Oh, my. The next several weeks are going to be stressful. As an educator who struggles to ensure that my students know where Spanish is spoken in the world, this whole McCain/Spain thing hits home for me. Keith Olberman covers the story, and goes beyond the joke: Ignorance, senility, or belligerance toward our NATO ally? Wait for the part where he talks to Steve Clemons about Spain's role as our ally in Latin America, and with troops in Afghanistan.
Rachel Maddow has a new show on MSNBC. She also has a bit on McCain's confusion over Spain (after her observations about his economic confusion), and whether or not Spain is "one of our adversaries," as well as other geographical and political confusions.
Here's another Spanish-language joke about a conversation between McCain and Zapatero.
Our friends in Canada have a similar set of concersn about militant cultural ignorance (to see subtitles, click on the small arrow on the right of the YouTube viewer to enable transcription).
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Well, I saw a post to the effect that McCain / Palin had American authenticity, and another wherein the U.S. was described as a settler society that kind of colonialist attitudes (and not Enlightenment values or anything like that) at the bottom of it, and wondered once again - perhaps it is just I who am out of step.
I am thinking of just putting my head in the sand until after the election, and if it's McCain, figuring out what to do at that point.
My mother called to tell me that she and her friends are going into bookstores and turning all the magazines with Palin on the cover around so you can't see her face. She says you do strange things when you feel as if you need some power over something.
I am banking on turnout. On the local level here, it is clear that the republicans may make a lot of noise, but the democrats are going to take it.
Here they say there is no way Obama can win. With a maximum of 33% registered Black voters, say the students, the remaining 20% of his votes have to come from whites, and supposedly it isn't clear that many will be willing to vote *both* Democratic *and* Black. The youth vote has GOT to come out. I don't think it's that impossible.
He only got 20% of the white Democratic vote in the primaries here, but I say he'll get much more of it against McCain.
Anyway, I came to see, have you seen that "Barack Obama" is running in several local elections in Brazil???
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5geOXYKsZWP8VS_KFUZMHNtztvHbAD939D7P80
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