"Andy Warhol said we all get our fifteen minutes of fame. I've already had an hour and a half. I'm so overexposed. I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse." Sunday Times Magazine, November 5, 2006.
"I have always been suspicious of our celebrity culture. And now I find myself in this odd position where I am a part of it, and to some degree a beneficiary of it. We cycle through the new and the novel, and stack story after story on top of individuals, until we lose track of who we're talking about. And if you get absorbed in that, you lose track of who you're talking about." New Yorker, October 30, 2006.
"I'm the flavor of the month. This is a celebrity culture, and that culture has to be fed." San Francisco Chronicle, October 26, 2006.
"I've got a celebrity that's undeserved and a little overgrown to the actual power I have in this city." All Things Considered, March 10, 2005.
Okay, there you have it. Not only did Obama compare himself to Paris Hilton before the John McCain campaign did, he admitted that he was part of the celebrity culture.
The McCain "celebrity" advertisement just confirms the facts--Obama's facts.
By the way, in regards to the celebrity senator from my state: Just how many of his bills have been enacted into law?
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Except that ad also lied... It's got a whopper on taxes that FactCheck.org immediately pointed out was false.
Will the McCain campaign take another few days before they admit they lied again, just like they lied on their earlier "Troops" ad?
It's fine that they, and you, want to oppose Obama's run for president -- that's democracy. But we patriotic Americans deserve better than a pack of lies.
Well...he favors a tax on so-called "dirty fuels." Many Americans get their electricity from coal fired plants.
Then there is this...
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w
That is true. Obama wanted to tax coal which is used to make electricity. So McCain's ad does not contain a lie.
The Obama campaign is trying distract the public from the truth of McCain's ad which correctly states that Obama is mainly a media-created agent. His actual record is very small. He was only in the Congress for 2.5 years before he started campaigning for President. That's a very self-centered and arrogant thing to do.
You must be very flexible since you reach so much. ;)
By the by, didn't McCain put out a YouTube video a few weeks back basically calling Obama an uppity black man? Gee, I wonder where this whole "race" non-issue got started...
Please provide a link for that one.
You can (and will) deny it all you want but it's darn easy to read between the thin lines, John.
Here's the link to the McCain vid which ostensibly mocks Obama, but clearly points out how "different" he looks. (And Obama specifically said in his speech that he doesn't look like the presidents on money, which is directly the point this McCain ad made.)
Besides, where've you been for the past month as the McCain camp wore out the word "presumptuous" just because Obama's campaign is more successful at getting an audience together?
Oh wait, you've called him presumptuous too. You yourself even linked to McCain's ad "One" which pulls a bunch of half-quotes to make Obama look "presumptuous".
What's another word for "presumptuous"? Oh, I don't know. How about ... "uppity"? As in an "uppity black man".
It's utterly transparent, John, and wholly reprehensible. Then again, when you have no ideas but failed ones to run on, apparently transparent baloney is all you've got left.
(That said, I wonder why no conservatives complained when George Bush was featured on pop magazine covers? Or when conservative church congregants all but started worshipping him?)
Your quotes that are attributed to Sen. Obama sound like reasonable comments, isolated from whatever context they were in, that simply speak to the pop culture we all live in. So, it's not a "smoking gun" or exposing some lie. McCain has contributed identical expressions of the pop culture. Just recall his getting equal time with Obama on various shows, notably Saturday Night Live.
There is more to the pop culture, and all its players, than meets the eye.
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