McCain ad paints Obama as a celebrity, not a leader

0 Comments | USA TODAY, July, 2008 | by Mark Memmott

Republican John McCain's presidential campaign released a TV ad Wednesday that compares Democrat Barack Obama's popularity to that of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and questions whether being a "celebrity" qualifies someone to be president. It's called Celeb.

The ad also makes the case, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said, that Obama is unsuited to be president like those two young pop stars and that the Illinois senator favors higher taxes.

Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor replied that McCain had launched "yet another" false and negative attack. Paraphrasing Spears' hit, Vietor said of McCain that, "oops, he did it again."

Wednesday evening, the Obama campaign released an ad, which it plans to broadcast today, called Low Road. It says...