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	<title><![CDATA[Not a Gaffe? McCain Campaign Willing to Destroy Relationship with Spain, Europe to Conceal Confusion]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/not-a-gaffe-mccain-campai_b_127486.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><<p>Worse than Bush. There can be <a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/sheunemann_mccain_just_doesnt_want_to_meet_with_spains_pm.php">no doubt about it now</a>. </p></p>

<p>In McCain's bizarre interview with <a href="http://www.cadenaser.com/internacional/audios/interview-to-senator-mccain-english/seresc/20080918csrcsrint_1/Aes/">Spanish Owned <em>Union Radio</em></a> he refused to say whether he would meet with Spain's Prime Minister, Jos&Atilde;&copy; Luis Rodr&Atilde;&shy;guez Zapatero. Listening to the interview repeatedly, it simply seemed that <a href="http://www.nsnetwork.org/node/981">McCain had no idea who Zapatero actually was</a>. McCain seemed to think he was a Latin American autocrat - despite the reporter repeatedly saying &amp;quot;I am talking about Spain.&amp;quot; This gaffe would...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-10-19T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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