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Oh, yeah -- it was that early anti-Obama ad run by the McCain campaign: "He's the biggest celebrity in the world!" You could take the final sentence in this item ("In other words, how about somebody, anybody, who has something to offer besides celebrity and good intentions...") and quite easily transpose it into that pathetic McCain ad.
Get a clue, Mark -- people are (and always will be) inspired by candidates for a variety of reasons, not all of which will be purely logical or intellectual. And I don't recall lots of bleating about Caroline Kennedy's qualifications to act as co-chair of Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee.
