Does John McCain Know Where Spain Is?

1:38 am EST September 18th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 13 Comments

So, an interviewer asks John McCain about José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the prime minister of Spain. Bizarrely, Mccain starts talking about Latin America.

I was not the biggest fan of geography in middle school, but I do remember this. Spain is in Europe (Spain is, in fact, a member of the European Union). Not Latin America.

Conservatives have been pretty proud of actual and feigned ignorance… but the President of the United States should really f*****g know where Spain is.

>> John McCain just forget where Spain was. Seriously, not kidding.

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13 Responses to “Does John McCain Know Where Spain Is?”

  1. Jaim says:
    September 18, 2008 at 3:18 am

    So much for his “experience” argument.

  2. bryan says:
    September 18, 2008 at 3:43 am

    If he has studied any military history, he should be aware of Spain.

  3. Wilbur says:
    September 18, 2008 at 7:24 am

    Remember, it doesn’t matter if Sarah Palin knows doodley-squat about foreign affairs, since she’ll spend four years learning “at the foot of the master”.

  4. Matt says:
    September 18, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Is Gob Bluth running for President? He thought Portugal was in South America.

  5. midderpidge says:
    September 18, 2008 at 9:47 am

    What McCain knew about Spain when fielding a question about the country was the Running of the Bullshit.

  6. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    September 18, 2008 at 9:51 am

    I want to hear the spin on this. I want to know what our local herd of Republican Trolls have to say.

  7. Local Troll Herd says:
    September 18, 2008 at 10:49 am

    57 states! Illinois-Kentucky border! Other times Sen. Obama misspoke!

    So on and so forth.

  8. essrog says:
    September 18, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Mr. Burns: Have the Rolling Stones killed.
    Smithers: But sir, those aren’t the…
    Mr. Burns: Do as I say!

  9. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    September 18, 2008 at 11:26 am

    To be fair, McNovocain probably thought they asked him if he would meet with Emiliano Zapata.

    Heh. Indeed.

  10. Rudy says:
    September 18, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    Lay off. John McCain didn’t have geography books while he was a POW in ‘Nam.

    Don’t laugh — you just *know* somebody’s going to offer up the “Why are you attacking POWs and patriotism?” fallback.

  11. Dr. Victor Davis Handjob says:
    September 18, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Sort of along the lines of Duros, I think he heard “Zapatero” and thought of the “Zapatistas.” Still a gaffe. Imagine what the GOP would do if Biden or Obama has said it.

  12. Quaker in a Basement says:
    September 18, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    How much simpler can St. Tireswing make it? We pay our friends. We screw our enemies.

  13. Joe says:
    September 24, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    To Herd of Trolls:

    What about the Illinois border with Kentucky? Were you confused by this mysterious border?

    Its called the OHIO RIVER.

    You know that Northern States and Southern states are next to each other, right?