The increasingly desperate McCain campaign

The Republican attack machine is running out of steam. After successfully depicting a real war hero as effeminate and "French" while turning a wimpy war-dodger into a tough guy in 2004, McCain's spokespeople are trying to do the same now. McCain's campaign manager just described Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world" and compared him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He then added: "I think there's an expectation that the American people, not the French president, will decide who the next president is going to be."

This is such a convincing argument against a candidate who has consistently appealed to people's intelligence! When faced with someone who gave one of the most eloquent and thoughtful electoral speeches on the influence of race in America, it is only natural that you then depict that person as similar to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. November will be a landslide. (Unless electronic votes or voting machines will mysteriously and unverifiably go missing in Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Virginia.)