It's becoming plain that corporate America is in McCains corner. Or it feels like that to me anyway. It was all but impossible not to flip on CNN or FOX or MSNBC this weekend without seeing McCain or Palin.

I am critical of the general state of ownership and control of major media outlets because that ownership influences independence of reportage. The political and business relationships of the giant corporations that own our airwaves and cable outlets I think ends with at least somewhat state sponsored control of what we see and hear. It can be argued that Bush has done things that once upon a time would have been more critically reported and in effect challenged on the national stage. That this hasn't occurred is in part connected to what many people view as gross abuses of power by the Bush administration. It is also apparent that this dovetails with the cozy relationships held by corporate America with the congress.

Unless you have lived long enough and have watched this for 30 or 40 years it isn't likely you will have noticed how all of this has transformed the nation so dramatically. We once had what could only be called an adversarial relationship between government and business and government and the media. I've no doubt that was a healthy condition for our democracy. To the extent this has changed has a direct bearing on the health of our democracy.

I have serious reservations of attributing to corporations those same aspects of freedom and citizenship that belong to individual citizens. Corporations aren't citizens and have an entirely different reason for being. The logical proof of that statement rests in an examination of civil litigation that typically has corporations in contest against citizens. An objective examination of such litigation reveals that the interests and goals of corporations and citizens are not the same. This specifies that they are very different in their core aspects of nationalism and exposes the extent to which they are illogically attributed a common notion of citizenship. It is my view that this attribution of citizenship is an unfounded and contrived legal fallacy. This is more true than ever before when we consider the aspect of very large corporation being termed as multi-nationals. The very conduct of corporations in this day and age has purely to do with profit and is completely bereft of any notion of patriotism. You cannot ignore those actions of corporations that harm Americans without gaining an insight into this marked difference and knowing full well that corporations should not be accorded a status similar to that of citizens. You truly have to close your eyes and stop thinking in order to not see the difference.