Will paint White House pink in joking (?) media announcement

By Jeffrey Jolson

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 8/6/08 — You think in the news business, you’ve seen it all, but never have we seen a presidential candidate strip to a bikini to announce her run for the leader of the free world.

Yet Paris was being typically Paris, and responding to John McCain’s use of her in his most recent political TV ad. She was rumored to be considering a lawsuit against him, but responded in an apparently whimsical way in an Internet commercial.

Yet she spoke of a real political agenda to the media.

The millionaire jumped into the U.S. election campaign, calling Republican candidate McCain a “Wrinkly white-haired guy” and offering her own energy policy.

Hilton, dressed in a leopard print swim suit and gold pumps, jokingly declared her own candidacy in a video posted on the website Funny or Die, saying: “I want America to know that I’m, like, totally ready to lead.”

She was responding to a television ad by McCain, 71, that used her image to attack Democratic rival Barack Obama.

She essentially said his attack on her had put her in the race.

She told the press “We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars.”

Hilton offered to paint the White House pink and threw down the gauntlet to McCain and Obama.

“I’ll see you at the debates, bitches,” she said, according to Reuters.

She has no political party or background, but it looks like the campaign just got a little more colorful, though sillier. Could you imagine her becoming POTUS? Look at your history books, there have been some strange winners, just not many in leopard-skin bikinis.