Thursday, September 18, 2008
Senator McCain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still seriously dead
John Aravosis (DC) · 9/18/2008 11:51:00 AM ET
(UPDATE: I've translated McCain's interview from April with the Spanish press - that translation is at the end of this post. He couldn't have been more clear that he's interested in having fantastic relations with Spain, and in fact, McCain invited the Spanish leader to the White House should be win the election. It's clear that McCain is now lying when he says that he meant to distance himself from Zapatero yesterday.)
It appears that John McCain now believes that General Franco, who died in the 1970s, is still ruling Spain.
That's the only explanation for why the McCain campaign is now saying that McCain won't meet with the Spanish President should McCain win the election (in the Spanish press, Zapatero is in fact referred to as "the president"). This is the excuse the McCain campaign is now giving reporters to explain why McCain recently told an interviewer with the Spanish paper El Pais that he wasn't sure he'd be interested in meeting the Spanish president. It's clear from the interview, which we posted below, that McCain was having some kind of mental lapse during the interview so that he didn't even understand that Spain was in Europe. But
the McCain campaign can't admit that John McCain appeared to have a senile moment, and that his dementia was caught on tape. Instead, the McCain campaign is now embracing the only argument they have left - they're actually now claiming that McCain meant every word he said.
Really?
Let's analyze, then, what McCain said
more at:
http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/senator-mccain-generalissimo-francisco.htmlhttp://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/sheunemann_mccain_just_doesnt_want_to_meet_with_spains_pm.php