World champ Giants to open NFL season vs John McCain
But since this is a political blog we don't really care about sports, except as a metaphor.
The real impact of the National Football League's newly announced decision to launch the 2008 season on Thursday night, Sept. 4 is....
That's the same night as the climax of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul when Sen. John McCain is to be the highlight with his crucial acceptance speech that traditionally sets the tone for a candidate's campaign before a national audience.
Let's see, who'd win that TV ratings scrimmage, a New York team playing the very first game of a fresh NFL football season or the second major political acceptance speech on national TV in a week?
Plus we'd miss all the colorful balloons falling from the convention center ceiling on cue.
As a reluctant concession to the process of picking the nation's next commander in chief and the leader of the free world except on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights and sometimes Thursday nights too, the league decided to start the Giants-Redskins game 90 minutes early.
But there better not be overtime or McCain'll get stomped on Sept. 4 instead of on Nov. 4.
--Andrew Malcolm
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Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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Hey Andrew...All human endeavours, including sports are
political.And if one's prefered candidate scores a piss-poor 37 in a bowling game, then one must reconsider the
wisdom of his choice ,wich has led me to dump that bum
from Chicago and throw all my weight behind that classy
and universaly respected lady from New York state. In all
honesty though, I must admit that governor Judas's most
recent treachery was the end of the begining of my less
than firm support for that less than stellar bowler going
after the ¨we need to pay more taxes to the government
¨vote.
Posted by: Put that in your pipe and smoke it ! | April 01, 2008 at 03:40 PM
Senator MCCain will overcome the conflicting ëxigences¨
of the mundane calendar.The salvation of western civilization depends on it and current astrological configurations are unanimous in predicting sen. Obama's
major ¨déconfiture¨¨ in november.Praise the lord and
hallelujah!
Posted by: Ruprecht....Mâle extraordinaire | April 01, 2008 at 06:51 PM