He made it himself yesterday, when he criticized Barack Obama’s purchase of television time to run a half-hour infomercial.

“It used to be that only rain or some other act of God could delay the World Series, but I guess the network execs figured an Obama infomercial was close enough.”

McCain has used this line or a variation repeatedly.

“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.

Set aside the fact that the people at Fox swear the Series wasn’t delayed because of Obama’s ad buy. Never mind that McCain’s convention speech forced the NFL to change the starting time of its opening game.

Let’s just put this in perspective. We’re a country fighting two wars, and probably losing one of them. We’ve been slammed with the worst economic crisis since the Depression. We have a ten trillion dollar national debt. Ninety percent of the public thinks the country is headed in the wrong direction. Et cetera.

And John McCain thinks that starting the World Series on time is more important than the race for the presidency?

If McCain doesn’t think that the presidential election is more important than the starting time of a baseball game, why on earth should anyone vote for him for president?