Thursday, September 18, 2008

Where is Spain? don't ask McCain!


Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo and John Aravosis from AmericaBlog have been all over this story. Is McCain hostile to Spain? Does he think Zapatero is the president of a country in Latin America? is he senile? going deaf? you decide.

For my Spanish-speaking readers, here is the article in El País, the Spanish newspaper, about the radio interview between McCain and the reporter from Miami radio station Radio Caracol.

Here's a Spanish "translation" of the remarks McCain made in English when asked about José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, presidente del gobierno de España.

Here is Zapatero presenting the law for a vote that made marriage between same-sex partners legal in Spain.

Here is the Spanish transcript of the speech he made when the law was approved. Here is the English translation.

1 comment:

Rent Party said...

He may be sleep deprived and overworked but knowing where major countries are even in that state *is* a "qualification" for the presidency in my opinion.

I get tired sometimes of the "experience" argument - Washington has experience bureaucrats and staff, and I'm more concerned about people's positions than I am their "experience" and "qualifications" understood in terms of "experience."

But to be qualified you DO have to know what's happening.