So McCain is trying to compare Obama to a celebrity? The Smirking Chimp brings up what everyone seems to be ignoring:

Oh really? Where was John McCain to decry celebrity status when Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California as a Republican? Where was John McCain when pop icon Sonny Bono, and actors Noble Willingham, Jerry Doyle, and Fred Grandy all ran for Congress as Republicans? Where was John McCain when Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson addressed the Republican National Convention? Where was John McCain to decry celebrity when former actor and Republican idol Ronald Reagan was elected to the Presidency not once but twice? I guess celebrity status is only bad when attached to a liberal or a Democrat but all fine and dandy when the celebrity in question is a Republican. John McCain isn’t a packaged celebrity of course, he’s a packaged war hero. There’s a difference. Right?

Yup – when the Republicans hear of a celebrity running for office they get all giddy with excitement. Just look at the recent rise and fall of Fred Thompson. These people suffer a bad case of “star struck politics”, yet they use it as an attack? That’s interesting…

Andrew Sullivan also reminds us that McCain had a made for TV movie based on his time as a P.O.W.