If it’s so awful to pull Paris Hilton into politics, as John McCain recently did in a commercial, then Barack Obama shouldn’t have dragged her into a Senate debate two years ago, when he attacked the repeal of the death tax:
Mr. OBAMA: Madam President, I rise to speak in opposition to the complete repeal of the estate tax.
First of all, [let’s] call this trillion-dollar giveaway what it is–the Paris Hilton tax break.
In these remarks, Obama mentions “the Paris Hilton tax break” four times – check out the Congressional Record, June 8, 2006 (pages S5616 and S5617).
More Obama, from the same speech:
So if the Republicans want to bring up their Paris Hilton tax break to use it as an election issue later, I say go for it. Because I can think of no better statement about where and how we differ in priorities than that.
We will now wait for liberals to explain the political etiquette of Paris Hilton references: Okay when Obama uses them to condemn tax cuts, but not okay when anybody else uses them to criticize Obama.