain campaign really stepped in it. Now they look even more amateurish and ridiculous.

Isnt Paris suggestion the same one Obama made in Lansing Mi. the this week? Go Paris and Obama !!!!!!!!!!

HEY LARRY THE CURRENT DUDE'S NAME IS GEORGE BUSH.........THE BLACK GUY WITH THE BIG EARS IS BARACK OBAMA, AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT IS JOHN MCCAIN.

Actually - her policy IS OBAMA's - NOT MCCAINS

This is an absolute hoot! I am in complete agreement with Kathy Hilton and this is a great comeback. I just wish it was going to be aired as a political ad on TV and not just on the internet. That way more of the brainless McClueless supporters would see it.

as much as i can't stand paris hilton, i can't stand mccain even more. i love that she and her posse of publicists decided to rip apart mccain's obama bashing but c'mon guys,... there's no way she wrote that.

With a giggle and couple of laughs, the remarkably poor judgment by McCain has now prompted a free for all. This spoof is cutting and will be important politically as it points out the absurdity of the real candidate. Can America take McCain seriously? We should not have after his real political commercial.

Fasten your seatbelts, fellow citizens, we are going someplace unknown as our leaders are exposed prior to the election. Oops. Any chance there is time to hold another primary before the general election? Some real deficits in our Mr. McCain. Thanks, Paris, for humously pointing this out Posted by Leslie

Off shore drilling is for the uninformed, even if it has strict environmental oversight. There are millions of acres with a ton of oil already leased out to the oil companies and they haven't drilled on them. They are just sitting there, in areas of the country that would not be greatly impacted, ready to go. With millions of barrels of oil!

So before we all panic and go for the worst possible option so our SUV's don't jug to a stop, think! Americans are being played by McCain and the oil companies once again. The oil companies want their cake and eat it too, and McCain has the fork loaded with just what they want!

Well, it isn't rocket science to figure out they are both a little bit right. Amazingly, Paris does seem a lot like Obama with her narcissistic attitude, that it's all about her. She thinks she's hot when she really is pretty average like Obama thinks he's brilliant when he's really just average. I'm beginning to think maybe McCain was on to something, LOL.

Only a half-wit would think that she came up with that speach on her own... come on people!! You're smarter than that...

I hope you're satisfied "old white haired dude". See what you started?? Stay tuned for Brittney's answer!

No, you uninformed people she took Obama's policy, not McSheney's.

McSheny's flop was that we let them drill WHERE EVER Exxon can find oil, regardless to environmental concern. I remember when that old dude said it. And he added "we must do it, we must do it now." All those years he never seemed to be that worried. What a weirdo!

Good for you Paris! Now, you and Britney should both sue McCain for using your likeness' without your permission. Barack Obama is the clear choice for President. McCain is toooooo OLD! The man can't even use a computer or a cell phone. Do we really want a man who can't even manipulate 21st century technolgy leading the free world? I don't think so.

Anything for the Republican party to draw people away from the real issues in America. I'm glad Paris made a stand... she should, celebrities are people too and deserve to be treated like everyone else. Hey, I'm sure if anyone was shown in a McCain add being insulted, law suits would be filed. I know I would or I would throw down just like Paris did. He should seriously kiss Paris' feet that she didn't do that. Also what about Bounds for McCain? I wish I had a yes man cleaning up after I made a mistake...The truth will come out Mr. Bounds and I hate to see your fate the same as everyone that left the Bush administration.

Just to clear things up,

McCain is the one who would issue tax breaks for the oil companies, whereas Obama would issue tax breaks for new energy. Obama has also said he would support oil drilling with, you know, strict environmental oversight.

McCain, in comparison, is pretty much endorsing drilling straight-up.

Paris 1, McCain 0

The Paris ad was surprisingly good. McCain looks ridiculous, as he should, and she makes a point that he is using these frivolous ads to avoid the issues. These ads, combined with McCain's embarrassing performance at the biker rally, really make me wonder if he has totally lost it. I have noticed that he cannot talk without a script- for example, his inability to answer the question about birth control pills and Viagra, and he is on every side of each issue as if he cannot remember what his position is , plus he does not seem to remember what he voted on and what his positions were for the last 27 years in the Senate. It is possible that his staff did the work in the Senate and he just showed up occasionally to vote and that he is just reading copy now but if this is true he does not deserve a single vote. We have been embarrassed by our president and his actions/words for the last 7 plus
years- no more!

You all really think she even knows what "hybrid" means? Shame on you for applauding this waste of space.

1) Paris is not hot
2) Paris is not capable of that kind of thought

Actually, Barak has said he'd be open to limited drilling if it meant the passage of alternative energy incentives and help for Detroit.

Yeah, that IS McCain's energy policy!

You gotta give her this - Paris at least is smart enough to hire pretty decent writers.

She can suprise us with brains all she wants, but I couldn't pay attention to what she was saying when all I kept thinking of was those sex tape of hers I watched. All I can say is that she is skilled at MANY things!!!!

It is so hilarious that McCain, who used to joke about how the media fawned over him like a celebrity when he was a straight talker (back in 2000 when he was only 80), even calling them his core constituency. Now that people are less interested in the new McCain (the flip flopping Bush cheerleader), he is responding to Paris Hilton in attack ads.

It makes me scared for this country when some of you are actually enjoying this ad by somone who is famous for absolutley nothing.

She actually helps McCain. She sounds so stupid in this ad calling McCain the white haired dude. That is how dumb people who are not in touch with the trials of our world sound. She only reinforces the fact that Obama is nothing more than a celebrity and celebrities shouldn't open their traps.

Obama says we can help solve the energy crisis by making sure our tires are properly inflated. This is his great idea? LOL

Paris could do everyone a favor by telling them not to drive under a suspended license. Driving under denial- = D.U.D.

It is so hilarious that McCain, who used to joke about how the media fawned over him like a celebrity when he was a straight talker (back in 2000 when he was only 80), even calling them his core constituency. Now that people are less interested in the new McCain (the flip flopping Bush cheerleader), he is responding to Paris Hilton in attack ads.

Wow, she actually did sth that is funny and smart... obviously not written by her, bwt, or can't u see she's reading from somewhere...
Very funny. Go Obama!

I've never actually heard Paris Hilton make any sense before. She used real words and everything, complete with a straight face... I still can't figure out if she was trying to make fun of the candidates or was making a legitimate statement about how ideas must be fused... I'm still weirded out...

How awesome is it that republicans are now touting the fact that Paris Hilton is endorsing their ideas?

It's like bragging that Stevie Wonder thought your hair cut looked nice.

Nice attempt at sounding clever (that goes for both Paris Hilton and John McCain). If offshore drilling begins now major impacts won't be made until 2017. Also, I wonder how the people of New Orleans feel about offshore drilling?

This is a comedy bit making fun of a foolish situation. I don't know why everyone is taking it so seriously. I think it is awesome. I also think Paris Hilton is great, and smart, regardless of the public persona she has created. She knows how to use the media effectively to her advantage, which is proven by the way people feel so strongly about her. It seem it is always the people who "can't stand her" that are the first to know what she has done and can't stop criticizing her. Believe it or not you (if you are one of those people) are her biggest fans. If you really didn't care, you wouldn't care what she says. But I guess that is what makes her HOT.

This girl is so stupid, I can't even believe that there are fat house wives and nitendo nerds appluading her on these comments, the same people who by US weekly I am sure

what a surprise; fans of paris are supporters of obama. Fortunately, the majority of these knuckleheads are too self absorbed to vote.

Who cares about this? Anyone? Let's put REAL news on Boston.com, not tabloid trash!

Obama with Paris as his VP. Now thats the ticket. Where do I vote?

WYOMING92 - What is going to be really funny is when they foreclose on your trailer.

"Do we really want a man who can't even manipulate 21st century technolgy leading the free world?"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Thank GOD the world existed before cell phones and computers...maybe it's possible that he survive on his own because he's actually (gasp!) capable of his own thoughts without constant intercession of others feeding him lines.

Honestly. Pretty solid reason to not support McCain, genius.

Blah, blah , blah .., she could care less. I'm tired of people like her. "Hey, grab a weapon & stand the post! Other than that I don't give a damn!"

It takes a reasonable amount of intelligence to act like a complete ditz. Seriously. Even if she is as idiotic as she portrays herself while acting in character, sadly, she would still be smarter than the average voter.

Please Define What a ‘Windfall Profits’ Tax Is…
By Betsy Newmark
High School History and Government Teacher/Blogger
Liberals like to bleat about the oil companies making “windfall profits” as if there is some point when making a profit is bad. So the Wall Street Journal asks what the definition is of a “windfall profit.” This is important to know because Senator Obama has proposed giving each American family a stimulus check of $1000 paid for by a windfall profits tax on the oil companies. He is presently running an ad touting his plan.
“After one president in the pocket of big oil we can’t afford another,” says the ad, referring to President Bush’s previous work in the oil industry.
Obama hoped to emphasize energy and the economy in campaign stops this week in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, beginning with a speech Monday in Lansing, Mich. Gas prices over $4 a gallon have become a top issue in the presidential contest.

Obama’s spot trumpets his proposal to revive a windfall profits tax on energy companies and asserts that McCain favors tax breaks for the oil industry.
“A windfall profits tax on big oil to give families a thousand-dollar rebate,” an announcer in the ad says.
Obama has pushed for such a tax to fund $1,000 emergency rebate checks for consumers besieged by high energy costs.
Congress enacted a windfall profits tax in 1980, during an earlier era of high oil prices, but repealed it in 1988 amid concerns the tax was discouraging domestic oil development. Last year, the House approved $18 billion in new taxes on the largest oil companies, but they were blocked by Republicans in the Senate.
The new Obama ad opens with a driver pumping gas. The announcer says, “Every time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets.”
Some enterprising reporter should ask him how he defines windfall profits. Perhaps he has a similar approach to American business as his colleague from Illinois, Senator Durbin, who said that “The oil companies need to know that there is a limit on how much profit they can take in this economy.”
So what is the right amount of profit for an American company today? The WSJ tries out several definitions.
Take Exxon Mobil, which on Thursday reported the highest quarterly profit ever and is the main target of any “windfall” tax surcharge. Yet if its profits are at record highs, its tax bills are already at record highs too. Between 2003 and 2007, Exxon paid $64.7 billion in U.S. taxes, exceeding its after-tax U.S. earnings by more than $19 billion. That sounds like a government windfall to us, but perhaps we’re missing some Obama-Durbin business subtlety.
Maybe they have in mind profit margins as a percentage of sales. Yet by that standard Exxon’s profits don’t seem so large. Exxon’s profit margin stood at 10% for 2007, which is hardly out of line with the oil and gas industry average of 8.3%, or the 8.9% for U.S. manufacturing (excluding the sputtering auto makers).
If that’s what constitutes windfall profits, most of corporate America would qualify. Take aerospace or machinery — both 8.2% in 2007. Chemicals had an average margin of 12.7%. Computers: 13.7%. Electronics and appliances: 14.5%. Pharmaceuticals (18.4%) and beverages and tobacco (19.1%) round out the Census Bureau’s industry rankings. The latter two double the returns of Big Oil, though of course government has already became a tacit shareholder in Big Tobacco through the various legal settlements that guarantee a revenue stream for years to come.
In a tax bill on oil earlier this summer, no fewer than 51 Senators voted to impose a 25% windfall tax on a U.S.-based oil company whose profits grew by more than 10% in a single year and wasn’t investing enough in “renewable” energy. This suggests that a windfall is defined by profits growing too fast. No one knows where that 10% came from, besides political convenience. But if 10% is the new standard, the tech industry is going to have to rethink its growth arc. So will LG, the electronics company, which saw its profits grow by 505% in 2007. Abbott Laboratories hit 110%…..
General Electric profits by investing in the alternative energy technology that Mr. Obama says Congress should subsidize even more heavily than it already does. GE’s profit margin in 2007 was 10.3%, about the same as profiteering Exxon’s. Private-equity shops like Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, which recently hired Al Gore, also invest in alternative energy start-ups, though they keep their margins to themselves. We can safely assume their profits are lofty, much like those of George Soros’s investment funds.
So is Senator Obama planning to tax all these other businesses? Is his plan for growing America’s economy to say that we need to tax excess profits from any American business that grows fast and does well and then redistribute that money to average American folk? What does he think such a plan would do for the GDP over the long run? Does he not think that companies would react to such a tax plan and how would their reactions affect the growth of the overall economy? These are all questions that reporters who thought just a minute about what his demonization of the oil industry and his desire to tax their “windfall profits” would mean.
Perhaps the Democrats’ only concern is with companies that supply much-needed products to the American consumer such as oil. Well, by that definition, we could borrow from Jim Lindgren’s sarcastic proposal for a windfall profits tax on farmers. Farmers certainly have been doing well recently.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that net cash farm income nationwide will hit a record $96.6 billion this year — up 10% from last year and 40% from 2006
And companies that supply farmers have also had a good year.
Farmers aren’t the only ones making money from the run-up in commodity prices. Companies that sell things to farmers, everything from fertilizer to seed to tractors, are reporting healthy profits, too.
Terra Industries (TRA), a major fertilizer supplier, reported that its fourth-quarter 2007 profit jumped by six times over the year before.
Deere (DE)— which makes tractors, harvesters and other farm equipment — reported record quarterly earnings. Agricultural equipment sales were up 33%.
But rather than hearing demagogic attacks from Democrats on their nasty profits, Congress just voted them, over Bush’s veto, a pork-filled bill to give them more government money. As Bush said about the bill,
“Farm income is expected to exceed the 10-year average by 50% this year, yet Congress’ bill asks American taxpayers to subsidize the incomes of married farmers who earn $1.5 million per year,” he said in a statement Tuesday.
So the oil companies get demonized and the farmers get government handouts. Go figure.
As the WSJ concluded, the definition of a “windfall profit” is certainly case-dependent.
The point isn’t that these folks (other than Mr. Clinton) have something to apologize for, or that these firms are somehow more “deserving” of windfall tax extortion than Big Oil. The point is that what constitutes an abnormal profit is entirely arbitrary. It is in the eye of the political beholder, who is usually looking to soak some unpopular business. In other words, a windfall is nothing more than a profit earned by a business that some politician dislikes. And a tax on that profit is merely a form of politically motivated expropriation.
It’s what politicians do in Venezuela, not in a free country.
But that is the plan of Senator Obama and many of his Democratic supporters. They have a very skewed idea of how our economic system should work. The only constant seems to be to try to score political points in demagoguery without much concern for the overall effects of such a tax.
Perhaps it is time for a little history lesson before the Obama administration pushes through this return to Carter economics. The last time we had a windfall profits tax on oil was in 1980 and, as might have been predicted if the politicians then had understood a bit of economics, was exactly the opposite of what the country needed, as Jonathan Williams explained a couple of years ago when there was also talk of such a tax on the oil companies.
Numerous lawmakers, from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), are lining up to support a new federal windfall profits tax, with the aim of redistributing profits from “greedy” oil companies.
But lawmakers could benefit from a history lesson. The last time this country experimented with such a tax was the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980. According to a 1990 Congressional Research Service study, the tax depressed the domestic oil industry, increased foreign imports and raised only a tiny fraction of the revenue forecasted. It stunted domestic production of oil by 3% to 6% and created a surge in foreign imports, from 8% to 16%.
Politicians calling oil companies “greedy” is more than a little ironic. Tax Foundation studies have shown that state and federal treasuries profit handsomely from oil industry sales. The average American motorist pays taxes of 46 cents a gallon on gasoline, of which 18.4 cents a gallon goes to the federal government. States and localities pocket the rest.
The nation’s energy companies are already providing a “windfall” of taxes. According to Department of Energy data, from 1977 to 2004, federal and state governments extracted $397 billion by taxing the profits of the largest oil companies and an additional $1.1 trillion in taxes at the pump. In today’s dollars, that’s $2.2 trillion – enough to buy a Toyota Prius for every household in the nation.
In fact, oil companies have paid in taxes more than three times what they earned in profits during those 28 years.
As the oil industry brings in record profits, it also pays record taxes that average 39% worldwide, even after accounting for special deductions and credits. That compares with a 33% average tax rate for other industries.
In 2005, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil paid more than $158 billion in total worldwide taxes. This gargantuan tax bill nearly equals the entire economic output of Iran and surpasses the total gross domestic product of 150 of the 184 countries ranked by the World Bank.
It would be unfair and absurd to tax workers at different rates, based merely on the industry they work in. Similarly, it makes no sense to tax an industry punitively based on the volatility of its profits. Oil will always be a boom-or-bust business.
I sure hope that someone will ask Obama, perhaps in a debate, why he supports the idea of a windfall profits tax on the oil companies even though the last time that happened, gas prices went up and our imports of foreign oil also increased. Perhaps Senator Obama would give a similar response that he gave in the ABC debate when Charlie Gibson asked him if he still supported an increase in capital gains taxes even though, in the past, a decrease in capital gains taxes has driven up the revenue the government gets. Senator Obama’s response was illuminating. He wasn’t interested in the economics of his proposed actions, but in the perceived “fairness” of taxes and business.
Economist Donald J. Boudreaux sums up Obama’s plan for tackling oil prices.

In other words, a critical part of Sen. Obama’s strategy for reigning in high gasoline prices is to subsidize gasoline consumption and more heavily tax its production. This plan - which increases the demand for gasoline and reduces its supply - makes as much sense as trying to put out a fire by dowsing it with jet fuel.
Folks, this is all a very dangerous approach to the economy. If we’re going to impose taxes based on some politician’s idea of fairness and whichever industry can be demonized to score partisan advantages, we will be endangering our entire economic system and minimizing economic growth. First it was Big Tobacco. Now Big Oil. Tomorrow perhaps, Big Pharmaceuticals. Can Big Tech or Big Food be far behind on the target list? And remember, companies don’t pay these taxes out of the goodness of their souls. They pass along the taxes to consumers. Soon Big Consumers will be paying for all this.

Even funnier than Paris Hilton pointing out how ludicrous the McCain slime machine has gotten is the fact that the McCain camp actually bothered to respond!! Ha ha ha - what a bunch of crazy fruitcakes.

Too bad she's not running. We would be #1 with the world if she did and won! Go Paris!

Are we even considering listening to this "EX-CON"??? The last I heard of this "SPOILED BRAT" was that she got released early from a short jail sentence for good behavior? No one gets there jail term reduced in less than six months but she did in two months??? I am not listening while I block my ears and scream LA LA LA LA LA LA. Oh, then I would be stooping to the imature level of Paris wouldn't I???? Paris is a looooosah and she really needs to get out of the public eye. We have seen enough of this "DRUNKARD" haven't we? Go to AA and stay ANONYMOUS will you please Paris!! Good riddens!!

Political Intelligence and Paris Hilton in the same page...you figure it out.

The number one priority should be development of alternative and renewable energy. Drilling for oil (offshore or otherwise) is flawed for two reasons:

1. It will take 5 to 10 years to bring a single barrel of oil to market from new sources.

2. The oil market is global. People seem to believe that if we drill off the US coast, that is "our" oil. That oil will go on the global market and essentially go to the highest bidder. The additional oil may bring down prices overall (doubtful since global demand is increasing), but it does nothing to decrease our dependence on oil, foreign or domestic.

Fact is, we should have been developing alternative energy sources 20 years ago when oil was cheap. But we didn't, so now we are faced with an energy crisis. And yet people still believe the answer is more oil. That's like telling a drug addict that the best way for him to kick his habit is find a new drug dealer.

Awesome speech, your celebrity-ness! I'm no fan of Paris, but I really admire her ability to poke fun at herself in this video. Kudos to this self-aware woman.

Finally somebody is taking it to Mc Cain. That's what happens when you move away from issues and start with the negative politicking. As my mom used to say 'if u dig a hole for your neighbour, remember to dig one for yourself also!'
Thanks Paris, for digging that hole for Mc Cain. Here's hoping Britney is there to close his casket!

Paris, or her well paid publisists, are spot on! On a side note, has anyone notice the increased blunders from McCain? Is it the first signs of Alzheimers?

Now, this does make me like Paris Hilton, and laugh with her, and entirely agree with her energy policy.

At the same time, it was carefully constructed to support neither candidate. I don't think Barack Obama will benefit from her response. She's lampooning both, and quite effectively I might add.

I don't think Paris is dumb. Consider this: How many women would love to make a living by dressing in cool clothes, wearing sexy shoes and dresses, and sleeping with good looking dudes? And then writing the occasional book, with a breezy sense of humour?

Yes, she was a heiress, but clearly she has made millions on her own account, and this is not to be understated. She's actually had a great career, if you think about it, and genuinely dumb people very rarely have great careers.

D

Making a US Presidential Campaign speech is not so hard. Paris just proved it.
Still I wished her lips were more in sync with the voice.

Obama graduated in the top 10 of his class.
McCain graduated in the bottom 10 of his class.
McCains health report was over 1000 pages.
Obamas health report was 1 page.
I would prefer an intelligent healthy reasonable person to guide our country back .

THIS IS NEWS????

Paris Hilton's piece is hardly a stinging riposte. Oooh he's old., but she is still an effete n'er do well.

And we lap it up. I think that a blog on the contents of Paris Hilton's feces would be more interesting.

Disclosure: I am a Democrat, which is why Nader to win, but I will vote for B. Obama.

Hey Globe Blog filter guy: You filter out my posts????? I guess it is ok if people make fun of Paris Hilton, but god forbids anyone being critical of your beloved Obama. You allow bloggers to make fun of McCain's age; one saying he has Alzheimers? He is a War Hero, he deserves respect. The more and more disrespectful left wingers trash McCain because of his age, the more they demonstrate their disdain for the elderly (who vote an awful lot), the elderly and those that have the decency to show a War Hero respect will not want to be associated with these smarmy know-it-alls like the Keith Olbermans.

History will prove that "journalists" and people in the Press during this Election were totally negligent, I mean totally.

The Globe endorsed Patrick, a man who asked a Parole Board to let a grandmother rapist out of prison, a man who got hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on the Board of Ameriquest; a company that preyed on poor people and minorities. Great, Great, Great Job Boston Globe thanks for looking out for us. Together We Can.... Play the Slots?"

Obama has no experience, is on the biggest ego trip in recent human history, has a Polly Anna naive mentality that puts us at risk, and has no track record of reaching across the aisle, listening or compromising with people of another point of view (97% Party line voting record), and adds massive Socialism to the list of Guns, Butter, Nationbuilding, Government Bailouts, Natural Disaster Relief, etc. (Lest we forget that the bottom 50% of taxpayers only pay 2% of the cost of Government). It is no stretch of the imagination that the Globe finds Obama a kindred spirit. Worst, is the fact that he voted to fund over $300 Billion to a War he was supposedly against, and to confirm Condi Rice, one of the primary people to sell this War to the American Public. No, actually worse is how he devalues powerful words, rendering them meaningless because there is no real world experience to back them up. Real leaders who used these sorts of words put themselves at risk to help others; Obama uses them for applause and self promotion. McCain defended Kerry when he was being attacked by the SwiftBoats and Kerry has the audacity to say that McCain will be a third Bush term. Where is the loyalty in that John Kerry? If anyone should know that John McCain is deserving of respect, it ought to be you John Kerry.

I'd be curious to see what other blog posts the Globe filters out. Just because you write well doesn't mean you are smart, and have the potential to be a propaganda rag. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are a "troublemaker".

Chris Matthews gets a tingle up his leg when he hears Obama speak. The Press is such a joke; they are living in a bubble. How do you think history will look at these delusional reporters? It is going to be hard to cover your tracks with the internet guys.

Stock market bubble, real estate bubble, OBAMA BUBBLE, all filled with irrational exuberance.

Lastly, wasn't MLK's "Dream" to have a colorblind society? His dream wasn't to have a black president; it was to have a colorblind society. "Black Pride" is racism because simply, it is based on race.

Go Paris!

The Old Guy started, and she does look Hot!

Now I'm waiting for Britt!!!

Ok, anyone who thinks that paris is smart because she talked about an energy policy that A. she stole from Mccain and B. because someone took everything mccain said and rewrote it for Paris to say herself to make herself sound smart. Honestly, do you think someone who makes sex tapes and drinks margaritas on a lawn chair for a living has a place in telling senators Mccain and Obama how to go about on their views of national and foreign policy? I will admit though that this video is hilarious, im just trying to show that she didnt make up that energy policy herself.

Here is one more reason why I would NEVER vote for Obama. Most of the people that supports him signals that they would be really happy if Paris Hilton was the president. UNBELIEVABLE!!! This just comes to prove that the ad was right on it. Maybe if Paris was running in the democratic primaries she would have won. That wouldn't surprise me.

Never have two young people made another look so stiff, so old, so yesterday's news. I want to like McCain, but I can't get past the uncomfortably, the lack of inspiration and the absence of a neck. John McCain reminds me of the daily newspaper: Old news enjoyed by an older demographic with dwindling membership. As Red said in Shawshank:

Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'...

There is something neurotic about the McCain people in this campaign. They delve on the insignificant issues, and they react making child-like, brainless comments. It seems like the campaign staff is either run by buffoons or old, feeble, weak-minded people. As i noted from the comment from Tucker (a McCain campaign staffer), he lauded Paris's response when it fact she was being satirical of McCain. McCain has his own problems as not remembering important events or spiraling into "He said, she said" discussions in his debates. But, the words out of the McCain staff is dumbfounded.

Love the guy who is bs at the press for inflating things...ah, thats nothing new. Get over it! Fact of the matter is people with strong liberal views are going to vote for Obama. There's no getting around party loyalty...although McCain may be pushing his luck.

Paris Hilton takes her publicity for what it is and does the most she can with it. I think her vid was hysterical mostly because it points out what is wrong with society and makes us (well, most of us) laugh at it.

I love seeing the terror in the words of the McCainiacs...especially over Paris Hiton! Keep shaking in your snakeskin boots...I see a strategical backdraft on the horizon and the "Wrinkly Old Dude" opened the door himself without checking to see if the knob was "Hot"!

this is a spoof. funnyordie.com was founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. They, or someone on the staff probably wrote and produced this after talking Paris into doing it.

Here in New York State with Dems outnumbering R's by 5 to 3, all electoral college votes will go to the Dem, regardless whether he/she is terrible or great. How else could a person who lived in NY for a few months be elected to US Senate from NY.
Therefore, it is time to vote against Dems and R. Paris has my vote.

McCain = Bush

the real winner is Conde Nast Traveler (free product placement!)

Paris is a bright young woman. By taking the best of both candidates it's a no brainer. I've only heard the dumb things about her, but she's really stepped up to show she's a lot more sense than people give her. I'm impressed!!

Really! too bad she is not running for the president. Her energy policy sounds like a knockout, just as hot as he is. She has enough fans to get her a nomination if she were to run for a public office.

Offshore drilling is a sham! 15 or 20 years beore it hits the pumps! Barack will allow it only as a consession while negotiating real change-- really it has no place in an energy policy.

Paris sure looks better than either of the other candidates. And sounds better too.She has my vote and can fix me a sandwich anytime she wants. I saw the interview with the guy that filmed her video.

Who cares what super rich Paris HIlton thinks anyway. She is nothing but a rich spoiled brat who doesnt have any morals. She actually makes me sick to think that any person could even think of her as an intelligent person. Our system has proven that if you have money you can get out of trouble and not do your time in jail. It is so obvious she doesnt have the brains to do this video and Brittney is so whacked out on her drugs who would even consider getting her opinion. I for one am ashamed how people in the U.S. could care what she says. WE have many issues that are much more important facing this country than a bunch of snot nosed young people who don't know what is staring them in the face! Number one the young people attracted to Hussein Barrack O'Bama should realize this country was built on christian principles and wil fall if there is a muslim elected to run it. Read his book he tells you what he wil pick when it comes down to it. He is a rascist I saw the videos and he can say they are not legit but it is his mouth and his wifes that is opening and their voices saying what they are saying using the term rich whities and telling us we won't own a SUV and probably won't have enough to eat while he will be sitting in the White House riding around in a gas guzzling limousine and flying all over the world in a jet. He will have a chef preparing food and they can eat as much as they want. I for one dont want a man in office who has only 143 hours of experience running the country I live in! He has no experience what so ever and has no idea how to fix the problems in this country .All he does is talk about change. Well what are the great changes he has? The only change you are going to see is the change in your pocket! What I am seeing is a socialist takeover in this country.. This man scares me if he is elected as our president. People need to wake up and vote for a man with the experience we need and that is John McCain!

She has a better energy policy than J.McCain/Bush,plus she is funny and sexy in comparison ! Although i don't trust either one and their Partys,Americans are soo Racists that will vote G.W.Bush for third time if that was possible, than vote for Obama.

obama = bush

Different side - same Sh..

Paris Hilton has a better energy plan than Barack Obama. He takes other peoples ideas, quotes, policies and passes them off as his. We will probably hear Hilton's next week.

Obama did not win and Hillary did not loose.

Obama did not come out of the primary season with a mandate by the majority of Democrats. With all due respect, some of you need to back and study your civics. This is a PROCESS to elect the leader of the free world. It’s not a coronation of the next American Idol.

Ramming the “unity” nonsense down the throats of millions of voters to manipulate a desired end is bad business for everyone. If we do not protect what is left of the democratic process, then everyone looses.

‘Unity”, as it being touted by the DNC is thinly veiled coercion that undermines the very tenants the system our forefathers designed to protect us from tyranny. If Obama really....really is the political messiah his supporters believe him to be, then why not prove it by adhering to the rules and the long-held process of nomination to validate him completely and authentically?

America is great because we are not a nation of conformists. Trust the process to create the best end result.

Nice ad. But, I think she is wrong about the energy policy. Why don't we pursue the oil shale in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. Shell Corporation has already developed the technology to harvest and drill the oil out of the ground. Now, all we are waiting for are the permits that take five years to get from the US government.

Very nice site!

Very nice site!