8.1.2008 11:19 AM

Obama Drinks Organic Tea

The Senator's Beverage Preference Gives McCain Camp Some Ammo - No, Really

By Annie Bell Muzaurieta

You'd think McCain's camp would be busy worrying about offshore oil drilling or the facial growth he had removed at the Mayo Clinic. But Team McCain couldn't pass up the opportunity to slam Barack Obama for drinking organic tea.

Are you kidding me?

As Ecorazzi asked: Does anyone smell desperation in the air?

The Times Online reports McCain's team accused Obama yesterday of playing the race card. Meanwhile, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate is running ads portraying Obama as a vapid celebrity comparable to Britney Spears. (Harvard Law School, anyone?)

The article says that in a memo after the commercial, Rick Davis, Mr McCain’s campaign manager, wrote: “Only celebrities like Barack Obama…demand bottles of an organic brew - Black Forest Berry Honest Tea."

At a rally yesterday, Obama responded, “I do have to ask my opponent - is that the best you can come up with? Is that what is worthy of the American people?"

Ecorazzi wonders if McCain would like to comment on his $520 Italian leather loafers.

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