Apparently John McCain missed the Barack Obama teflon memo. The latest, and now controversial, ad out of the McCain camp includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, that maybe are supposed to suggest...we're not sure, that Barack doesn't wear underwear? That he's a bad parent, who dates his bodyguards? Maybe if the whole thing wasn't so laughable we'd be offended (we mean, seriously, Britney and Paris? they don't exactly inspire adulation). Some people are suggesting that the ad is racist because, in the words of Josh Marshall, it is "pushing the caricature of Obama as a uppity young black man whose presumptuousness is displayed not only in taking on airs above his station but also in a taste for young white women." Many people are noting it was just this sort of imaging that the GOP used against Harold Ford Jr. back in 2006.

McCain says the interpretation is ridiculous. Obama responded with his own video saying McCain is taking the low road. Truthfully, we think it's just one more instance of McCain demonstrating he actually has no idea whatsoever about anything that could remotely be called current. Watch both videos for yourself after the jump.