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"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! From Ludacris to Britney and Paris, even celebrities are paying attention to (or being brought into) the race. That, plus a little Clinton news, after the jump.McCain&amp;#x27;s Got A Brand New Ad John McCain has a new anti-Obama advertisement out that compares Barack Obama&amp;#x27;s international support to that of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. It also suggests that Obama&amp;#x27;s objections to offshore drilling and his support for taxing electricity generation are either celebrity values or internationalist values&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;#x27;s hard to tell&amp;amp;#8212;but either way, that&amp;#x27;s apparently bad and somehow related to Germany and Britney Spears. Britney has declined to comment Sadly, Paris probably won&amp;#x27;t. Conservatives Concerned Republicans are starting to worry about McCain, and for good reason. From his Britney ad to his disingenuous attacks about Obama not visiting military hospitals in Germany, they&amp;#x27;re worried that his campaign is wasting their time on unfocused attacks and not focusing on winning the election. Also, they want to know how he got Paris Hilton&amp;#x27;s phone number. Kidding. McCain&amp;#x27;s Coattails First George Bush and now John McCain? Some Republican incumbents are so concerned about negative press&amp;amp;#8212;and so worried about their chanced getting reelected this year&amp;amp;#8212;that they&amp;#x27;re considering skipping the Republican Convention, and they kind of don&amp;#x27;t want to be seen with John McCain. Poor guy, he&amp;#x27;s not even had 7 years in office to get that unpopular. Hillary Supporters Shutting Down Vote Both, a group dedicated to promoting an Obama-Clinton ticket, is closing its doors this week. The founders are convinced that Obama won&amp;#x27;t pick Clinton for his VP, and they&amp;#x27;ve decided it&amp;#x27;s more important to support the Democratic candidate than push for Clinton any more. That&amp;#x27;s two Cintonistas down, so Obama&amp;#x27;s only got a few hundred thousand to go. Ludacris&amp;#x27;s Rap Ludacris is a big Obama supporter&amp;amp;#8212;so big, in fact, that he decided to rap about it. Unfortunately for the Obama people, he called Hillary an &amp;quot;irrelevant b****&amp;quot; in the song, upsetting already-upset former Hillary supporters. Obama has denounced the language, but it&amp;#x27;s not really helping anyone. Obama should probably just be thankful that Ludacris didn&amp;#x27;t call her a &amp;quot;ho.&amp;quot; What do you think of the Ludacris rap? Are your unity ticket dreams well and truly dead? And do you get the Obama-Britney connection? &amp;amp;#8212;Megan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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