Paris Hilton for McCain, Scarlett Johansson for Obama

In the pink corner, it's Paris Hilton issuing tart rebuttal to John McCain's election campaign ad. In the purple corner, it's Scarlett Johansson claiming embarrassment over Barack Obama emails.

Paris Hilton responded to a recent ad by presidential hopeful John McCain that compared the heiress to rival Barack Obama (while Hillary Clinton was compared to Paris Hilton's party friend, Britney Spears). The ad suggests that Obama is just a celebrity candidate unready to lead the nation.

On a spoof in a comedy Web site Funny or Die, Paris Hilton responded by declaring, “Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity, too. Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy. I'm just hot. But then that wrinkly, white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude... I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead.”

For her part, 23-year old actress Scarlett Johansson admitted to be embarrassed by the media coverage of her so-called "e-mail relationship" with Barack Obama.

The actress admitted to be trading e-mails with the former senator during a magazine interview last June. Before the “email relationship” issue went out-of control, Scarlett Johansson explained, "I was merely trying to express my delight at Obama's commitment to his campaign in every aspect and his interest and his support (in) his surrogates and his staff and his fellows, and how wonderful and refreshing that is. And it was manipulated into such an unfortunate media frenzy of kind of a nonstory." For his part, Obama told reporters that Johansson doesn't have his personal e-mail address. It was his assistant who forwarded one message from Johansson to which he replied.

So there it goes, the high-profiled issues between celebrities and presidential hopefuls, which only teach us one thing: politicians are always linked with celebrities, making their names more popular to the voting public. Period.