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Paris Hilton’s Response to McCain

By Charles Lemos on August 6, 2008 at 9:38 AM in Barack Obama, Economy, Energy Policy, Energy Policy Act of 2005, John McCain

Well, she certainly has a sense of humour if scantily clad. Reclining in a pool-side sun-lounger, Ms. Hilton says: “Hey America, I’m Paris Hilton and I’m a celebrity, too. Only I’m not from the olden days and I’m not promising change like that other guy. I’m just hot.”

“But then that wrinkly, white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I’m running for president. So thanks for the endorsement, white-haired dude.”

She continues: “I want America to know that I’m, like, totally ready to lead.”

Discussing energy policy, which has this week emerged as the central issue of the Presidential campaign, Ms. Hilton endorses a combination of McCain’s plan to increase offshore oil drilling and Obama’s scheme to offer more incentives for new energy technology. She signs off: “Energy crisis solved! I’ll see you at the debates.”

I might add that she has a better energy policy than Obama. Both the Obama and McCain campaigns issued response to Paris. The Obama campaign issued a one word statement:

Whatever.

The McCain campaign had a longer statement:

Paris Hilton might not be as big a celebrity as Barack Obama, but she obviously has a better energy plan. It sounds like Paris Hilton supports John McCain’s ‘all of the above’ approach to America’s energy crisis — including both alternatives and drilling. In reality, Paris Hilton may have a more substantive energy policy than Barack Obama.

Just a note there Paris, Rihanna, your choice for Vice President, is a citizen of Barbados and sadly not eligible to be Vice President. On a more serious note, the McCain “The One” ad continues to be a boon for the McCain campaign. The McCain campaign noted that the ad cost $9.99 to produce (I’m sure it was more but you get the point) but ad continues to be played and discussed almost a week later. Ms. Hilton’s salvo only keeps it in play in the news more.

From my blog, By The Fault.

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Matthew Weaver

You know, I’m might opt to vote for Hilton rather than sit out not voting for Obama or voting for McCain. Just think, it’d likely be the first time in history that our soldiers would have pin-ups of the president with them.

Matthew Weaver

And I forgot to mention the obligatory post office portrait.

roseeriter

Heh, yeah I can picture all the saluting.

Hope Floats

PARIS HILTON stars in 21 Gun Salute: Gang Banging For Freedom.

J. J.. (The P.U.M.A.)

Her bio says she was born in 1981, and thus is too young to be president. But, perhaps she could come up with a Hawaii birth certificate that shows she is 35.

Joe

Let’s get an amendment passed lowering the age requirement to be POTUS to 25!

Larse12

Over sea’s is even talking about Obama more and more!
More then our own media!!!
http://web.israelinsider.com/home.htm

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

it said link no longer available

TeaMug

I think it has to do with copywright stuff with regards to youtube:

Here is another link, you can watch it here:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

Thanks Teamug! I thought the joke was that there was NO video! LOL

The real video was MUCH better! R we sure Paris is not working for HILLARY??? She did a damn fine job!

Jez I think I’ve been wrong about her too! (my head is spinning)

lol

TeaMug

I actually think Paris is great, thought that for along time.

TeaMug

I have just watched the video again. I noticed it has over 2 million 800 thousands hits. Wow!! By the end of the day, I bet it will break the 3 million mark!! Go Paris!!

Hillary Clinton for President

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

W0WWEE!

NO for O

I thought the same thing. She is working for HRC.
I thought it was funny, especially the “guy for change” phrase. She doesn’t hurt McCain. She keeps him in the eye of the public.
Fox cannot get enough of the video.
She may turn off some of the kids, but she certainly will hit a cord with the older (+ 40) crowd. Children should not pick presidents.

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

Children should not pick presidents.

Exactly!!
no waffles aka drkate

I loved the “see you at the debate, bitches!”

obamaphobe

You know that Obama will be vacationing in Hawaii soon. Does anyone think that is coincidental? I’ll be curious if he comes back with a “legitimate” (riiight) copy of a birth certificate from Hawaii.

pasmalltowngirl

Sure he will. He has had plenty of time to have some thug make him an authentic looking fake one. Then he can tell us that Grandma-ma had it in her cedar chest for safe keeping.

no waffles aka drkate

probably,but he still has some explaining to do about possible illegal activities. he’s not out of the woods or the water just yet.

Anyone have any friends in HI who could stake out the HI BC office?

JoseyJ

Look for another half nude pic of Obama on the cover of People magazine – swimming in Hawaii.
Gotta keep Obama Girls pumped up!

NO for O

Ok, there went brunch!

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

lmao!

Ben4Obama

Umm What are you even talking about… are you effing retarded? People are saying “children” should not pick presidents I simply hope you don’t vote in the election because clearly the neurons aren’t firing in your brain. Also, I’m wondering what people mean when the say that, that “children should not pick presidents.” I can only imagine they mean those aged 18-24 – please you call this demographic a class of children… I can’t imagine that you have any problem with this same age group joining the military and being given the responsibility of taking a human life though – because that makes sense…

CheatedFLVoter

Great coverage from Israel Insider. Too bad we don’t get that kind of reporting here.
educatedwhitewoman

I wish that the Fed’s would look into Obama’s fraudulent overseas campaign contributions. See article at the IsrealiInsider (link above).

Sharon

Trash is trash no matter how rich you are. The only reason she is a celebrity because of her looks and having money. Apparently you don’t have to have brains to be a celebrity. She is such a bad example for all the little girls growing up. She was Larry King and said she was going to get involved with helping others. The only person she helps is herself.

sjc-tx

Sharon.. You’ve missed the point entirely….

Sharon

You’re right! Sorry! But I still stand by comments on my thoughts of her.

roseeriter

Many of us see Paris same as you Sharon. No wonder the kids are so lazy and asking for plastic surgery- so they can be famous too. Some aspiration.

Anyone seen the documentary 2Million Seconds?

HotGreen

Amazing! PUMA’s go targeting women. Instead of standing up for Paris, you guys bash her! What about Hillary? This PUMA stuff is so ridiculous. One day, you’re all about women, the next day, you bash them.

Paris is more than just pretty and rich! She is obviously smart too because she got a thread on this website dedicated to her!

Losers!

roseeriter

Beat off someplace else buddy.
Dawnelle Leona del Puma

I thought Paris did a fine job.

Tis YOU that sounds like a sore loser! Not everyone has the same taste.

Tape it to your forehead in reverse so you can read it next time you are looking in your stained glass mirror, mmmmmmkay?
imustprotest

Paris Hilton glorifies and epitomizes the type of sexism and misogyny that I find so repulsive in our culture and in this primary.
The saddest part is that Paris herself capitalizes on it in exchange for her “celebrity” status. People like Paris have set the Woman’s Movement back decades.

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

nahhh!

She’s young.

My daughter got over it.

Postmaster

Paris Hilton’s parents missed a good opportunity to properly raise a child.

roseeriter

Maybe not- mydaughter was so into Madonna- the look, clothes..Oy, but she got over it and has two masters degrees and has gone aunatural..

But I don’t like the exploitation of young girls like what happened to Brittany- no wonder she’s such a mess now. And it is exploitation.

eurogirl70

and the only reason dear Sharon that Obama is where he is today is because white, libertarian Svengali’s like David Axelrod, William Ayers, The Crowne Family (Maytag), and Mayor Daley [to name but a few] have been pushing him forward.

You tell me how someone with no legislative record gets elected to the Senate? Oh, I know you find yourself a sugar daddy in the form of Emil Jones, climb all over your fellow AA legislative cohorts who HAVE been doing the hard work of legislating, to toss your dumbass the ball for the whole last year of your time in the Illinois legislature.

Alex…I would like to buy Sharon a clue please!
Hope Floats

Paris and Britney mentality is responsible for the Obama phenomenon. Obviously, both of these celebrities have good business sense. Britney was very talented. But people measure your worth by how much you get paid to do, and the less you do, the better you’re doing. So, Paris is seen as living an enviable life. I think it’s an unfulfilling life, but I can appreciate what she does and her success.

StrawberrybitesBarky

Hope, they do not have good business sense, they hire people with good business sense. My brother is a CPA with a firm whose clients are worth 2 million or more and he has to babysit the trustfund twits like Paris. Many of them can barely read and none of them can even balance a checkbook. I mean, how in the hell can one skinny bimbo blow through $28,000 a month without knowing where she blew it. And no boobjobs are not tax deductible unless you’re a stripper. And all those cash withdrawels at the ATM at 3AM may be a tad hard to explain to daddy and the cops. Meanwhile both my brother and I are slowly paying off our student loans and trying to put something away for retirement and our own kids college education. So yeah, when I see Paris porking strange guys on YouTube and hear her make an ass of herself, knowing she has never worked a day in her life, I do get a little peeved. And no, I don’t think she’s pretty. She’s thin and tan and she has a great make up consultant, the best money can buy and that’s it.

ownaa

Yet just to make a statement, I would vote for her before I vote for Obama
Andy Lewis

She was Larry King

Omigod, whadda transformation!

http://www.sugarnspice.typepad.com Sugar

“$only 9.99 to produce” That is HILARIOUS! One thing BHO does well is waste money. Either Hillary is our nominee or McCain will crush him.

workingclass artist

It is hysterical….One thing that Hilton has over Barry…LOL….SHE CAN PROVE SHE WLL BE CONSTITUTIONALLY ELIGIBLE IN A FEW YEARS…..chuckle…
PONY UP THE AUTHENTIC RECORDS BARRY!…..ALL OF THEM…

Deelee

“I want America to know that I’m, like, totally ready to lead.”

Sorry Paris, although I personally think you’re more qualified than him to do the job, some air-head is already saying that. The only problem is HE, and a bunch of misguided democratic party leaders believe it.

NO for O

She is totally ready to lead…she just doesn’t understand what that means. Oh well, off to the Barbie house for her. Hey, she can have a Barbie plane as well and decorate it in pink too.

wry

I really don’t want to talk about Paris Hilton. She’s emblematic of the dumbing down of our society which allows a candidate like Barack Obama to rise.

Can I go off topic for a minute? I am still heated up over that piece of sh*# Obama never apologizing for Bill Clinton being characterized as a racist.

Bill feeling the need to address it in an interview from Liberia…LIBERIA…means it’s still hurting him. And if it’s still hurting him, then that arrogant pr*#k Obama damn well better address it.

That’s the speech about race I need to see, or Barky can go to He^@ for all I care.

I live in a solidly blue state so there’s no point in voting for McCain…but I’ll vote for Cynthia McKinney just to spite Barky and his naive punk supporters.

Is any one else still as angry about the DNC defaming our President William Jefferson Clinton as I am?

http://www.greensunshine.net jadwiga

Nothing is forgotten.
I am furious about the underhanded attacks on the Clintons.
He should have apologized for it the least.
JoseyJ

Exactly!! the media asked Bill if an Empty Suit is qualified to be president. Another gotcha! for Bill.
The media should be asking Obama – and Clyburn & Jackson who perpetuated the narrative – is Bill Clinton a racist?
Heather

Yes! Bill Clinton is a giant of a man in my view. Smart, savvy, honest, self-aware, generous, plugged into reality and the universe …I could go on but I don’t want to sound like I’m slobbering ….

I believe the Clintons were blindsided by the race card. Savvy politicians that they surely are, they still never dreamed that race could be used in such a blatantly underhanded way, in 2008, by someone in their own party. Bill is obviously furious at Obama and at the people (like Clyburn) who fell for the trick or … more likely …. used the trick for their own political gain.

There are others though who support him, and of course some of these have received ugly threats from the Obama camp so they don’t all speak up as freely as they would like.

My favorite quote (sorry if it offends anyone, but I think it speaks volumes): Andrew Young, contemporary and close friend of MLK, was heard to quip: “Bill Clinton has slept with a lot more black women than Barack Obama.”

wry

Heather, I like that quote too…and it’s true!
I always say Barky only dated Michelle because he wanted to meet her brother.

dee4hill

Oh, you’re definitely not alone here. Bill Clinton is the greatest politician of our time. The very thing they chide him about, is what I admire most about him. His outspokenness. I’m tired of all the guarded words, carefully-phrased-politcally correct-focus group-approved statements. I want a man (or woman) that says what they feel, who isn’t afraid to speak their mind and stands up for their convictions AND their family. And Bill’s the man!

I’d vote for him every 4 years if I could… and so would the majority of all Democrats.

Hillary or McCain ’08!!!
ritamary

I am still angry about the millions of dollars Ken Starr used to investigate the Clintons in the 90s. And now for a so-called Democrat to pile on and use all the Republican talking points against the Clintons AND call them racists! Well, I am one PO’d person. I will not forget come November.

This morning I was talking to my son’s girlfriend about Obama. She has never voted and has no interest in politics. After I got done with her she is now ready to vote for McCain.
mary

I like Pres. Bill Clinton. His 8 years were the best. Barack diminished Bill back at the primaries when he said in one of uh uh uh speeches that Nixon and Reagan were at the “trajectory” of history…and totally left out Bill Clinton’s legacy!

Barry Hussein knows how to diminish people. He tried that with Hillary and outdid the misogynist media in bashing her–but CAMOUFLAGED SEXISM was the Gender Card he played and his Chicago sewer campaign played their dirty RAce-baiting card on Bill!
Wry -

Obambi should APOLOGIZE to both Bill and Sen. Hillary Clinton.

by the way, please read today’d WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL by HILLARY CLINTON bashing Bush’s bailouts to energy companies…CORPORATE WELFARE BUMS…

P.s. Bill Clinton is the most respected presidnet of the U.S. abroad and Canada! How could that mickey mouse hopey-dopey Paris Hilton Obambi ever think that he would be anything but a footnote after November….

yttik

Why not Paris Hilton for Prez? We just had George Bush. Now people are considering Obama. You don’t get more empty headed then those two. Paris would a major improvment.

Besides, she never invaded a country under false pretenses. She never left people in Chicago without heat for four months.

It amazes me that we judge Paris so harshly. In the grand scheme of crimes against humanity, she’s not even on the list.

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

Word!
bemused

And, she did neatly skewer both BO and McCain–when she was waving her arms describing the energy plan I thought of Hillary moving in just that way. I’d give Paris points for being uppity about being used in McCain’s ad.

AF catfish

Off topic but
Obama’s Muslim Coordinator Resigns (only 10 days after being hired):

Barack Obama’s national Muslim outreach coordinator has resigned amid a controversy of over his connections to a man who the Justice Department named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers.

Amplify we need noise on this! Mr. Judgement strikes again!

B from Bloomington

NICE! Where’s the change, bo? All I see is a bunch of criminals.
AF catfish

Here’s one with more detail (FOX of course) Obama Muslim Affairs Coordinator Quits Nine Days Into Job

The man in charge of recruiting Muslims to support Barack Obama resigned from the campaign on Monday — just nine days after being appointed — when an Internet newsletter revealed the man was on the board of an Islamic investment fund on which a fundamentalist imam also sits.

workingclass artist

Funny that….indicative of an Obama administration….9 days….sheesh!

NO for O

Isn’t that special? Wow, the under the bus crowd is getting humongous.
Raven

What is it that OB says, “I had the JUDGEMENT!”
I say dig deeper!
Heather

“He’s not the Hamas militant I knew.”

MrMike

What’s up with the video? there is a message it’s no longer available.

TeaMug

Try this:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d

ugo

Yes it is funny, let get back to the issues.

This is not a game. It is serious business!!
John

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/06/martin.billclinton/index.html

Another “Bil Clinton and his wife ran a racist campaign and now AAs don’t like him anymore and Obama can’t save his reputation just take my word for it the only proof I have is that a few AA Superdelegates betrayed Hillary and used the trumped-up ‘Racist’ charge as an excuse for their bailing” article courtesy of CNN. Read it only if you’ve run short of syrup of Ipecac.

Sharon

I just read it. I am so angry. I have complained to CNN all during the primary on him, Carl Bernstein and Donna Brazile.
VMorris

Thanks for the warning. The MSM are nothing but a bunch of Obama weenies. Bill Clinton is 100 times the man Obama is and 1000 times better president that stinky BO will ever be.
wry

Thanks John, I won’t read it. Your Cliff Notes are excellent.

Manu

This is funny and it underscores McCain’s point: Anyone with a teleprompter can sound smart.

VMorris

Bingo!!!
Heather

Bingo times 10! Yes, yes, oh yessie yes. That IS the point isn’t it? She sounds damned good talking about energy policy.

So … McCain’s next ad should be some famous dimwit reading ‘we are the ones we’ve been waiting for’ and ‘words? just words?’ and other choice ‘hope’ and ‘change’ samples off a teleprompter.

America would see this stuff for the empty demagoguery that it is.

wry

Heather, you’re on today. That’s a great idea for a commercial. Various twits regurgitating Barky/Axelfraud word for word.

Mr.Murder

Paris Hilton is a blonde inheritance trust fund baby.

See also Mrs.McCain, hawt.

As for this energy plan, what is this idea about incentives for businesses? They should have already paid to get this renewable energy overhaul done. Adapt or perish. Let teh market decide!

It all has a taxpayer subsidized giveaway feel to it. This is like railroad land leases to the Rockefellors back in the day. Yeah, let’s give business everything so they can charge us money for it!

AF catfish

Mrs. McCain has a master’s degree and a pilot’s license. She is also a humanitarian and wrote a wonderful OpEd on Rwanda’s Women Leading the Way back to life from the genocide that ravaged that country in the 1990s.

But that is just the beginning. A new constitution ratified in 2003 required that women occupy at least 30% of the seats in parliament. (In our House and Senate only about 17% of the seats are filled by women.) Some wondered at the time whether it was feasible to meet this target. Now, nearly half of parliament and a third of the president’s cabinet posts are held by women. Rwanda today has the world’s highest percentage of female legislators.

Rwanda has a dark past but a bright future. It has a long way to go — the country remains one of the world’s poorest, and the social reverberations of the genocide are evident everywhere. Yet in the midst of tragedy, the women are building something genuinely new. Perhaps it is fitting that a nation so wracked by death could give birth to a vibrant new age. I know that one thing is clear: Through their bold and courageous actions, these women should inspire not only their fellow Africans, but all individuals — men and women — across the globe.

Heather

THANK YOU. I think we’ve just seen a commenter play “the blonde card”. You nipped it nicely in the bud.
ritamary

Cindy McCain has distinguished herself as an individual with her charity work. What charities does Michelle Obama support besides Reverend Wright’s church?

yttik

“Paris Hilton is a blonde inheritance trust fund baby.”

Yes Mr. Murder, but couldn’t the same be said about George Bush? Didn’t he have everything handed to him, his C+ education, his coushy stint in the National Guard?

It isn’t fair that people’s hatred and disgust is always directed at Paris Hilton. I think it’s sexism. Nobody ever calls Bush a dumb blond and that’s in spite of the way he speaks. I mean come on, at least Paris Hilton can form a complete sentance.

And Obama, Mr. Just-Inflate-Your-Tires, empty of policy and experience, but full of male priviledge, feels perfectly entitled to run for the presidency. He’s no more qualified to lead then she is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kLrnEVq9R0 Woman Voter

What would be good is if Paris agreed to debate Mc Cain while Obama hides.

McCain responded and said he thinks her plan is better than Obama’s. Ouch!
Joe

I’ll vote for her over the Messiah anytime.

Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

If nothing else she’s the poster girl for the Drill Here Drill Now plan.

http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/ NotYoursweetie

Loved mcCain’s answer!
PUMAs in the meanwhile make news in Denver:
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/pumas-make-denver-news/

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

yea EVEN in 2008 tsk :-/ makes me growly again! grr grr

I’m TIRED OF BEING NICE

MY CLAWS ARE NO LONGER RETRACTABLE!!

bemused

Mine seem to be developing steel tips…

pm317

Princess O’s response is typical, don’t you think? no sense of humor..They would have done better ignoring it.
Heather

Paris 2020!

How I’d love to see her whup CNN someday, after the horrible number they did on her back in the days before they had Hillary to kick around with their misogyny.

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

that’s true

CheatedFLVoter

Breaking…..On Fox right now Fox investigates voter fraud in Alabama.
roseeriter

Fox just reported lots Of voter fraud in Alabama

I wonder who committed the fraud?
OBushMA!

Paris has an excuse. She’s a pampered attention whore who is as stupid as she looks. BO is a self-made disaster, an affirmative-action “world leader” who is stupider than he seems. Hopefully, enough Americans are not stupid enough to indulge either’s craving for attention.

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

whore? come on?

you can’t be a woman

or at least not a mother of a daughter
Heather

Congratulations, you’ve just played “the blonde card” here, showing yourself to be a whore of sorts: a media whore who’ll do anything, say anything, believe anything the media tell you to.

Annie

I never liked Paris but I am changing my viewpoint. That is one great response to McCain’s ad. I like the fact that McCain appreciated its humor and the fact that Obama’s camp did not.

I certainly think Paris would be a better alternative to Barry Soleto as President.
Linda

You know, I think Paris’ little attempt at getting more spotlight for herself is actually helping McCain.

First, she proves the snotty attitude these celebrities seem to share with her personally attacking McCain with her description of “wrinkly”…and also cements the fact that any conceded, empty head celebrity thinks they should be president.

It also gave McCain another opportunity to address the issue and be in the spotlight with a VERY good response.

can we get a “My bad” from Britney’s BFF, Paris? lmao

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

who did the FIRST ad using Paris’s image? Wasn’t that McCain? Didn’t he need her permission for that?

just sayin

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

I think Paris is a PUMA in training.

Heather

Yes, could be. Let’s sign her up!

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

I’ll share my chair with her. I’m sure she doesn’t take up much room.

Seriously, I’d take her over Britney (sorry Brit) that girl I hope is getting the counseling she requires.

REAL train wreck.
ritamary

Send Paris to represent PUMA to all the Obots living in their parents’ basements.

Heather

It was not a little attempt at getting more spotlight for herself”, it was satire.

Sheesh, I’m surprised to see people here at noquarter falling for the media lies about young women who happen to be pretty, when they didn’t fall for the media’s lies about Hillary. Um … anyone see a pattern here? Media lying about women, generally?

For a change go educate yourselves on how young rich MEN drive drunk and tear up hotel rooms and rape young women and otherwise misbehave in a variety of ways that seldom get reported in the misogynist MSM.

Uña de Gato

Sounds like you’re describing the Kennedy men at the end there.

Dawnelle Leona del Puma

Una is BACK!!
Hope Floats

Or Kobe.
Heather

Yes that’s one group. Then there are the Keifer Sutherlands who do jail time for DUI but you have to dig to find it.

brodie

I was actually pleasantly surprised with Paris’ reply. For one thing, she is much more capable of speaking informally than Obummer and for another, her energy plan DOES make more sense than his. How pitiful is it that Paris seems to be much smarter than Barky? Sheesh- WAKE UP, AMERICA! Dump the Obummer quickly- there’s still time. Hillary awaits in the wings to be brought back on stage. Do the right thing, SDs!

P.U.M.A.!!
Andy

This Ad is certainly NOT good for Obama.
It throws the Celeb Ad to BO’s face all over again but
with a renew sense of glitter and rehersal; just like
Paris Hilton here. The imagery of that Ad comes back with force with Paris Hilton’s new Ad.

McCain’s response is excellent. He certainly wins hands down on the witty department. Obama’s lack of self-deprecating humor; taking himself all that seriously with his airplane chair and all only enhances
the idea he’s all glitter and no substance.

I read someowhere the Obama campaign was “sternly muted” in its response…

You see, when teh Celeb ad appear intead of all the race biting BO should have just said: Oh well,I am flatered and honored to be in an Ad with two beautiful women…. That would have ended it.
Talk about being political and otherwise deaf….

Rev. Wright, can you fix my garlic nose?

Not just political and otherwise deaf…he pulled out the race card because it always worked in the past.

Oh well better switch to Plan B.

standard

am I the only person who thinks it’s offensive
that McCain used two women as a negative reference?

Jane

I think the question is beyond the campaigns. It’s more of why does society want all women to act like a Paris or Brittany instead of women showing their intelligence and leadership abilities.

Heather

Exactly, young pretty women are STEERED into self-destruction behavior by a variety of societal factors, including pressure from the MEN who control studios, modeling agencies, and other work opportunities.

The Olson Twins come to mind. Everyone makes fun of them, for anorexia no less which is a terrible disease. They were extremely talented and vibrant little girls, yet somehow they are easy marks. I’ve even heard men on NPR (“Wait Wait don’t tell Me”, the nerd show of the universe) make fun of Britney to get a cheap easy laugh.

This is EXACTLY the same impulse that encouraged the public humiliation of Hillary Clinton. Is it that hard to see the connection, people?

StrawberrybitesBarky

No, it’s not, but try and tell that to girls today and they laugh at you. My kids are young and I’m glad I don’t have girls, three boys, but when I go to pick them up at school, I see kindergarteners wearing make up and short shorts, glitter and multiple earrings. And the generation Y moms are going into debt bigtime just to keep their kids in the bling bling. It’s sickening.

Heather

I have a 17-year-old daughter and it has been an extremely painful journey for me. It’s truly no-win situation, from the get-to. Let me share just a little bit of it:

At three years old, my daughter announced she was going to be a man when she grew up. Why, I asked? “Because women can’t do anything.” I tried to mount an argument against this unassailable 3-year-old logic (NOT about her ability to grow up to be a man, but the other issue) but felt vaguely as though I’d fallen flat.

At four years of age she removed the training wheels from her bike without our help (she was angry at us for something), so I thought “Aha, we have an engineer here!” But by age 7 she was saying “math is for boys”, “chess is for boys”, and then by 12 she was saying “math and engineering is for asians.” This stuff is beyond my control.

Ages 6-10, it’s all about Barbie with all the bad messages that sends. Are you going to tell your daughter she can’t have one when everyone else has them? Then the fest friend has a “make-over” birthday party at age 9. Are you going to tell your daughter she can’t go? Then it’s Britney Spears and the little girls love her while the school teacher tells the little girls she’s a tramp. Which is worse? Encourage Britney love, or make little feel like shit for liking a tramp? No way to win.

Then ages 14-17 are basically full time depression. Who wouldn’t be depressed, at this point? You get your period. You find our your idols the Olson Twins are nothing more than media laughing stocks. You realize older women (what you someday will become) are universally hated in the media. You figure out that no woman has ever been President, then the one who comes closest gets insulted in public. You hear boys making fun of “the ugly girl” and “the fat girl”. It’s an endless onslaught.

Relief, when it arrives, is too often in the form of a boy who is head over heels in love with you, and it helps you forget all the awfulness around you. So, you take it.

StrawberrybitesBarky, you are lucky to have boys.

Heather

Apologies for all the typos. Hope you can read through them.
wodiej

I have an 11 yr old neighbor who has parents that both share all of the responsibilities. Her Mom helps her Dad sometimes in the yard or w home improvements. Her Dad helps cook and clean. Her Dad takes her to Home Depot where she builds things and uses tools. She also helps Mom at home with cooking and laundry. I live next door and she sees me do all of these things also. I think alot of it is just who the kids are around. When I was growing up, my parents shared the responsibilities also. My Dad was not too proud to load the dishwasher and do laundry. I think alot of it is just who and what the kids are exposed to. Some can’t be helped because they are at school.

Heather

Well, it is true that when my daughter was 3 I spent a lot of time working in high tech and making twice what my husband makes. So yes he was seen doing things around the house more than I was. Ironic isn’t it?

wodiej

doesn’t it really make you wonder where kids get these ideas?? I hear my neighbor say things and I think “what the ??”

ritamary

My daughter was way more problematic than my two sons. My sons stayed busy playing sports and did not have time to get into much trouble.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. They all eventually grow up. My daughter can relate to some of my issues way better than my sons can at this point in life.

Sadly all three of my children are Obots to one degree or another. They are mystified that I am planning to vote for McCain. I tell myself this will be an important life experience for them, especially once the Obama cult comes crashing down.

This is a life lesson for me too, because I relied on our schools and universities to teach my children critical thinking skills. I should have worked harder at it myself.

wodiej

I couldn’t agree more. The glamour mags, modeling and all that other horseshit. I don’t have any kids but if I did the girls would not be wearing short shorts and skimpy blouses. And the boys would learn to respect females. This is exactly why society keeps treating women this way because Mom’s keep allowing it. They groom their daughters to be mistreated. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON THEM.

Heather

Please read my long post, just above yours, about raising a girl.

It is NOT MOTHERS’ fault! Jeez, that’s just one more way society has of insulting women.

Instead, blame the people who have power in this society: the media moguls who sell crap to girls (98% men), the script writers who write crappy parts for girls and women (judging by Terri Gross interviews, 80% men), the modeling agency heads who force women to do demeaning things for money then sell the crap to women who feel they’re not pretty enough (because boys told them so when they were 16). And so on. I’m sure you get my point, at this point.

StrawberrybitesBarky

Heather, I feel for you, I really do but if you saw the young mothers today and how they are raising their girls, you’d puke. Barbies, puh, that’s for the old folks, they want Bratz Babies (babies in diapers, black leather and make up, pedophilia anyone?) Ask what they want to be when they grow up, cheer leaders, strippers, and many just want to be rich party girls that don’t work but sleep with guys and get bling. At least Barbie wanted to be a doctor, and I believe there was even an Army Barbie. My boys can cook, do laundry, vacuum and they also play football, tae kwon do, wrestling and get good grades. They can’t stand the girls of today. They want girls with brains and are athletic…a dying breed. I also feel the women’s right’s movement has been set back decades by this generation.

Heather

Yes it bugs me too. That’s why I’m glad Paris came back with some satire and got her chance to call him “wrinkly” and “white haired dude”. A small measure of justice in an unjust world.

Jane

… not only that she also showed up Obama by doing a better job speaking than he ever has.

wry

I didn’t find it offensive, and I’m a rabid feminist. He was using them to illustrate ALL FAME, NO TALENT. Their sex was irrelevant.

yttik

Paris Hilton is entitled to some respect. Seriously, calling her a whore, a blond bimbo, etc is all really sexist. How about using some of those terms to describe George Bush? Nope, even though we pay him, even though he’s caused a lot of damage, who do we show the most disgust towards? Paris Hilton.

McCain holds her up as an example of empty headed celebrity and then the some so called progressives see her as a “ho”, someone who represents a racist attack on Obama. It’s ridiculous, she’s like a ping pong ball for both side’s misogyny.

wodiej

I don’t agree w calling Paris Hilton a whore, ho, blonde bimbo etc. Often times women are told to “play dumb” to appease their male directors, co-stars etc. Often times they are very intelligent. Whether Paris is I have no idea. At the very least they do have feelings. I’ve never heard of Paris Hilton having alot of different men so I don’t know why the label.

wry

WODIEJ she did a home made porn video and sold it on the internet. That’s how she became well known. That and she’s famous for dancing on tables with no underwear.
That’s why the label.
Although I don’t like “blonde bimbo” and “whore” because they’re specific to women, but air headed, no talent celebrity remarks are fair game.

WIldChild

All I know is that Paris Hilton is rolling in dough. Most of it she earned from her own modeling career. I have to laugh when people knock her for being an airhead because from where I’m sitting we’re the ones getting played and she’s the one laughing all the way to the bank.

voterinexile

Paris is a clever blonde.
Hillary is a clever blonde.

Paris is famous for being famous.
Obama is famous for being famous.

Only Paris knows where she is from and who she is.
Obama is trying to be the Paris Hilton of politics.

Paris is just showing him how it’s done.
Her ad underscores her own AND Obama’s celebrity, McCain’s point.

McCain scores.

Obambi-or-McCave: Dumb-and-Dumber

voterInExile -

No, no, no! McCain tries to score. And what’s with you GOP friend, calling Hillary merely a “clever blonde”?

HIllary has more intelligence in her little finger than McCave and Obambi have in both their sadly deteriorated brains!

Come on, now, we get more appreciation from McCain when he said this in Bagdad when he was there with Hillary in 2005:

“Sen. Hillary Clinton I have no doubt will make a very good president” — Sen. McCain to tim Russert Meet the Press interview.

Now, why don’t you gop-guy quit your trolling on this INDEPENDENT PUMA site and go back and learn from your old wrinkly guy…r-e-s-p-e-c-t and by the way that’s why women stay away from voting Repugnant…sorry Republican!!

this election leaves a tough choice!

Who to vote for?

A bumbling old fool
or
A fumbling stuttering gypsy-traveller

The real choice is Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton–THE ONLY INTELLIGENT CHOICE.

The other 2 are just floating turds….

PUMAS roar!

Andy

Like Abe Greenwald at Commentary Magazine wrote on Paris Hilton’s ad:

Has anyone noticed that Paris Hilton’s satirical “energy policy” is virtually identical to Barack Obama’s actual plan?

In the time it took Paris to get that video out, Obama had already changed his policy–to hers. Here’s what the Democratic nominee had to say last Friday:

My interest is in making sure we’ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage — I don’t want to be so rigid that we can’t get something done.

….

She calls the plan a “hybrid;” he calls it a “compromise.” But in any event, Obama can’t be happy that his new energy policy is hard to tell apart from the fake one offered up by tabloid socialite. I think this celebrity ad thing has come full circle.

(Emphasis mine)

Compromise, compromise…Obama would sell his shirt to Reps. for compromise. Someone should teach him that there are certain things,called “core principles” it is worth fighting for…
wodiej

I think it’s great how Paris responded. It draws even more attention to Obama just being a “rock star”.
squeazzy

Obama responses

Ahmadinejad: Always
Paris Hilton: Whatever
McCain: No thanks I don’t dare
Hillary Clinton: Impossible I’m clueless
http://NeedtoKnow need to know

I loved Paris’ response. It had style. This gal has rehabilitated herself into a class act. Hope McCain invites her to the convention…actually think they’d get along fine.
Bridgette

The video doesn’t work anymore…
sayitisntso

Israelinsider isn’t saying one of the most important discoveries which is that if Bho is really Barry Suetoro….(stay with me here)

…and was adopted by his Indonesian step-father and LIVED in a police state that REQUIRED citizenship of that country for residency and education benefits….

(almost done)…he would NOW be a Dual Citizen removing his right to run for President of the United States. Even if he really WAS born in HI.
sayitisntso

I really doubt that African Americans appreciate the insult from CNN that they can’t think for themselves!

Remember, the mainstream media dumbs down EVERYBODY!
CountryFirst

I dont know about Paris. As a person who is beginning to get some streaks of white in the hair, she turned me off with the “white-hair dude” bit. Somehow, dude and white-hair used together didn’t resonate with me!
Kathryn

I can’t believe I am sticking up for Paris, but before you slam her as a bimbo you should know that she is not a pampered kitten and in fact runs her own company, and runs it well.

She is a smart cookie and her response was clever and did exactly what she intended it to do.

She was thrust into the spotlight by a BETRAYAL of trust by a sleazy jerk and she has handled that incredibly well considering how devastating that must have been to her.
She is a victim of the MEDIA hype machine, she shouldn’t be vilified for making the best of it.
http://www.despair.com/changewinds.html Smilin’ Jim

The only astounding thing about this add is the unvoiced assumption by many who have commented here that it was put together by Hilton instead of the Obama subordinates in Hollywood like David Geffen.