"His(McCain's) campaign recently injected images of Hilton and fellow tabloid diva Britney Spears into a TV ad that questioned Democrat Barack Obama’s leadership skills in spite of his own celebrity.
Hilton responded this week with a short spot on comedian Will Ferrell’s Web site, www. funnyordie.com, in which she announces her candidacy while sunbathing poolside.
But it was the succinct pragmatism of her energy platform — no, seriously, some are calling it “the Paris Plan” — that drew the notice of policy wonks.
The Paris Plan, verbatim:
Barack wants to focus on new technologies to cut foreign-oil dependency, and McCain wants offshore drilling. Well, why don’t we do a hybrid of both candidates’ ideas?
We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight, while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars.
That way, the offshore drilling carries us until the new technologies kick in, which will then create new jobs and energy independence. Energy crisis solved.
Then she says she is “like, totally ready to lead.”
“Never thought I’d say this,” Connecticut energy consultant Peter Beutel told the Boston Herald, “but Paris Hilton’s plan is sound.”
And Rex Buchanan, an energy spokesman for the Kansas Geological Survey: “Is there something to what she says? Shoot, yes!
“Now, I’m just speaking for myself and not the Geological Survey,” he cautioned. “But we are going to need almost anything you can think of — all energy sources, alternatives and technologies — to get us through. What Paris doesn’t talk about is that the electricity to power those hybrid and electric cars is going to have to come from somewhere, too."
“See what you’ve done? You’ve got me analyzing Paris Hilton’s thought process.”
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