Comments on: Scheunemann: McCain was not confused, he simply refuses to meet with Spanish Prime Minister.

By: Fromageball

Fromageball — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:54:24 +0000

What possible reason could be given for McSame’s bizarre position on this issue, unless it is because the alternative (that McSame was confused about the question) is much, much worse for his presidential prospects?

Senility

By: SPQR

SPQR — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:41:50 +0000

Crazy Cat Lady Says:
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A serious Question:

Hispanics are only from the Americas right? I don’t believe that’s a correct way to talk about someone of Spanish extraction. They are white(ish) Europeans.

Mordor – Hilarious!

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Hispanic can refer to someone from Latin America or Spain.

Latino/a – is usually used for someone specifically from Latin America or a Spanish-speaking area.

I think if a Spaniard had to choose between one of the two, he/she would use ‘hispano/a’, but usually they always use ‘espanol/espanola’

By: Crazy Cat Lady

Crazy Cat Lady — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:37:32 +0000

A serious Question:

Hispanics are only from the Americas right? I don’t believe that’s a correct way to talk about someone of Spanish extraction. They are white(ish) Europeans.

Mordor – Hilarious!

By: BaxterJ

BaxterJ — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:20:04 +0000

At best, this makes McCain look like a confused old man. At best!

By: mongo

mongo — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:18:48 +0000

“Looks like McCain is drafting his Axis of Evil list a bit early. So far we have:

Spain
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Ottoman Empire

Did I miss any?”

Gaul
Sparta
Mordor

By: 49erDem

49erDem — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:57:25 +0000

I think the point is that the old crackpot’s foreign policy is so insane that he’s refusing to meet with the head of a NATO state. Your feelings about the elected leader of Spain notwithstanding, he is the elected leader of a member of the NATO alliance. The old crackpot, as usual, doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

By: Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:13:49 +0000

VietnamVet Says:

For Evil Spaniard:

How others post is none of your business. Different folks read different threads, in case you are unaware.

You mean people read only the posts of the threads they’re interested in? Curiously enough, both threads where you’ve posted (must I say pasted?) have the same topic, the declarations of McCain about Spain and our President.

BTW, your English really needs some improvement, especially in the comprehension area! Some of what you say does not even make sense.

I know I’m not very fluent in English, but you claim to be an expert in Spain, and you’ve not said a single word of Spain, besides some stereotypes you can be read at a short article in any English language online (and right wing) paper.

If you don’t agree with a post, state why, give some evidence, support what you are saying, and so on. Avoid ad hominem attacks…they get you nowhere. Take care now, OK.

September 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pm Recommend (0) | Report Abuse

Your very first post in the thread about the declarations of McCain relatives to Spain below this one was an Ad Hominem, so you don’t have any moral high ground over me.

By: VietnamVet

VietnamVet — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:51:17 +0000

For Evil Spaniard:

How others post is none of your business. Different folks read different threads, in case you are unaware.

BTW, your English really needs some improvement, especially in the comprehension area! Some of what you say does not even make sense.

If you don’t agree with a post, state why, give some evidence, support what you are saying, and so on. Avoid ad hominem attacks…they get you nowhere. Take care now, OK.

By: Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:06:48 +0000

VietnamVet Says:

September 18th, 2008 at 2:28 pm Recommend (0) | Report Abuse

No need to spam the exact same post in multiple threads, genius.

(Genius is ironic, BTW, if you don’t get it)

By: VietnamVet

VietnamVet — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:28:17 +0000

For what it is worth, and I live in Spain, it is customary here to use Prime Minister OR President. While in parliment, he is generally referred to as Mr. President. Now, here is a post I have made elsewhere. McCain obviously could not field the question on Spain as such, but….
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I am certainly not a supporter of McCain, quite the opposite, but if he does not want to meet with Zapatero of Spain, I agree with him wholeheartedly! I live in Spain, and have for many years. Zapatero is a liar, opportunist, knows less about economics than McCain, knows little about the outside world, and is ruining Spain. The man only won reelection with the help of the Communist party here in Spain. Even representatives in the European community avoided even sitting with the man during his few visits to Brussels. (The man continuously smiles, even at funerals!) Some of the programs he pushes in Spain border on the asinine. One typical example: he recently laid a tax on all electronic devices that are capable of reproducing music with the revenues to go to those poor artists whose discs are being copied illegally. Truth is, no one buys the trash those so called artists put out. The tax was simply to garner the vote of thousands of those “failed artists” and nothing more. I could go on, but this is just a sample of the man’s mentality! And, he folks are STILL waiting for the 400 Euros he promised each person if he was reelected. (So much for outright buying votes!) So, McCain, Obama, or any other US Government person should continue to shun this borderline idiot like the plague! The man makes Bush look like a genius!

By: AngryOne

AngryOne — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:04:02 +0000

In one of the more bizarre developments of campaign 2008, John McCain’s campaign has announced that he won’t be rolling out the White House welcome mat for Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, president of America’s NATO ally Spain. But if McCain’s posture seems like an adolescent temper tantrum aimed at a critical member of Washington’s Atlantic alliance, it’s hardly an isolated episode. With his vitriolic Paris and Berlin-bashing in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003, John McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with the France-hating purveyors of “freedom fries” and “old Europe.”

For the details, see:
“Snub of Spain Just McCain’s Latest Europe Bashing.”

By: squidbilly

squidbilly — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:54:02 +0000

What did Spain do to get the wrath of(Mc)Cain????

Because Spain pulled out of Iraq???

What a spiteful SOB.

By: JYD

JYD — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:45:06 +0000

Wait a minute…I didn’t know that McCain was participating in Palin’s favorite game…”stump-the-candidate”

McCain scares me more than Bush if that is possible.

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:12:29 +0000

I heard that the head gardener at one of the McMansions is a mexican immigrant named Fernando Zapatero. McCain was simply asserting that HE doesn’t talk to the help. That’s the trollup’s responsibility.

By: Michael Lafferty

Michael Lafferty — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:49:00 +0000

I believe that I see what happened here.

Senator McCain, a longtime resident of the state of Arizona, simply was confused: apparently, he thought that the interviewer was referring not to the current President of Spain, but rather to General Emiliano Zapata, a key leader of the Mexican revolution and architect of the Zapatista guerrilla army and movement, and the Liberation Army of the South.

“Land, liberty, and justice.” Sounds like a rather progressive individual, and therefore an ‘enemy’ of America.

The revolution might be seen as a sort of the precursor to the ‘horde of brown people’ expected by conservatives to swarm across the border any day now, and reclaim their lost ‘Mexican territory’ in the American southwest. Viva Aztlá! Viva República del Norte! Or, something. It’s an easy mistake to make, I suppose, for those who seem to think that all of those ‘brown people’ think, act and sound alike.

Now, can I earn points [or something] for spinning crazy explanations like this on behalf of the McCain-Palin campaign? [Or, is it now the Palin-McCain campaign?] This seems at least as creative as anything Randy Scheunemann has sputtered to date, and appears far more plausible.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:48:27 +0000

Oh, FSM help us!! The geezer’s LOOSE!!!

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:45:40 +0000

mary Says:

Could she even find Iran on a map? I mean, c’mon. I can’t wait to hear her try to pronounce the president of Iran’s name.

September 18th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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She already tried it in the Charlie Gibson interview, and botched it quite predictably. She used the glottal KH sound for Ahmed instead of the correct aspirated H.

By: MCMetal

MCMetal — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:43:44 +0000

*Speaking of the town hall meeting*

An anti-McDepends/Caribou Barbie protestor was just ‘escorted’ from the building ; when do Obama and/or Biden have people physically removed from the premises when they’re speaking ?

By: mary

mary — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:38:53 +0000

o/t but check out this quote from a story in today’s Globe & Mail (story’s entitled, “Fixing Wall Street … good luck with that“), which I believe is basically the Canadian equivalent of the Wall St. Journal:

‘Surely, this time, the citizens of Wall Street have learned their lesson. Surely, all this damage – 110,000 banking layoffs, the collapse of firms that have existed since the Cretaceous period, the evisceration of wealth – will cause them to see the error of their ways. Goodbye, red suspenders; hello, hair shirt.

And if it doesn’t, John McCain will make them see it. “And as president, I guarantee you, it will never happen again,” Sarah Palin’s running mate told CNBC the other day.’

Get that? They described McCain as “Sarah Palin’s running mate”!

By: Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:29:02 +0000

“Scheunemann: McCain was not confused, he simply refuses to meet with Spanish Prime Minister.”

Of course, because we DON’T HAVE a Prime Minister.

It’s so hard understanding a different political system, with a PRESIDENT at top…

/Snark