The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On McCain

This showed up yesterday and I waited till there was a version I could post. McCain did an interview with Radio Caracol Miami on Wednesday aimed primarily at the Hispanic community.

The interview runs through McCain's views on Latin American issues. But then they get to Spain (at about 2:50 in). He places Spain in the Western Hemisphere.



As TPM puts it:

At first it sounds like McCain is taking a hard neocon line against Prime Minister Zapatero, but as the interviewer continues to press the point, it becomes pretty obvious that McCain has no idea who she's talking about.

His broad, generic answer is clearly meant to cover Latin American leaders generally, known and unknown -- sort of a blanket "we'll stand up to tinpot dictators" -- even if they happen to be NATO prime ministers.

And we thought Palin had a few problems with international affairs.

UPDATE:

McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Sheunemann said McCain's answer was intentional.

"In this week's interview, Senator McCain did not rule in or rule out a White House meeting with President Zapatero, a NATO ally," he said in an e-mail. "If elected, he will meet with a wide range of allies in a wide variety of venues but is not going to spell out scheduling and meeting location specifics in advance. He also is not going to make reckless promises to meet America's adversaries. It's called keeping your options open, unlike Senator Obama, who has publicly committed to meeting some of the world's worst dictators unconditionally in his first year in office."

When the McCain campaign screws up they really screw up:
Zapatero is not the President of Spain; he's the Prime Minister.
Good God!