Sep 18th, 2008 at 9:31 am
McCain in Spain
Okay, the English version of the interview makes it clear that my hypothesis that McCain just didn’t know that Zapatero was Prime Minister of Spain is wrong, the interviewer specifically tries to draw his attention back to Spain and Europe, and McCain insists on giving irrelevant answers about Mexico:
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September 18th, 2008 at 9:39 am
This whole thing is really bizarre, unless you allow for the distinct possibility that we’re seeing signs of cognitive dementia from the Senator.
Given the choice of his running-mate, that’s about as scary as it gets.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Maybe I’m being unfair here, since I haven’t listened to any radio interviews that Obama has done – for all I know some of them may be this bad. But am I the only person who thinks that McCain comes across as an idiot/robot/stoner here? Could his affect have been any flatter? It’s not a surprise that he couldn’t remember that Spain was a democracy here – it’s a surprise that he didn’t pass out mid-interview, judging from his voice.
Please – no nuclear arms for this man.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:39 am
He knows who Zap is. What he didn’t know is what the interviewer was saying. When Alzheimer’s patients are having trouble assimilating new information they confabulate. And that’s what he was doing when he couldn’t understand the interviewer’s question.
Look, it’s obvious what’s going on here. This man is NOWHERE NEAR mentally fit for office and is going further downhill right before our eyes and ears. The conspiracy of silence about that fact is as frightening as is is disgusting.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:44 am
You’re assuming he was actually listening to the interviewer’s verbal clues in order to give an answer to the actual question. From what I’ve seen, politicians (including government press spokespeople) are now programed to give canned responses no matter the question or whether the response is an actual answer to the question. McCain was clearly fixated on Latin America, and had shifted into Latin America talking points mode. It’s clear to me he’s no longer able to quickly change mental gears like he was even back in 2000, which ought to be a red flag for anyone pondering whether he deserves to be President.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Wait a minute — do you mean to say that Spain is in Europe? Who knew? I thought all those Latin speaking people were in our backyard.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Yikes.
The only thing I will say in a quasi-defense of McCain is that before jumping on the dementia bandwagon, I’d like good evidence that he was once sharper than this.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am
It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here:
- Zapatero pulled troops out of Iraq
- Bush is holding a grudge (and didn’t even meet with him at recent Nato summit)
- McCain either holds the same grudge or won’t risk riling up the neocon base by committing to a meeting with him
September 18th, 2008 at 9:51 am
LEAVE THE MAVERICK ALONE!!!!
the interview was conducted in the morning, so maybe Mav was just coming down off the ambien. besides, we’re all conveniently forgetting that Joe Lieberman wasn’t there to feed him answers. i think Mav showed a lot of courage in this interview.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Of course, it’s the onset of dementia. It may be mild and he could lead a productive life for years, but it isn’t going to get better. I had a relative-in-law who was like McCain is now for around 15 years before her death, and she died of something else entirely. But the condition slowly deteriorated and finally, in the last year, she was simply mute all the time because no words made sense.
Shame on his handlers. Hiding incapacity was terrible back when Mrs. Wilson did it to cover up Wilson’s stroke but it’s worse now because of nuclear weapons.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:53 am
“We are all
SpaniardsGeorgians now.”September 18th, 2008 at 9:54 am
It’s all Zapatero’s fault
Of course, I can see how the blame-America-first crowd would, ridiculously, blame McCain. But clearly, this misunderstanding was 100% Zapatero’s fault:
1) Why does he insist on having a Spanish surname? He knows that Americans find these names hard to pronounce, easily confused with other Spanish names, and generally off-putting. If he really was a good guy, he, and his country, would go anglophone, if only to make up to us for their centuries of rigid adherence to a strange and off-putting language.
2) Why is he Spanish? Doesn’t he know that so many of our enemies, like Castro, or Chavez (Hugo AND Cesar), or Morales, are Spanish? If he and his country had any consideration for us, they would turn anglophone and seek pro (American! football franchises for their major cities.
3) Why does his name begin with a “Z”? How does he expect us to trust anyone whose name begins with a Z? From Zeno of Elea’s attempts to upset good old American common sense all the way through al-Zuwahairi, Z has been the initial of our enemies. Lose the Z!
September 18th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I listened to the whole interview, and agree with Steve L that it seems like McCain was sleepy and lethargic and just didn’t know what the interviewer was asking him. Somehow the the shift from Latin America to Spain was too difficult for McCain to absorb over the phone. The odd reference to Mexico shows that he hadn’t mentally left our “hemisphere.” I’d guess that the combination of this limited mental acuity and the Spanish accent of the interviewer was too much for him to deal with, so he just muddled on. Regardless, this guy and his political party DO NOT deserve the presidency in 2008.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:01 am
To be fair, I think he just couldn’t understand her accent. When she first introduces the question of Spain, she says “espain” in quasi-Spanish and she says Zapatero’s full name very rapidly (the way a Spanish-speaker would).
I think McCain didn’t understand what she said, didn’t want to ask her or suggest he couldn’t decipher her accent, and figured she was talking about Latin America still. Doesn’t seem like a huge deal to me.
Obama shouldn’t get distracted from the “fundamentals of the economy.”
September 18th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Confusing Zapatistas and Zapatero isn’t dementia. It’s just a pretty awful gaffe for a 73 year-old guy running on his foreign policy expertise whose running mate has only been to two countries that don’t border the United States.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:02 am
This is a comparatively innocent flub, though embarrassing given the context (I bet there are quite a lot of listeners to this Miami-based, Spanish-language station who don’t know who “Zapatero” is, nor could they name the PM of Spain). It’s all the other stuff which leaves my hair on fire.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:02 am
McCain may also be critical, with good reason, of Zapatero’s Islamophilia and his support of gay marriage. This is, after all, the man who is trying to remove St. James the Moor-Slayer as the patron saint of Spain. This is also the man who said Spain needs “more sports, less religion.”
September 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I would not imagine that it’s easy to confuse Zapatero and the Zapatistas, since Castilians and Mexicans pronounce the letter ‘Z’ enitrely differently.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am
phonetically:
interviewer says “what about YOO-rup”
and Europe is a bit hard to make out. she says “talking about Spain” after that. McCain has already heard something else, gotten bothered, and gotten his reply together.
“what about ME what?”
so yes, he doesn’t know who Zapatero is, assumes Latin America and says this hemisphere, misses cues about him being Prime Minister, and misses the Spain hint because he’s getting testy. and yeah, it sounds like the ambien hadn’t worn off yet.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am
To be fair, an ability to understand foreign accents would be beneficial for a presidential candidate. I’m just saying.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Sounds like he thought the interviewer asked, “What about you?” when she really said “What about Europe?” His answer was “What about me, what?” He wasn’t quick enough to realize she was trying to help him. And he doesn’t know the prime minister of Spain. But I don’t think he believes Spain is in the western hemisphere; he just misunderstood her when she asked about Europe.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Assuming that McCain actually knows about that stuff, which I doubt, what business is it of John McCain’s to jeopardize American foreign policy over Spain’s domestic policy? Should Europe start causing problems with the US over America’s love of the death penalty and guns?
September 18th, 2008 at 10:09 am
To be fair, an ability to understand foreign accents would be beneficial for a presidential candidate. I’m just saying.
Sure, but it is harder to do on the phone, who knows what was going on in the room where McCain was sitting, etc. Honestly, I had a hard time understanding her original question, and I knew it was coming.
I just don’t think this is a sign of anything. If you asked McCain, “Would you meet with the President of Spain?”, of course he’d say yes.
If the blogosphere gets distracted by this and starts pronouncing that McCain has dementia, his campaign will certainly run against the ‘angry left’ on it. Not that it’ll do much good. I think he’s now toast no matter what.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:09 am
How would John McCain know this?
September 18th, 2008 at 10:11 am
You can’t hug your children with nuclear arms.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I see the Republican hacks are actually trying to suggest McCain was seriously expressing an informed reluctance to meet with Zapatero in the White House. And maybe that is better politically than McCain not understanding the question was about the leader of Spain, despite the interviewer mentioning it multiple times.
But still, it would be freakin batshoot crazy for McCain to be suggesting he might not want leaders of countries like Spain to visit the White House. In that sense, this seems like a Scylla and Charybdis situation.
And no, McCain, those aren’t the names of the guys in Milli Vanilli.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Be fair. McCain still has vivid memories of the Spanish-American war and knows the threat they pose in attempting to restore their empire in Latin America.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:13 am
You don’t expect a presidential candidate to have an elaborate “Spain policy” or anything
The thing is:
(1) I expect a presidential candidate giving an interview to Spanish radio to first take a thorough briefing on issues related to Spain.
(2)There is an ongoing controversy about whether Bush is refusing to meet with Zapatero–they were both at a NATO summit last April, but didn’t speak.
(3) Zapatero, of course, offended the American right by pulling Spanish troops out of Iraq after the Madrid bombings a few years ago.
In other words, if he blundered into this out of ignorance, that represents almost inconceivable incompetence. I don’t expect American leaders to know everything about every issue off the tops of their heads–I do insist that they either get briefed or shut the hell up.
And unfortuantely, it’s all too plausible that this was not simply McCain babbling, but represents some sort of actual policy of refusing to meet with Zapatero.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:13 am
McCain wasn’t sleepy or confused. He was simply channeling his biggest hero, President (and former Assistant Secretary of the Navy) Theodore Roosevelt.
We’re lucky he didn’t conclude the interview by shouting, “Remember the Maine!!”
September 18th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Speaking of dementia, Joe Biden certainly has his share of “STFU, PLEASE” moments.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:16 am
McCain on Spain remains mainly insane…
September 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Matt, it seems fairly clear that McCain didn’t catch the initial comment where she said something about Spain, because later on he goes on to talk about leaders in “the Hemisphere”.
Then she says “what about Europe,” but he hears it as “what about you?” (”What about me what,” he says in response) and presumably didn’t understand the mention of Spain.
My interpretation would be that he didn’t hear the two parts where she mentioned Spain, and had no idea what she was talking about in general. Certainly I don’t think that audio makes it clear at all that McCain knew what she was talking about.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Eh. This isn’t a big deal. McCain sounded reasonably alert if mildly exhausted, had been briefed on a long series of Latin American countries, and regurgitated the briefings accurately and intelligently. I completely disagree with what he says about Bolivia — the idea that free trade deals are somehow going to rescue Bolivia’s economy and solve its political crisis is ridiculous — but that is the longstanding US position on most of Latin America and he expressed it in a grammatically correct fashion that made it clear he understood it. With the Spain thing, the problem was that he got to the end of the interview and he hadn’t said what he wanted to say about Mexico yet, so he went back and said that. That’s not dementia, it’s the normal idiocy of modern communications training: get your message across and ignore the questioner.
As for the odd formulation regarding Spain, it sounded like he just hadn’t been briefed on Spain – his staff probably briefed him on Latin Am and forgot about Spain – and he didn’t want to make a diplomatic gaffe. As a result, he made a diplomatic gaffe, and pissed off the Spanish public. The root problem is that for McCain, the “safe” position is: don’t negotiate, don’t say you’ll talk to this person until you’ve figured out who it is. Obama wouldn’t get into this mess because he doesn’t assume that Foreign Leader X is an enemy until proven otherwise.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:23 am
He was born in Panama! He probably knows more about Latin America than anybody else the country.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I’m in the camp that thinks this isn’t a very big deal, because it really does seem like he just misunderstood the question. That said, and maybe I’m nitpicking a little bit, but I would like America’s president to be able to be very sure he’s understanding something clearly before spouting off with canned rhetoric about our enemies.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:24 am
The problem with the idea that this represents some deliberate snub of Zapatero (per Rea, e.g.) is that McCain wouldn’t make any specific comment about Spain or Zapatero. He resolutely avoided anything specific, and what he did say (referring to the importance of relations with regimes in “this hemisphere,” for instance) suggest that he was confused, not that he was deliberately snubbing Zapatero. If he had understood the question and been deliberately snubbing Zapatero, he’d have likely said something about why he would snub him, specifically, rather than the vague platitudes he did give.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Not to mention that Spain was a charter member of the Coalition of the Willing, at least until the Madrid train bombings.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Are you saying THAT’s not a big deal to you? Wow.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:26 am
The journalist said: “What about EUrope? Spain is in Europe”.
McCain understood: “What about YOU…” and answered “What about me?”
So he missed the helpful comment, and still thought the discussion was about South America.
Not that it is very reassuring that a Prez candidate doesn’t know where Spain is…
September 18th, 2008 at 10:28 am
There is zero reason to think that McCain has dementia or that he does not know that Spain is in Europe and if McCain’s political opponents try to spin it that way, they will lose. On the other hand, it is quite sensible to conclude that an old and tired man was unable to process information (and perhaps to understand accented english) and as a result resorted to some non-responsive and embarrassing talking points. There is a big difference between “John McCain is too old for the demands of the presidency” and “John McCain is a demented idiot.”
September 18th, 2008 at 10:32 am
There is a big difference between “John McCain is too old for the demands of the presidency” and “John McCain is a demented idiot.”
Age isn’t the issue. De Valera and Ben Gurion were both sharp-minded leaders and much older than McCain.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:42 am
It is, but this instance doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know about McCain, and it’s not the most clear-cut example of McCain shooting from the hip that we have available. In the grand scheme of McCain gaffes, this is on the minor side, it’s just bad when taken in the context of his gaffes at large.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Ben Gurion took office the second time when he was 69 and retired when he was 77.. De Valera became prime minister for the last time at 75, a couple of years older than McCain, and like Ben Gurion retired when he was 77 (although he served later as ceremonial president). So both ended up older than McCain is now, but not much older.
A better example would be Konrad Adenauer, who was 73 when he became Chancellor and served until he was 87. Also, De Gaulle was 69 when he became president, and served until he was 79.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Just listened to the interview.
Look, the lady has an accent. If you don’t speak Spanish it’s a pretty thick accent.
It’s crystal clear to me that McCain just doesn’t hear “Spain”, that she spits out “Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero” at a million miles an hour, and that she mumbles “Europe” (McCain thinks she says “me”).
This only looks like a story until you actually hear the English version of the tape. And then the worst you can say about McCain is that he’s hard of hearing. (And his foreign policy sucks.)
September 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hey now, John McCain lived in a house without a kitchen or anything for five long years. No wonder he has difficulty remembering where Spain is. His hands are so crippled he can’t use a computer to learn about Spain. How dare you attack his distinguished service to our country.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
oops, there was supposed to be this following my comment:
/GOP conservobot
September 18th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I agree with Whitey and broosfoe that McCain just didn’t follow what interviewer was talking about because of her accent and the fact that the interview was over the phone. But the fact that he would just spout random talking points rather than find out what the actual question was is terrible. In this case, he pissed off Spain. Embarassing, but relatively minor all things considered. What happens next time when it’s somebody looking for any excuse to be offended and do stuff we don’t like?
In foreign relations and diplomacy, words matter a lot. That’s why Obama was fairly criticized for his undivided Jerusalem comment — he didn’t appreciate the significance of his statement and he should have. That was an error. But when McCain instinctively thinks it’s worse to show a lack of omniscience by asking for a question to be repeated than to risk saying something stupid and offensive, that’s a character flaw. And when the campaign doubles down by turning his error into a real policy position, well that’s pathological obstinance that can only be called Bushian.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Looking up Ben Gurion now in wiki, I realize that my memory is completely wrong about him. In my memory is a photograph from Life magazine of him doing a headstand during his morning yoga. The caption of him says that he’s 90. Impressive for a man who would have been dead 3 years.
My memory was of both men living past 100 and serving into their 90s. No presidency for me!
September 18th, 2008 at 11:22 am
MCCain in Spain
Flows mainly down the drain. . .
September 18th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Zapatero sound an awful lot like Zapata, who McCain, from his youth, remembers as a bad Mexican.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Geoff and others are absolutely right about the thickness of the accent, and about the fact that the interview was being over the phone (as noted McCain actually mistook “Europe” for “you”– that’s why he said “what about me”?) In addition to her thick accent, the interviewer spoke very quickly. She really did an awful job. And McCain’s hearing might not be the greatest.
I think many people would have had trouble there, and it was kind of an unfair situation for him to be in (as well as a very poor move by his campaign to put him in that situation).
Still, McCain’s willingness to BS to cover up his lack of comprehension is striking (especially given the mountains of BS he’s been piling up about Palin). And so is his advisor’s willingness to insult Spain in a lame attempt to save face.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I think this is pretty overwrought. Spain has a long (500+ year) history of intervening in Latin America – this hasn’t changed at all. Take the Chilean situation – Spain’s still trying to prosecute people for the crimes during the Pinochet era.
The point here is that this was a Latin America focused radio station and the conversation was regarding Latin America. Spain’s interests and our interest in Latin America don’t always map.
McCain never flat out said he wouldn’t meet with Zapatero – he just made it clear that the US would work with it’s allies on Latin American issues. Rightly or wrongly this might not inculde Spain under a GOP president.
Of course McCain’s Latin American policies aren’t very good but I didn’t hear any indication that he didn’t know who Zapatero was or where Spain is.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
The question is of course how come everybody here is able to understand exactly what the interviewer meant (and even analyze how her accent could be misinterpreted!), except grandpa McSimpson?
In his defense, she did refer to Zapatero as the president of Spain, while in fact he is the prime minister.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
De Valera was serving as President of Ireland in his 90s, but that is a ceremonial office without major responsibilities.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
But Spain is Old Europe, Matt. It’s to the west of France, for god’s sake! It’s Georgia and the Ukraine that need our solidarity now!
September 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
you’re all missing the most important question: What does this mean for Spain’s potential entrance into the League of Democracies?
September 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Geoff wrote:
“Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero”
The name “Rodriguez” is spelled with a g, not a q. I don’t mean to criticize Geoff specifically here, because my point is that I see this misspelling a lot, and I’m just wondering why. I know that gs and qs look similar, but it’s not like they’re close together on the keyboard, and you don’t see people mistaking ds and bs. Do some people pronounce it with a “k” sound, which would be spelled qith a q? Is this a regional pronunciation thing? Most of the Spanish speakers I know are from Mexico, and I know Mexican and Castilian Spanish have their differences.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
One has to keep in mind that the official title of the Spanish prime minister is Presidente del Gobierno, “President of the Government”. I think I remember people in the US ridiculing Jeb Bush because he had adressed José Maria Aznar with “Mr President” although this was, from the standpoint of protocol, totally correct
September 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Clearly, McCain is still bitter over the U.S.S. Maine. We must never forget!
September 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I just listened to the interview with the reporter. I have been a medical transcriptionist for many years (meaning that I listen to lots of doctors with foreign accents and transcribe the medical terminology they use in their reports). I am skilled at understanding foreign accents in English is what I am trying to say. (I am also an avid Obama supporter and a lifelong Dem.) I think, though, that we may have to give McCain a little break here, at least about the dementia angle (there may be other evidence for that though, scareee). This Miami reporter has a strong Cuban Spanish accent and speaks very rapidly, and was even rather difficult for me to understand without concentrating hard (and I have almost 30 years experience at listening to and transcribing Spanish-speaking MDs with all kinds of accents in English). I really think McCain was having more than a little trouble just understanding her accent. I do think a lot of non-Spanish-speaking Americans would have some trouble understanding this lady, based on the rapidity of her speech and her omitting of some consonants.
One thing I heard that nobody brought up is that toward the end, she tries to clarify to McCain– “Spain is in Europe” (she pronounced it something like YOU-rup–almost swallowing the second syllable). McCain answered as though he had heard her saying “You” and so he says, “What about me?–apparently thinking she had just said “you”. This isn’t necessarily dementia, folks. But clearly, he just didn’t understand her very well and didn’t want to admit it. Also, he had fairly obviously been given talking points about Cuba, since he had the most to say about it (duh, he’s in Miami) and probably to a lesser extent, Latin America. I don’t think he expected to be asked about Spain and probably his handlers didn’t give him talking points. He may not have remembered Zapatero’s name, but to me, it’s more likely he just didn’t really understand her. She gave Zapatero’s full name with both his last names the first time she said it, which probably confused him as well. But I honestly don’t think he understood her well enough to realize she was talking about Spain, especially as she was speaking so fast. He actually sounded barely awake and he certainly isn’t fast on his feet LOL, i.e., not the swiftest swift boat in the pack.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
REMEMBER THE MAINE!!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
This is unbelievable!!
No not the audio from the interview, it seemed pretty clear to me that McCain didn’t understand the interviewer, and tried to give a generic answer.
What IS unbelievable though, is that the McCain campaign just sent out a press release (shown on CNN) stating that McCain knew exactly what the interviewer was talking about, and that he stands behind his statement on Spain. It goes on to say:
WTF?? This just went from a minor misunderstanding to a major diplomatic fuck up. What the hell is wrong with this guy?
I still feel that this was all just a misunderstanding (the interviewer didn’t speak very clearly). But it seems as if the McCain campaign so fears that admitting McCain didn’t understand the interviewer shows weakness, and perhaps prompts questions about his mental faculties given his age, that they are willing to run with his dumb statements and stand behind them.
A terrible week, just got worse for McCain.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:45 am
The Spainish: menace or threat?
Presidential candidate John McCain earlier this week identified a breach in America’s polyester security blanket: the unwanted advances of Spain. The U.S. Senator rebuffed efforts by Spainish Vice Minister José Luis Rodríguez Emilio Marcus Zapatero to initiate talks should McCain and Governor Palin prevail in the election.
Spain is a lumpy-looking country once part of the European landmass above Africa. Some 6000 years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Spain became entangled in the tectonic dinner plate movement and now sits uneasily just below Texas but solemnenly above Costa Rica.
McCain was asked if he would receive Zapatero – named after a popular style of Spainish shoes, – in the White House should he be elected. His replied, “I took fewer earmarks than my predecessor and never supported any bridge to anywhere. I’ll have to analyze our relationships, situations and priorities before I would establish closer relationships with our friends or enemies sans birth control and I will confront those who want to enter the United States illegally and hit them with my cane. Your mojo is bad, too.”
The Spainish media believes that the Republican candidate, who claims extensive international diplomatic experience confused Spain, a member of NATO and proven ally in the fight against terrorism with Venezuentina or Perolivia in Latin America. The radio interviewer, baffled by the Senator’s answer reminded McCain that Spain once had rain on the plains when it was located in Europe.
Spain has a long, bloody history of oppression. As recently as 516 years ago Spain harbored Islamic extremist architects who built the Alhambra . In1492, Spainish explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Bermuda. Or Cuba. Or was it Aruba? Ask Governor Palin. Spainish galleons transported precious cargo from Newish World back to Spain. The Spainish inquisition nearly gained a foothold in New Orleans around 1774, which would have been, like, pretty lame.
Spainish people can have darker skin, bushy eyebrows and melodious voices, all signs of terrorist inbreeding according to sources in the U.S. State Department. They often loiter in dark caves, gorging on solidified rotten milk, fermented grape juice and dried swine leg.
As the Spainish newspaper El País remarked, “Even if Spain is guilty of harboring WMD’s McCain’s answer demonstrates a shocking loss of bone density.” On Thursday, the mood at another Spainish newspaper named UnoDosTres was sulky when it lamented that “the frigid Alaskan air mass between the U.S. and Spain could continue if the John McCain reaches the Casa de Blanco.”
Vice Minister Zapatero promised that the Spainish people would be cool with the new Administration “as long as it’s not the wobbly old bozo and his big-hair senora.”
December 13th, 2008 at 3:57 am
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