In my opinion the media is nothing more than another corporate money making machine that lost the meaning of the word 'objectivity' many decades ago.

It is particularly apt of you to say that in light of this:

So how did they taste?

Objectivity prohibits a good reporter from passing judgement, but let’s put it this way: everyone wants to come back.

Yes; babbling incompetence at its good, old fashioned, all american finest.

Very true. All three of them are courting their religious faith as a positive thing and the public is eating it up. I cannot understand why people find faith to be an indicator of morality or even a desirable quality. I would rather see leaders making decisions by using their heads, not their knees.

Random guy,

That is a valid point. I haven't looked at that issue and I was referring specifically to the Vietnam POW when I referenced honor. I am 100% against torture, although even Ebon has justified it in some circumstances.

Back to the media being bribed. In my opinion the media is nothing more than another corporate money making machine that lost the meaning of the word 'objectivity' many decades ago.

And as far as compromising his honor, this is a man who two years ago argued against the Military Commission Act because he said it would legalize torture in America. After he gave an impassioned speech condemning the Act, what did he do? He voted for it anyway, because the GOP said to.

I respected McCain in 2000, but since then hes done nothing but become another tool of the corrupt, incompetent, GOP establishment. I don't like Clinton, I don't want her to be president (I'd prefer Obama), but I'd vote for her just to get four years of non-right wing judge appointments, and competent government staffing. I want to know that my president doesn't think evolution is debatable when staffing the DoE. I don't want people like John Hagee anywhere near the white house. At the very least I can get that out of Clinton.

Newspapers being tools of political ambition is nothing new; I think the problem lies in media trusts. No one person or organization should have control of multiple media outlets, especially if that's all that is available in a certain area. I recently read Michael P. Malone's The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906, which describes how men like Marcus Daly and William Clark bought up multiple newspapers in Butte, Montana to wage political warfare on one another. This left little room for objective opinion, especially in an area as isolated as Montana.

Couple this with a medium such as television, which requires very little critical thought or action on behalf of the viewer (if any at all) and you have a recipe for tyranny.

I, too, will be voting for McCain. First, I tend toward the conservative myself. But as much as anything, I want to see conservatism and the Republican party ripped from the grip of Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christianity. I'm afraid that if Obama or Clinton gets in there will be a resurgence of far, far right conservatism in the Republican party.

"That's right, Christopher (though I hope you were kidding about "becken call")."\

Nope - that's no joke: I really see most of the media as being agents that serve the interests of other parties.

I don't have a problem with people having social events and blowing off steam, I just have a problem with the entire political process of the US. I guess I am bitter that I voted for Gore who got the majority of the vote and still lost due to the Judiciary Branch taking over the 'democratic process'.

I mean seriously, if the Democrats cannot even handle their primary properly (case/point--- Florida/Michigan delegate fiasco) then how do you expect them to handle other aspects of government.

McCain is getting my vote, if I even bother to vote, because of his service to the Country while a Captain in the USN and a POW who didn't compromise his honor. The rest of the qualifications are immaterial in my opinion because each of the 3 Candidates are currently Senators and therefore are all responsible for the Nation's current economic and political crisis. That is why I didn't summarily dismiss Ellen Johnson's recommendation for AA to not vote at all---it is just an illusion anyway.