Now that John McCain has ever so slyly maneuvered Paris Hilton into the Presidential race to drain feminist votes from Barack Obama, we can only hope her stunning announcement video – delivered pool side in a stylin’ leopard print swimsuit – will elevate the debate.

It certainly cannot get much sillier. Who knew when the McCain campaign made that commercial featuring Barack Obama, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, Obama would turn out to be the more vacuous celebrity?

Britney has seemingly declined public service in favor of making a lesbian killer stripper movie with Quentin Tarantino. But Paris struck immediately with her energy policy statement: “We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars….Energy crisis solved, I’ll see you at the debates…”

The McCain campaign was quick to commend her for supporting drilling, putting Obama in the same lunch meat sandwich that McCain and Mrs. Clinton used, reasonably effectively back during the primaries.

It must be remembered that Obama’s first response to $4.00 a gallon gasoline was to propose no solution at all but merely to remark on the disruption of the abrupt rise to that point. Back then, he opposed just about everything except some weird concept of a “green economy” based on “green jobs” etcetera. He hadn’t even thought about buying votes with oil company money at $1000 a pop.

Back then, though, 70% of the people weren’t getting all grumpy and unruly over energy policy.

Only when electoral handwriting was covering the wall did Obama come forth with his plan that Americans should stop whining about more production of American energy resources and just properly inflate our tires. In the beginning, we thought that was just some Obama throwaway line, used to dodge the hard issue. But the guy seems serious and keeps on harping on it.

It is far too boring to no good end to elucidate the specific flaws in Obama’s energy policy brainstorm, ever so reminiscent of President Jimmy Carter’s turn-out-the-lights absurdity.

Let’s accept that it is a good idea to keep our tires properly inflated, as most Americans do, for numerous reasons. But that, friends, is a matter of individual conservation. It is not a national government energy policy, which impacts far more than how you drive and care for your vehicle of choice or necessity, far more than temporal energy prices, whatever they are.

Whatever Obama says about energy policy, remember this. He is joined at the political hips to Nancy Pelosi, who will allow no vote on oil drilling in the House, and Harry Reid, who believes that “oil makes us sick.” That is the troika who will rule the federal government if Obama is elected. Obama is joined by philosophy and political necessity to every radical environmental group that can be named – those that have prevented reasonable national energy policies for decades.

Are John McCain’s currently enunciated energy positions better than Obama’s? Yes, but he’s not yet near where he should be either. Arguing to drill offshore but not in a tiny desolate sliver of ANWR, for example, is both strange and incongruent.

A true national energy policy is that which encourages and allows development of each and every form of U.S. energy production that is feasible, cost effective and safe in the least amount of time. National security and national economic sustenance are far more important than any other factors.

Is conservation an element of a reasonable policy? Of course it is. Should legitimate environmental concerns be factored in? Of course they should. But the former won’t get us near the end zone and the latter should not be used as a blunderbuss to stop even a first down.

In her announcement video, Paris Hilton said, “I want America to know I’m, like, totally ready to lead.” How’s that different from what the major candidates are saying, with only marginally more substance?