For second time John McCain forgets that Czechoslovakia doesn't exist anymore. I would suggest that he look up the "Velvet Divorce" on Wikipedia but of course he doesn't know how. Might be the sort of thing people will want to refer to in case the endless political crisis in Belgium results in a separation.
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The Country That Wasn't There
14 Jul 2008 10:27 pm
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John McCain's foreign policy expertise is a fraud. This is just one more instance in support of that proposition.
He has people who can go on Wikipedia for him.
Hey, at least he moved on from William Jennings Bryant to Theodore Roosevelt.
Actually, is that an advance in time? Or were they contemporaries? I'll have to check.
I know: I'll look it up on the Internet.
SUCK ON IT, JOHNNY
McCain is as ignorant as Bush and would be an utter disaster for this country. It's time to rise up and utterly reject McSame; let's vomit him out on election day.
We've already had one dumb president too many; we cannot afford another one.
I wish you bloggers would quit pointing out every time McCain says something like this. Last time it was pointed out to the whole world that a Presidential candidate was clueless about international affairs he became the worst President in history. Twice.
Matt,
Oops! You missed piece of snark: this post should read "The Wikipedia."
No, no, don't mention it. Happy to help.
Older people are sometimes reluctant to eliminate long-dead notions and vernacular from their heads like Jim Crow, crime & terrorism is due to poverty, Czechosolvakia, the Rosenbergs were innocent, etc.
Sometimes people, new and old, just say the old names are good enough for their purposes.
"This year, I demand you refer to us no longer as african-american, but people of color, which may change to niggahs being officially OK amongst us, but a grave offense if other races use it..."
"Yah, sure. You black folks have a ball figuring out what's next..."
Screw Belgium.
This ignorance is inexcusable if you're at all paying attention to the missile shield issue. Which supposedly McCain is!
Like, a WEEK ago, Condi Rice was in the Czech Republic signing a hard-won "landmark accord" that was a big step forward in authorizing a missile shield in Europe.
Slovakia, on the other hand, has been consistent and outspoken in its opposition to a missile shield. The current Premier made sure to reiterate his stance against it when he was visited by Poland's leader in January (Poland is less anti-shield). Last year, an ex-premier was repeating Putin's warnings on the missile shield, with incendiary rhetoric. You ask the Slovak leadership about the missile shield, they spit out Russian talking points. Heck, they do it without being asked.
So, on one of the most important issues for the US in Europe, these two countries are on completely opposing sides. Not only is it an important issue, it's a timely one. The SECRETARY OF STATE was in the Czech Republic on goddam TUESDAY signing a missile shield deal. There were 1,700 articles on it in the international press, according to Google News. Russia is saber-rattling, threatening military action if it's deployed. It's the sort of thing a Presidential candidate who cares about the missile shield is going to be briefed on.
And yet McCain doesn't seem to understand that the Czech Republic is an independent, sovereign nation whose position on the issue he cares about most is totally diametrically opposed to that of Slovakia.
ARGH!
Ahhh, you kids probably don't even remember Czechoslovakia. Have some sympathy for someone who spent decades referring to the country as Czechoslovakia. When they settle on a reasonable name like Czechia I'll start criticizing people for getting the name wrong.
The irony is that almost 50% or more than American will vote for this numbnuts in November.
And you retards want to spread democracy around the world?
The irony is that almost 50% or more Americans will vote for this numbnuts in November.
And you retards want to spread democracy around the world?
1997 mccain: “diversity of viewpoints is as close as clicking on the Internet”
2008 mccain: “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.”
eleven years mccain affirmed that he was in fact aware of the internet's existence. any minute now gramps is going to be totally aware of all internet traditions. i heard a rumor somebody's hooked him up with the video professor.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/14/open-thread-868/#comment-777588
Hameed has it right. Back in 2003, some "man in the street" interviews had US citizens claiming Iraq was sixty miles off the coast of Florida...
And they're the ones voting for McCain.
Once Bush attacks Iran, the figure will be at least 51-55% of the actual voting electorate, if not 60 or more.
Obama is going to lose.
No doubt that the high percentage of gangrenous imbeciles here is always a pivotal factor in any important election, but Obama will become our 44th CIC because of two reasons all simpletons love:
1. McCain is too fuckin' old.
2. McCain's pasty-faced grimacing puss is a TV turnoff. No one wants to look at his stiff useless arm either.
Obama will win and may even win big.
Hehe. McCain sure is dumb. But not as dumb as that absolute moron Barack Obama - who thinks there are 57 states in the United States.
After all, at Czechoslovakia once existed. The United States never had 57 states. That's OK, though; I'm sure that most left-wingers are absolutely thrilled that they are going to vote for someone who knows less civics than a 3rd grader.
If John McCain knew there were 82,000 ABBA videos on YouTube I bet he'd be online.
Did you use "No Country for Old Men" on this topic already? It seems appropriate.
I'm sure that most left-wingers are absolutely thrilled that they are going to vote for someone who knows less civics than a 3rd grader.
You're not on the ballot, Al, and we wouldn't vote for you if you were. Nyeh nyeh nyeh.
same guy who doesn't know the difference between Sunnis and Shi'ites? totally believable. has anyone actually asked McCain what the difference is? did a reporter call him out on this absurd misnomer and say "hey, fuckface, what country are you talking about?"?
of course not. you won't hear a substantive word about either. God our media is failing us.
Well, you yung'uns don't remember, but we used to call it Czechoslovakia all the time. It's like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville.
I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days.
So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
Now, to take the ferry costs a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them.
'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you'd say.
Now, where were we? Oh, yeah.
The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get were those big, yellow ones... ;)
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This kind of thing is non-trivial. Really, you need to remember major world events; you need to know how to get on the internet. He's running to be president now, not twenty years ago.
Posted by Ted | July 14, 2008 10:44 PM