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Obama gave a point-by-point rebuttal

It was another day of Paris, Britney and energy this morning, as Obama gave a point-by-point rebuttal to a new ad from his rival, and he and a top surrogate quipped about the celebutantes, during a town hall in this red state the Democrat hopes to turn blue.

McCain began running a television ad yesterday that referred to him as the "original maverick." The ad said Washington was “broken,” the country was “worse off” now than four years ago and that the Arizona senator would reform Wall Street and battle Big Oil.

Obama joked that it had taken McCain 26 years in Washington to figure out that the system was broken and argued that contradicted McCain's earlier assertions that America had made "great progress economically" over the past eight years. He said McCain had boasted about voting with George Bush 90% of the time, which showed he was no maverick.