voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/29/2008
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By Michael D. Shear HERSHEY, Pa. -- Sen. John McCain made a direct appeal to baseball lovers Tuesday morning while mocking his rival's decision to buy 30 minutes of television time Wednesday night for an address to the nation. "No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I'm ...
weeklystandard.com - 10/30/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
Sitting through the Very Special Episode of Obama
for President tonight felt awfully familiar. It's like one...
of those required assemblies from middle school: hectoring, tedious, and transparently silly. But it did have one unexpected effect on me. ...
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And You'll Accomplish This...How?
Hoffmania! —
... The latest in McCain's "No (fill in the blank) when I'm president!" rants. Sen. John McCain made a direct appeal to baseball lovers Tuesday
morning while mocking his rival's decision to buy 30 minutes of
television time Wednesday night for an address to the nation.
"No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I'm
president," he said to the approval of a crowd of thousands at a
stadium here. The Fox television network agreed with a request by Major League
Baseball to move the start of Game 6 of the series by 15 minutes to ...
A Swing and a Miss
Daily Kos —
... Upset that Barack Obama will have thirty minutes of prime time television, including the lead-in to the World Series, John McCain tried to mock Obama today for having the highly valuable pre-game ad buy: ...
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