Well, he’s not a Democrat.
I could understand this if we were talking about someplace obscure: “Will you be willing to meet with the President of Burkina Faso?” It would be unreasonable to expect McCain to know the ins and out of our diplomatic relations with every country in the world off the top of his head.
But this is freakin’ SPAIN! As people have pointed out, it’s a member of NATO! If Spain is attacked we’re bound by treaty to go to war to defend them. But McCain isn’t sure if he’d meet with their President?
A foreign policy “expert” should at least know who our major allies are … .
El senor McCain es un puta estupido
I know it’s english board but I think a casual reading of that even to monolingual english speakers will make my meaning clear. Especially with this clue.
Epic fail at VB code
try this clue.
This tells me that McCain is really in the early stages of senility. The smart thing to do, when you realize you don’t have a clue, is to STFU! He could have said something like: “I really am not prepared to discuss specifics, but I will discuss general points of my campaign”-it would have been OK…but to make a fool out of yourself?
better pray that palin can learn fast!:eek:
“Puta” is feminine, so that would be “una puta estúpida.” If you want to call McCain a man-whore, the word is “puto.”
Glad to help.
So … you’re proud to be an ignorant fuck?
He’s just proud to vote for 'em. To have ignorant fucks running our country. Talk about un-American.
It’s kind of… disturbing… that the McCain campign’s response is not “You know, it was a long day, and the Senator was having trouble hearing the question. Of course the Senator will meet with the Prime Minister and all of our NATO allies when he is president. The Senator meant no disrespect and is happy to grant a follow-up interview as his time permits.”
Wouldn’t that have basically killed it? Instead the campaign is locked into a foreign policy position of sorts, and a rather testy one, when it is pretty freakin’ clear that this was all just a temporary confusion.
This puts me ill at ease at the prospect of a McCain presidency.
I think this is an important point. George Bush was barely hurt at all by his repeated blunders on foreign policy during the 2000 election, in large part because of this sentiment. People thought “heck, I don’t know who the leader of Pakistan is, who am I to give the guy a hard time about it?”
We shouldn’t be putting ourselves in the role of the job interviewee and thinking how we’d react in situations like this – most of us are grossly unqualified to be president, so of course we’re going to relate to these sorts of blunders. We need to get back to caring that the most qualified person get the job, not the person we can relate to the best. We may sympathize with the guy on Jeopardy who came in third and barely buzzed in at all, but our vote needs to go to Ken Jennings.
Reagan didn’t go senile until the end of his term. McCain is heading there even before the vote. Another possibility, though, is that he’s dumbing down because it is ungallant to know more than your VP choice. Or, maybe he didn’t have enough time to learn the names of foreign leaders because he was so busy brushing up on economics.
Ah, the old anti-elitist strategy. Even if a guy is stupidly rich, he’s okay so long as he doesn’t put on airs (or get “uppity”).
Populism has always been a powerful force in a democracy. What’s amazing to me is how effectively the Republicans have tapped into it, despite being so fundamentally less populist than Democrats on key issues like tax policy and programs which disproportionately benefit the lower and middle classes. No matter how bad they are at running the country, you can’t deny that they’re very good at winning elections.
McCain didn’t have buzzers for 5 1/2 years, how can you expect him to use a buzzer with his P.O.W. wounds and stuff?
Hold off on the self back patting there kid.
I thought someone might jump on me about that. Puto is grammatically correct but in common usage it’s rarely used, puta being used for both genders, atleast according to a Venezuelan Canadian friend of mine. Since she learned Spanish from her parents who speak it as a first language I’m more inclined to believe her, then the wikitionary where judging by the dash you got that from.
My guess is since it’s used for both genders because if you dislike a dude enough to call him a puta you’re not gonna care if it emasculates him, or chalk it up to the difference between the English drawed vs drawn.
Well, according to some … perhaps they are right and perhaps they are not…it’s all about narrative. The press reports stuff that fits into their pre-determined narrative about a candidate (whether it’s true or not) and omits the stuff that is not. Up until about 3 weeks ago the story on McCain was he was a hero who was very interested in foreign policy, not so much the economy, and that he was so truthful and honor-bound that he’d rather “lose an election that a war.” So you saw lots of stories about what a great guy he was, and that he was soooo honest that it caused him physical pain to lie even when he was forced to by expediency.
Before our eyes the narrative on him is turning to one of a serial liar who is out of touch. So if it looks like he doesn’t know that Spain is in Europe this completely ties into the new narrative forming about his being out of touch, and when his people put out explanations about why he said what he said that are so pathetic (you can see Spain from Alaska anyone?) that it will make even 3-month-old babies roll their eyes it will ratchet up the liar meme as well.
Will that matter?
According to those who believe that Gore lost because the press couldn’t stop yakking about how he was a prissy, boring, Internet-founding liar it will.
He also turned out to be in the early stages of Alzheimers in his second term of presidency, and there was that little thing called Iran-Contra-perhaps you remember it?
Popularity does not necessarily mean one is a GOOD president. Just a popular one.
Hell, they’re great at campaigning, especially when it involves blatant lies. Because a significant percentage of American voters have shit for brains.
Look at Shrub. He was type-cast as a regular guy, down-to-earth, hard-workin’, next door type of guy. In truth he was born to a career politician and diplomat and an heiress. His rich daddy’s pull got him into Yale, out of combat in 'Nam and into the Guard–where he even showed up once in a while–and bailed him out of every business he drove into the ground. Shrub never grew to much more than an arrogant, spoiled frat rat. But hey, put professional sleaze Karl Rove on the case, lie like a motherfuck, dream up some real whoppers, and some people will believe them.
Shrub. Humble, horny-handed man of the soil, one of the masses. John McShame, professional Maverick and Washington outsider. A man of stern morals–who fucked around on his badly injured starter-wife with a blonde slut with inherited millions, a cocaine habit and a penchant for theft.
Bad soap opera. And it works. It takes a particular kind of stupidity and/or willful blindness for it to work, though.
You just lost Obama 100 votes with that remark. I hope you’re satisfied. :mad:
You vote 100 times? Where do you live Chicago?