From today's NYT:

The McCain campaign has seized on the advertisement as excessive, with Mr. McCain pointing to reports that Mr. Obama’s infomercial would bump back the World Series on Fox by 15 minutes. “No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I’m president,” he said, in Hershey, Pa.

(Fox executives have said that they, and not the Obama campaign, had initially asked Major League Baseball to move the start of Wednesday’s game to 8:35 p.m. from 8:20, to make way for his infomercial. But as it turns out, such a delay was not necessary anyway; none of the World Series games has started before 8:30, and two started after 8:35.)


Well, thank goodness for that.  I once did a report on every promise made by a governor in a series of speeches to see what the objective view would be of how many promises / pledges were kept.  I wonder how this one will be enforced if McCain wins.  Note that it applies only to the World Series, so you will be able to buy an infomercial to delay the Stanley Cup or the National Spelling Bee, should you wish.

Since the Executive branch does not, to my knowledge, have direct control over the advertising and scheduling departments of broadcast networks, I presume he will have the new session of Congress pass the "Infomercial Baseball World Series Event Non Delay Act of 2009".

Then, and only then, he'll deal with a worldwide recession, multiple rogue nuclear threats, two outstanding wars, a lack of investment in our national infrastructure and educational systems, Medicare and Social Security reform, China and Russia hegemony (my new favorite issue), and a rise in kidney stones in young children.  Children: A warning from personal experience, they really really hurt.