El Blog de Carlos

The title works best if you’ve seen My Fair Lady and pronounce “brain” with two sylables. Anyway, at first I wasn’t planning on pointing out McCain’s latest gaffe in which he wouldn’t commit to meeting Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Campaigns are long. I’m sure Sen. McCain is tired. I’m not exactly an expert on Spanish politics myself. Something about glass houses and throwing stones etc…

Then Sen. McCain’s campaign came out and insisted that the Senator meant what he said, and that McCain is not prepared to commit to a meeting with Mr. Zapatero. This presumably happened after the Senator had a chance to consult with his advisers and clarify just who Zapatero is (the democratically-elected leader of a major NATO ally). McCain still won’t commit to meeting with him.

I’m starting to wonder if we should ask the McCain campaign to publish a list of world leaders with whom he would be willing to meet. If we’re rejecting the Spanish, how about the British? The Canadians? Will he chat with the governors of non-Alaskan U.S. states, or are their democratic and human rights credentials insufficiently well-established?

Maybe McCain’s people just figured it would be better for their candidate to seem a bit wacky than to seem outright senile, but this is pretty frightening.