"Oh, yeah. Y'know, I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised for me to have the guts to do that, because the fact is that the question didn't come up in that fashion. So, y'know, and I think he's probably ensured that it will come up this time. And, look Mark, it's not that I give a damn about some old washed-up terrorist..."

"Well, sir, with your help and the people in this room, we will find out. Just as Senator Clinton said in the primary that we should find out about this association.... We need to know the full extent of the relationship because of whether Senator Obama is telling the truth to the American people or not. That's the question."

"When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied"

"Obama's teachers": Tony Rezko, William Ayers, William Dale. The RNC reported to the Federal Election Commission today that they plunked down around $5 million for TV ads. While we can't be sure it's all funding this spot, there may be some serious money behind this buy.

"Of course, I'd be talking about it. This is totally extraordinary. I'd even tie it up to the economy. That's the reason he believes... in redistribution of wealth."

In an interview with Bill Kristol, Palin called Obama's character into question for listening to Rev. Wright, even though McCain previously rebuked such attacks.

"This is not a man who sees America as you and I do -- as the greatest force for good in the world. This is someone who sees America as "imperfect enough" to work with a former domestic terrorist who targeted his own country."

Nothing for courting Miami Cubans like linking your opponent to Latin American Marxism

From camp McCain: "Today, many are dead and Georgia is in crisis, yet the Obama campaign has offered nothing more than cheap and petty political attacks that are echoed only by the Kremlin. The reaction of the Obama campaign to this crisis, so at odds with our democratic allies and yet so bizarrely in sync with Moscow, doesn't merely raise questions about Senator Obama's judgment--it answers them."

"It shall be known that in 2008 the world will be blessed. They will call him... the One"

"Perhaps he and Senator Obama can finally have that heart to heart."

For a celeb like Obama, life must be "Fabulosa"

Maybe. Or maybe Obama's applause has gone to McCain's head.

Check out the Obama camp's response to this one: "This ad is a lie, and it's part of the old, tired politics of a party in Washington that has run out of ideas and run out of steam."

Take two on celeb ads, sans Britney and Paris.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers: "We understand it might be beneath a worldwide celebrity of Barack Obama's magnitude to appear at town hall meetings alongside John McCain and directly answer questions from the American people, but we hope he'll reconsider."

Lieberman: "To some extent the appearance of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears -- people complain about it -- they should just relax and enjoy it," he said.

Rick Davis: What we decided to do was find the top three international celebrities in the world. And from our estimations, Britney and Paris came in second and third.

For a politician with Wedding Crashers on his resume, among 47 other hits on the Internet Movie Data Base (tally not counting repeat appearances on The Daily Show and SNL), it's quite a claim.

Obama's losing his celeb glow, so he jealously struck out at Sarah Palin and "dismissed her as good-looking." How disrespectful. And yet... familiar. (Their words.)

Grrr! Arrgh! Hoooowl! Camp Obama is like a pack of wolves, hunting Palin.

Obama: Some of you may have -- I'm assuming you guys have heard this, watching the news. I'm talking about John McCain's economic politics, I say, "This is more of the same, you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig." And suddenly they say, "Oh, you must be talking about the governor of Alaska." ...I don't care what they say about me, but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swift-boat politics. Enough is enough.

Not true.

From Camp McCain: You know you may just be a global celebrity when you get this headline in Reuters, "Obama Takes Shirt Off Again, Goes Body Surfing In Hawaii."

"We know he doesn't have much experience, and isn't ready to lead, but that doesn't mean he isn't dreamy."