In the doldrums of August, with John McCain dominating the current news cycle while Barack Obama wraps up his vacation in Hawaii, both campaigns have been stepping up their attack ads.

McCain’s most recent dumps the Paris Hilton references, but keeps alive his campaign’s “mere celebrity” rap on Obama in his new “Taxman” ad:

Obama’s ad, “Fix the Economy,” uses McCain’s own words against him, pairing his recent sunny assessments of the economy with fear- and despair-filled words of voters:

On an unrelated note, both candidates will stage their first joint appearance of the campaign on Saturday when they travel to California for an appearance at the Rev. Rick Warren’s Saddleback megachurch. Matthew 25, a pro-Obama Christian group that hopes to enlist religious voters for the Democratic candidate, will air an ad called “Families” during the televised confab:

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