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The Celebrity Factor
Political Insider — Today, Sen. John McCain's campaign is comparing Sen. Barack Obama to celebrities like Britney Spears in both an attack television ad and a blistering campaign memo. However, earlier this week the inventor of today's celebrity journalism, Bonnie Fuller, argued that Obama's campaign was using a "clear and clever presidential marketing strategy" based on the senator's celebrity status. So, is being a celebrity helpful or hurtful to a presidential campaign?

Obama: McCain’s message is that I don’t “look like the other presidents on the currency”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... happy with them and so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me,” Obama continued, repeating an attack from earlier in the day. “What they’re saying is ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, he’s a got a funny name .’” Mind you, this comes on a day when not only does conventional wisdom have it that the GOP is running the same campaign they ran ...

Ugly Stuff
The Democratic Daily — ... Marc Ambinder says “it’s worth noting this stuff has worked in the past; theoretically, it pigeonholes Obama as a northern liberal with effete tastes.” ...

McCain website scrubbed of 'celebrity' citation
Daily Kos — Blogger Rodger Payne has discovered John McCain hoist by his own petard. Turns out that until this month John McCain's presidential website had a post with laudatory excerpts from a much longer March 1, 2007 AP report about McCain's announcement on the David Letterman Show that he's running for president. The McCain website excerpt included this statement: A political celebrity, McCain is considered a top contender for the nomination. The article at McCain's website was scrubbed sometime after ...