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That’s not really news, we all know John McCain cheated on his first wife.  But Alan Colmes actually had some fun with that fact on Hannity & Colmes.  Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for pointing out this hilarious video:

Barack Obama hits back at McCain with “Embrace”:

In a year when voters want anything but a Washington insider, this is exactly the kind of ad Obama should be running.

I’m sure by now you’ve seen Paris Hilton’s response to John McCain’s attack ad:

Well, The Christian Science Monitor decided to take a look at the Hilton Energy Plan.

Joseph Romm, a former Clinton energy adviser and the blogger for Climate Progress, estimates that offshore drilling would net “under 100,000 barrels a day in supply sometime after 2020 — some one-thousandth of total supply.”

And, despite its assertions, McCain’s campaign actually knows better. In June, senior McCain campaign adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin acknowledged to the LA Times that “new offshore drilling would have no immediate effect on supplies or prices.” He should have added that it will have no real long-term effect, either.

Seems like this just keep coming up doesn’t it?  Let me emphasize it one more time just to make sure the point is made:

Offshore Drilling will not have an effect on oil prices.

Despite what John McCain may say, Offshore Drilling is a scam.  It’s a way for Republicans to claim they are providing a solution, without really addressing the problem.  It sounds good, but does nothing.  Don’t believe their lies.

Barack Obama isn’t going to let ignorance steal this election:

We’re worse off then we were four years ago.

Yes, we are.  And that’s a direct result of the Bush Administration and Republican Congress.  McCain campaign vigorously for Bush in 2004 and has been a supporter of Bush’s policies in Congress.  Yes, we are worse off than four years ago; it’s McCain’s fault.

Only McCain has taken on Big Tabacco, Drug Companies, fought corruption in both parties, he’ll reform Wall Street, battle Big Oil.

Well that list is full of more lies than I can count.  McCain supported the Medicare “reform” that forced Medicare to not negotiate for drug prices, costing taxpayers and seniors billions of extra dollars to pay for medicine.  As for corruption, John McCain sure knows about that: I’ll refer you to The Keating Five.

He’s the original maverick.  One is ready to lead.

No, he’s been a party line guy who has taken a few different positions here and there to cultivate the maverick image.  He’s no maverick though.  He rubber-stamped Bush policies for eight years and drove this country into ruin.  John McCain is not offering change.  He’s offering more of the same.

This is what Obama needs to keep doing: tie McCain to Bush and our economic problems.

Barack Obama hit back against McCain’s childish, misleading, and incredibly silly ad.

I do notice that he doesn’t seem to have anything very positive to say about himself, does he.  He seems to only be talking about me.  You need to ask John McCain what he’s for, not just what he’s against.

Exactly what he should be saying.  McCain’s so focused on trashing Obama, he isn’t spending any time talking about what his plans for the country are.

McCain’s campaign responds:

“This is a typically superfluous response from Barack Obama. Like most celebrities, he reacts to fair criticism with a mix of fussiness and hysteria,” says McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, before trying to link the attack back to offshore drilling.

That doesn’t even make sense.  But they sure are focused on this “Barack Obama is a celebrity” idea.  And that somehow ties to offshore drilling….  Jesus, the McCain campaign is really pathetic.

And the Obama Campaign releases it’s own ad:

The McCain campaign has this new ad apparently hitting Obama for being too popular.  Because Obama is so much like Britney and Paris that we just can’t let him be president.  I’m not sure how smart it is to remind people that everyone loves Obama.

It also claims that Obama’s opposition to Offshore Drilling is causing increased oil prices and furthering our dependence on foreign oil.  While this is not true at all, it’ll probably convince some people.

The Obama Campaign’s response:

On a day when major news organizations across the country are taking Senator McCain to task for a steady stream of false, negative attacks, his campaign has launched yet another. Or, as some might say, ‘Oops! He did it again.’

Our dependence on foreign oil is one of the greatest challenges we face. In this election the American people have a real choice — between Obama’s plan to provide tax rebates to American families while creating a renewable energy economy in America that frees us from our dependence on foreign oil, and Senator McCain’s plan to continue the same failed energy policies by handing out nearly $4 billion in tax breaks to oil companies while investing almost nothing in the new energy sources that represent our future.