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Spain Can Kiss McCain's Ass

4 durable postsStarted 2008-09-18Latest 2008-09-19
#59717Post 1 of 4

Maybe.

Giving McCain the benefit of the doubt, it's possible he misheard or misunderstood the question and he certainly sounded a bit confused when answering whether or not he would be willing to meet with Jose Luis Zapatero, Spain's Prime Minister. His rambling about Latin America would suggest that he didn't understand what was being asked of him when he declined to agree to such a meeting.

Edit: Here's the clip -- jump to about 2:58:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WItI9It_Swc[/YOUTUBE]

It's tougher to give him a pass, however, when his foreign policy advisor confirms that that is exactly what McCain meant to do:

[QUOTE][URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/mccain-meant-to-reject-sp_n_127449.html"]"The questioner asked several times about Senator McCain's willingness to meet Zapatero (and id'd him in the question so there is no doubt Senator McCain knew exactly to whom the question referred). Senator McCain refused to commit to a White House meeting with President Zapatero in this interview," the Senator's foreign policy adviser Randy Sheunemann told the Washington Post.[/URL][/QUOTE]

OK, in light of this confirmation of his comment, I'm obliged to wonder if foreign policy deity McCain is aware that Spain is actually in Europe, and that we don't refer to "Latin America" as "Spain" on account of them speaking Spanish there. More troubling, though, I'm further obliged to wonder why the hell he wouldn't just say, "Of course." I mean, it's SPAIN ffs -- a fellow member of NATO and an ally -- what is the downside of meeting with Zapatero?

WTF?

#1085235Post 2 of 4

Re: Spain Can Kiss McCain's Ass

its kind of weird cuz he practically evaded the question, with his "and by the way, President Calderon is..........."

Spain is way to close to France, and you all know how we americans feel about those damn frech!!

#1085247Post 3 of 4

Re: Spain Can Kiss McCain's Ass

The scariest thing about that is he sounds so OLD!!!!!!!!! and spiderwoman is waiting in the wings :lol:

#1085334Post 4 of 4

Re: Spain Can Kiss McCain's Ass

^ yeah, he's tired. not gonna make it!

i want to move to spain, so much cooler than france

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