Tonight a thirty-minute Obama infomercial will be aired, an infomercial that the McCain campaign has criticized for pushing the World Series back fifteen minutes on Fox. Today, McCain let America know that he would never allow for such televised sports travesties, saying, “No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I’m president.”

Now that McCain has used the old World Series delay argument, though, how is he going to address the Obama campaign’s new television strike, a commercial which snickers at McCain and Sarah Palin as economic dunces?

The commercial begins with a photo of McCain looking sheepish and quoted material from the republican on the economy:

“I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.” Wall Street Journal 11/26/05

“The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.” Boston Globe Political Intelligence 12/18/07

“I might have to rely on a Vice President that I select for expertise on economic issues.” GOP Debate 11/28/07

After the quote in which McCain admitted that he might depend on a VP with economic expertise, the words “His Choice?” appear on screen and the camera pans to footage of Sarah Palin— winking.

My momma always told me, never trust the economics of a lady that winks. She might be blinking in code to traders. Or hiding derivatives in her eyelashes.

Seriously though, the Obama campaign might’ve done better with this one. After the fair and effective regurgitation of McCain’s blunders as spoken by the man himself, why not provide some choice Palin gems? The woman is a walking verbal slip-up, and her words would probably best demonstrate her utter incompetence, such as when she mangled syntax and reason in a statement about the economics to Katie Couric:

“That’s why I say, I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in, where it is the taxpayers looking to bailout. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—oh, it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So, healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we have—we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.”

And when it comes to idiot statements, doggone it, that's good.