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Reaching into Ross Perot's playbook, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour primetime television spot from CBS and is currently negotiating with other networks to purchase the same time slot. Obama will air an election infomercial during the time slot, scheduled for Wednesday, October 29. Officials at CBS said, "We will, of course, make an equivalent opportunity available to Senator McCain and other legally qualified candidates upon request." Perot's spot in '92 drew in 16.5 million viewers. As long as Barack brings the pie charts and doesn't go up against America's Next Top Model, we're guessing he'll do okay, too.

Since about 90 percent of the greater Chicagoland gets its news from, or at least comes into contact with, some form of Tribune media every day, we'll just assume you've heard that it put itself on the auctioning block.

We absolutely love it when crazy rich people run for president for no other reason than they are rich and crazy. If you're like us and you're sick and tired of regular rich people running for prez, then you'll be happy to hear we have a new crazy dude running for president right here in Chicago! It's not really whether Gold Coast millionaire John H. Cox would be a great candidate that makes this a...