Dashiki,

Thanks for your perspective. Too many Americans think that they have something to biatch about without ever opening their eyes to see how well they are living. McCain has served our country in the past and continues to do so, my hat is off to him regardless of what I think about his political views (agree with some, disagree with others).Isn't that the American way?

Man I REALLY wish McCain was the one the repubs picked to run last time. I would have voted for a rebublican.

I do so wish he would change parties and run for president.

McCain vs. Bradley. Could've lived with either one.

Chalk me up as another one who would have voted for McCain had he gotten the Repub nomination in 2000. He's much more conservative than the type of candidates I would typically vote for, but I think he's an honest and respectable man, which is more than you can say about any of the major parties' presidential candidates over the last several elections.

Yep, McCain, while a hothead, would definitely have gotten my vote.

Control: That, and Rove's dirty trick that he pulled against McCain in South Carolina. After McCain's surprise victory over Chimp-Boy in the New Hampshire's primary, the Bush campaign called a bunch of white Republican voters and, pretending to take an opinion poll, asked those voters what they thought of McCain. Those who expressed a positive view were asked a follow-up question, something like: "Would it affect your view of McCain if you were to learn that he had fathered an African-American child out of wedlock?" Note that it didn't say he had fathered an illegitimate black daughter, but that was certainly the implication. And, of course, while any such implication was complete bullshiat, McCain and his wife have an adopted daughter from Bangladesh, so when the voters saw the pictures of them, those who received the calls assumed that what they had been asked about was true, and told their friends and neighbors. And in Strom Thurmond's home state of South Carolina, allegations about a white guy cavortin' with the colored folk go over like a turd in a punch bowl, so Dubya was able to overtake McCain in the state. And that changed the momentum nationwide in Bush's favor.

So it's probably just as accurate to say that Rove's dirty tricks got Bush the nomination.

Would it be considered torture to make Saddam stand in line at the DMV for eight hours every day for the next 40 years?

McCain is indeed a good guy... but for all of you people babbling about this comment of his being an indication of him being a hero... that's nuts.

Saying something like this is exactly the crap we all hate about politicans... taking the obvious and easy and making a big deal about it.

Who in the American political arena would actually suggest torturing Saddam-- or anyone?

It takes balls to come out and make a real, honest, logical stand on something that may not be politically popular.

While I do agree with McCain's statement there I also agree with people when they say "murder is wrong" and "don't steal." It's not like he is going out on a limb against what everyone else is saying here. And as for the whole him being President thing, Bush is a horrible president. McCain would have made an equally horrible president, just in a slightly different flavor. Gore as well would have made a horrible president. I don't see why anyone likes McCain. He talks about pork barrel spending but targets only a very small amount of the pork that gets passed through congress. And he has even inflated the government greatly with the McCain Feigngold Campaign Finance Reform Act, a set of laws that greatly increase government's power voer citizens' ability to be involved with the election process, limits free speech, and appears to have been designed with the main intention oy insuring that the incumbent remains in office by undermining the challengers ability to campaign, especially third parties.

I only hope he will run again in 2008.