Apparently some liberal intelligentsia Obama supporter somewhere or other commented that McCain’s “Britney Spears — Paris Hilton — Barack Obama” packed multiple punches by subliminally suggesting race with the blonde woman — black man side by side, and then aslo conjured up Adolf Hitler with “Triumph of the Will” style images of Obama in Germany.

Amusing conjecture, that.  Female celebrities tend to be blondes.  And there’s a reason that Leni Riefenstahl’s camera techniques were so compelling — which brings us to that problem with the campaign ad, suggested by someone else.  The ad fails the “Volume off” test which has it that you can judge an ad by how the ad spot looks if there is no volume… and what you have here is gloriful footage of Barack Obama.

My problem with the ad is the suggestion that Paris Hilton and Britney Spears might be the biggest female celebrities on the planet.  Even in terms of the Tabloid Celebrities they have been as of late — Paris always a “Tabloid Celebrity” and famous for being famous and a person I’ve always been insulted I know the name and Spears being one sometime after no one could care about her stage performances — I think we may be in a between time where their star has died out.  As the Los Angeles Police chief put it,

“If you notice, since Britney [Spears] started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris [Hilton] is out of town not bothering anybody anymore — thank God — and evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don’t seem to have much of an issue.”

But the problem with the ad is that Obama can pack a crowd and those two other people mentioned cannot — as far back as 2003 the Rose Garden had to cut off large numbers of seats to fill the stadium for a Britney Spears concert, a problem which would not greet Obama.  (Yes, further problem is that much of McCain’s “Maverick” appeal he’s crafted over this past decade has been based off of celebrityhood ventures, but forget that for a moment.)

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