McCain Paris/Britney/Barack Ad Gets Attention

The tension between the campaigns was escalated by a new McCain attack ad released earlier this week that mocked Obama as a celebrity like Britney Spears and Axelrod lashed out at McCain for airing the ad, saying it was “insulting… to the American people.”

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, however, said he was delighted with the “celebrity” commercial.

“I think the ad is a great ad. I think it’s getting a lot of attention which was what it was designed to do,” Davis said on “Good Morning America.”

He called the furor over the ad “much ado about nothing. Everybody’s talking about it and we’re having a great time with it.”

But Davis talked tough when it came to any suggestion that McCain employed a racist tactic.

“I will not allow anyone in this campaign to attack John McCain on race. It’s never happened before, and it never will again,” Davis said.

The Obama campaign made clear Thursday that they did not believe McCain was using Obama’s race, but accused the Republicans of “low road politics.”

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