It sure seems that way judging from the quick Obama response.
For the second time in two weeks, he aired a TV ad Monday rebutting Republican John McCain's claim that Obama is little more than a celebrity, like the blonde hotel heiress.
Why would he even waste money on an ad if this stuff isn't hitting home? I think it is because main stream America dislikes the political side of celebrities and if Obama is a "political celebrity" then it resonates with them. The whole "Shut up and sing or act" view is shared by a great many voters for the most part.
What is worse is that McCain has linked Obama to Paris Hilton who is the poster child for dumb, vacuous, and naive celebrities. Her "Vote or Die" campaign and her subsequent failure to vote as a case-in-point. So Obama is being portrayed as Barack "Paris" Obama. He is already shown he is naive with his pie-in-the-sky economic plan and his "lets go have Mojitos at the club" attitude toward Ahmadinejad.
He even talks down to main-stream Americans with his "cling to guns and religion" message. Obama showed the same condescension that Hollywood liberals have always shown toward the so-called flyover states. How can main-stream Americans vote for a guy that seems as vacuous and naive as Paris Hilton but at the same time tells them that they "cling" to their guns and Bibles? Obama as the condescending celebutant might be a goldmine for McCain.
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