McCain's bizarre response as to whether he would meet with the Spanish Prime Minister

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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

Right. And pigs and lipstick aside, he's done a decent job of sticking to the "I'm the new young guy with really fancy talk" thing.

If McCain wants to win us over with his incomparable experience with foreign policy, he should at least make it seem like he knows which leaders belong to Cuba and which ones belong to Spain. That's my point.

Do you believe it's conclusive he didn't know? Or is it possible he was dismissing Zapatero for Zapatero's slight against the US. Right wing groups in Spain interpreted, gleefully, the slight, as a slight against Zapatero, and are using that to gain advantages of their own.

From reading it is unclear to me which interpretation is correct. If he had been prepared for Latin American discussions I can see him not knowing, not that that is excusable. Or given his Iraq stance, it seems more probable to me that he simply doesn't feel any affinity for Zapatero given his abandonment of Iraq and the Allies.