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p>As far as Paris Hilton I guess I got the impression she really didn't take it all that seriously and was just having fun. Why should she be mad? Publicity is publicity. She said things like "I'll propose my energy plan when I'm done getting a tan" which was kind of a tip that she isn't really somebody we need to be listening to. If she really was put up to it by Obama's friends in Hollywood I think it backfired. As it was McCain's campaign took it perfectly by saying that she had a more substantive energy plan than Obama. br> If the end result is a) more focus on substance by the candidates, b) a good laugh all around and c) a deflation of the idea that Obama should be elected because he is the biggest rock star, then everybody wins, especially McCain. /p> p>And by the way, somebody ask Mr. Stein how the "Lone Survivor" movie is coming along... br> -- Roy Koczela /p>

Ben needs to Lighten up a little. John McCain's commercial on the media cult of celebrity central to Obama's campaign did use Paris Hilton as a calibration marker in media obsession. She is perfectly responsible in commenting on it.

p>Paris Hilton is known for many things. Ben is right that all of them are light weight. When her "response" to John McCain showed more gravitas than the entire DNC and Obama campaign combined and an energy policy to the right of anything that the House of Representatives Speaker will allow to be discussed, Paris did the country no harm. She now serves as a scale to which Congressional Representatives can be held. "Is he/she as responsible as Paris Hilton?" My congressman here in eastern Connecticut, one of the men who tried to purge Joe Lieberman from the Senate, certainly is not. br> -- Gregory Franke /p> p> BLAND, BORING... PERFECT? br> Re: Jeremy Lott's

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