CountingCoup
In the case of McCain making any statements about SPAIN, he would have been better off saying nothing.
I listened to the questions posed to McCain several times by the reporter in Miami who had a Spanish speaking accent.
And I could not help but conclude that McCain believed she (reporter) when asking if McCain would meet Spain’s Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, he immediately thought Zapatero was a leader in our Latin countries.
In fact McCain started talking about Latin America immediately. When she corrected him into the side of the world, and that she was asking about a meeting with Spain, he seemed dumbfounded.
The stance his campaign in trying to cover up for a Homer Simpson “doh” moment was that McCain is not guaranteeing a meeting with the NATO Ally Spain.
I guess his campaign thinks that is the lesser of two decision based on a huge gaffe of his broad generalization that if you speak Spanish you must be from Latin America.
Now that was a classic Bush moment!