Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

McCain and the Clouseau Doctrine (The Fallibility of Infallibility)

David Quigg | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Election Reaction, McCain Mistakes, Politics News, Radio Caracol Miami, Satire, Africa, Sarah Palin, Political Satire, Peter Sellers, Spain, Election 2008, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politics News
David Quigg

The Clouseau Doctrine, enunciated in the The Pink Panther Strikes Again, as I understand it, is that a person needs to deny any fallibility whatsoever and pretend any errors are deliberate.

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Underdog Wins Gold at 2012 Sarah-lympics

David Quigg | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Debate, Vice President, Bridge to Nowhere, Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spin, Satire, Expectations, Joe Biden, Olympics Boycott, Politics News
David Quigg

BOB COSTAS: And we are back. More coverage of the decathlon coming up in just minutes here. But first we're going to quickly send you out to a place t...

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Spain's Media in Uproar Over McCain's Comments Regarding Prime Minister Zapatero

Marisa Treviño | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, South America, Spain, Mccain Spain, Foreign Policy, Mccain Spain Interview, Mccain Zapatero, Politics News
Marisa Treviño

To his credit, Zapatero is downplaying McCain's remarks and chalking it up to the "election process." However, Spanish pride being what it is, the people and media of Spain aren't letting this pass quietly.

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John McCain's Señor Moment

David Goldstein | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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David Goldstein

McCain surely knows that Zapatero is the president of Spain, and that Spain is part of Europe... that is, when he's lucid.

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View From Europe: Is McCain Losing It?

Steve Kettmann | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Steve Kettmann

It will be entertaining to watch the McCain campaign try to distract from their candidate's weird inability to place Spain on the European continent.

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Obama and Clinton: Does The Mainstream Media Have It Wrong?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Jan Crawford Greenburg, Abortion, Michele Obama, Segolene Royal, Hillary Clinton, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Planned Parenthood, Hillary's Debt, Barack Obama, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Gail Collins, Women for Obama, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

The questions about the Obama-Clinton relationship will undoubtedly remain. However, the voices for "party unity" and "taking back the White House" are starting to sound increasingly strong.

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Letter from Spain: Even With An Economy Hitting the Rocks, This Country's Still A Progressive Beacon (For Now)

David Paul Appell | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Europe, Carlos Ibarretxe, Europe, Zapatero, Jose Maria Aznar, Europe Immigration, Mariano Rajoy, Spanish Politics, Carme Chacon, Spain Politics, Partido Popular, Partido Socialista Obrero EspañOl, Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Rajoy, Psoe, Pp, Aznar, Eta, Politics News
David Paul Appell

In my ongoing effort to keep Huffpo readers apprised of what progressive government really looks like in 2008, I'm filing a dispatch marking Monday's three-month anniversary of the re-election of Spain's Socialist Party for a second consecutive term in office.

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Video: King Of Spain Telling Chavez To Shut Up

Dark14 | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

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During the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos of Spain becomes somewhat agitated at Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Read...

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King Of Spain Telling Chavez To Shut Up Becomes Ringtone Hit

BBC News | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

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The king of Spain's recent undiplomatic outburst at the Venezuelan president has become a ringtone hit across Spain. An estimated 500,000 people have...

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