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To: JohnM who wrote (85322)	9/18/2008 3:18:10 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541674

As some of you may know, there's been a large amount of blog discussion of McCain's interview with a Spanish language interviewer in which he made some mistakes with the name of the Spanish PM. Josh Marshal has been, for instance, posting on it since last night. It seemed to me a conversational blunder which McCain simply handled badly. Nothing more. But now his foreign policy adviser says he meant to sideline the Spanish PM. Here's Joe Klein on the stuff. I'll post a longer narrative from Marshall later. ---------------------------- Swampland, TIME September 18, 2008 2:01 Diplomacy Posted by Joe Klein As reported here earlier, John McCain seemed to diss Spain's leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero--or maybe confuse him with a Latin American leader--in a radio interview the other day. Now Randy Scheunemann, McCain's ninja neocon foreign policy adviser, is saying that McCain meant exactly what he said: "The questioner asked several times about Senator McCain's willingness to meet Zapatero (and id'd him in the question so there is no doubt Senator McCain knew exactly to whom the question referred). Senator McCain refused to commit to a White House meeting with President Zapatero in this interview." Does that mean Spain's membership in the League of Democracies is on hold? Seems to me that putting a chill in the relationship with one of our NATO allies simply because McCain misheard a question is going a bit far. time-blog.com