The Spain spin - McShame really won't meet with the Spanish "president"

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/sheunemann_mccain_just_doesnt_want_to_meet_with_spains_pm.php

Wow. I really thought that John McCain’s Spain gaffe was just that, a gaffe, wherein he somehow got confused about what was happening and didn’t understand that the question about holding a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister José Zapatero was a question about Spain and Europe rather than rogue leaders from Latin America. Certainly that strikes me as the fairest reading of the audio. Here’s the relevant portion, in English:

But now along comes Randy Scheueneman with an official campaign statement saying that it wasn’t a gaffe, that McCain was articulating an actual “no meetings with Spain” policy:

(snip)

That’s an insane policy. Recall that under the North Atlantic Treaty, the United States is actually obligated to go to war on behalf of Spanish territorial integrity and vice versa. Also — McCain might want to hire someone who can clarify for his campaign that the head of state in Spain is the “king” and the head of government is the “prime minister.”

"Yeah! Invade South Ossetia! THAT'S THE TICKET!" saying SPAIN now belongs to the axis-of-evil, to be shunned at all costs??? Hä??? :crazy:

he went with this...Spain = evil doer

LMAO

to run with the "Spain sucks" angle--neither is a good option, but they chose the less politically damaging.

and the first thing he did was pull out his troops.

Damn him

those shrimp before putting them in!!!!

Jesus. What are you supposed to do, just eat the whole thing????????

just wonderin? :shrug:

this is just his campaign spinning it the best way they know how, which is to say "yeah, that's right, John McCain is just that baddass, dammit.

:wtf: Seriously. :wtf:

Is he gonna add them to his list of countries to go to war against, just for the hell of it???

To hell with the Dons! says McCain.

I don't think McCain meant it in the first place.

Some in Spain misinterpreted, and McCain's campaign is running with it (apparently) so as not to appear like McCain got confused (which he did).

I think it was a gaffe. The whole thing is ridiculous.