Because it doesn't merit much except scoffs; it's pathetic if not bizarre.

I would say they came too late to be fully effective. (We knew about his celebrity-cult following months ago.) For the sake of additional noteworthiness: Had the McCain campaign sought what some suspected months ago, to hope for Clinton rather than Obama to be the nominee because Clinton's negatives were so much higher, then if anything the McCain campaign should have run the celebrity ads at a time that was too early to be most effective against Obama (which would have been some weeks ago but long after Super Tuesday, at the point where he had clinched the effective nomination). McCain could have run these ads with great effect before Super Tuesday to weaken or wound the Obama campaign.

The ads to this day still expose the core of the Obama phenomenon (that word alone conveying and implying the obvious about the guy) and have provoked all kinds of silliness by defensive Obama people — including the Obama campaign. Pathetic! Obama's campaign just got much more lame than McCain's right now.

This is a bogus, worthless argument.

There is no comparison between the amount of attention Obama has gotten (he has been treated as a saint as well as a celebrity) compared to McCain.

The only time McCain and “celebrity” have been together is in the current worthless bogus argument made in stupid defensiveness of a valid criticism of Obama. Only now do we hear this piece of stupidity. What noteworthy timing!

That Obama would present an ad with this bogus, worthless, self-lowering argument (as is true with everyone else who has made it) shows he continues to stumble.

Anyone who disputes this only looks just as bad. Smarter people say: When will Obama recover?

What's the solution? Use their smears against them.

Headline: 3 puppies strangled in Peoria:

Blogger reaction: Why hasn't the group I hate responded yet?! Clearly they like puppy strangling!

If Obama had initiated the attacks, that would be a different story.

Actually, most of the “peeping” I've heard on the left had more to do with disappointment that Obama wasn't hitting back. This ad makes the point that whatever celebrity status McCain has is a result of his influence in Washington. Would anyone dispute that?

Welcome to the gutter of politics Mr. Obama. As he says at the end of the add.

“I'm Barak Obama and I approve this message.”

T-Steel had an excellent post a week or so back, distinquishing between fame and celebrity.

This is what I would call “Looking For Nuance Where None Was Intended.”

Truman was widely criticized, while VP, for that famous picture of him playing a piano with a sultry Lauren Bacall atop it in a classic torch singer pose. Truman kicked himself afterwards about it, and admitted it was a boner.

In contrast: McCain LOVED hanging with the SNL people.

Now it is standard operating procedure for a candidate for president to announce their candidacy on the Tonight Show or Letterman.

What started the sad convergence of Hollywood and Washington?

Reagan? Clinton?

T-Steel was the only person I saw, in all the hoopla about the ads, actually thinking about the concept of “celebrity”.

That said, it is good to see the Obama campaign acknowledging what almost every pundit … and most folks here at TMV … have done their best to deny for some reason. The “Celebrity” ads were a masterstroke.

Yes, McCain cleared loved being on SNL and such. Equally clearly, for all his time doing this, he has not exploded into celebrity superstardom as Obama has.

When Scarlett Johannsen declares her crush on McCain, there is a mammoth fundraiser for McCain in Hollywood, and McCain and Cindy are on the cover of People in soft focus. . . any one of these, I will reconsider.

We will never . . . EVER . . . see a mammoth McCain fundraiser in Hollywood (they gave him some handouts when he opposed Bush, that's about it).

Hollywood has given Obama their love. Good or bad, that makes him “The Celebrity” in this race.