Who's the Celebrity Now?

Isn't it ironic that just a few weeks ago, the McCain camp was making commercials about how Obama was a "celebrity?" 

That was the basis for McCain's entire campaign. Plenty of people bought it. 

Now it turns out, McCain was just jealous. 

The republicans needed a charisma injection, as McCain put it on Face the Nation. Now it's the Palin-McCain ticket. 

I don't think we'll be seeing any commercials about Obama's celebrity status. 

McCain's New Ad Lies

He uses visual lies and a big fat lie that Obama voted to raise taxes on the middle class. That has been fact checked here. 

Going forward, Obama has repeated over and over, unless you earn more than $250,000, your taxes are not going up. Watch him say it, (mighty forcefully) here.
Here's a link to a side by side comparison of McCain's and Obama's tax plan. NYT: 

Visually, this is another intriguing spot. One that features Mr. Obama’s visage and his crowds more than Mr. McCain’s. One that uses some far left magazine covers to paint Mr. Obama as an extremist.

Interspersed are images of presumably real people, old and young, as the commercial turns to talk about family and the elderly and what tax increases would do to them and their budgets.

FactCheck.org has already debunked this claim that Mr. Obama’s vote on a budget resolution would have raised taxes on a family making a rather low income. But the McCain campaign keeps repeating this.

FactCheck says in an update: “We reiterate: McCain’s $32,000 figure is phony.” Or on $42,000. “The resolution does not contain a specific provision to raise tax rates, but rather assumes that most of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts expire as scheduled in 2011,” it said.