Many consider spain to be part of Latin America even if it is thousands of miles away. For one the speak spanish, they used to have a bunch of colonies ages ago and influenced every single latin american country, and their artists are heard and seen all over latin American, therefore McCain's comment about Spain being Latin America isn't too far away from the truth.

The Zapatistas are in Chiapas, southern Mexico, I think. Easy mistake considering the pressure of this campaign. I think McCain is going on 3 hours of sleep a day.

Zapatero is an anti-American wack-off anyway. He sits down at the US flag.

I'm spanish and when i heard McCain saying this on radio i was so embarrassed. Ok, we're not one of the biggest countries in the world, but i think that the future presdient of the U.S must know who's Spain's Prime Minister.

McCain = Bush = No knowledge = No Diplomacy

Regardless of whether McCain understood the question or not, a president needs to be able to make decisions and understand breaking situations. Just for the record: Spain has the 8th largest economy, which is reason enough to be a major player in international talks. It has excellent infrastructure, unlike the crumbling bridges in the U.S.. Try riding the Madrid metro or the AVE high speed train that guarantees on time arrival as it whisks you over 250 miles between major cities in just over two hours. Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy is studied and admired as a shining example, while it seems democracy is weaker every day here in the U.S.. The Spanish primer minister will be heading the European Union soon. Anyone who is ignorant of these facts (and unfortunately many others) is a danger in the White House. But unless the American voters see past the ignorance, I fear for the future.

This is really sad, but true. Let's hope Americans don't elect this ignorant person as our next president.

Just a note: Zapatero is not Spain's President. He is the President of the Spanish Government, which is the Spanish term for primer minister. Spain is a monarchy.

The Spainish: menace or threat?

Presidential candidate John McCain earlier this week identified a breach in America’s polyester security blanket: the unwanted advances of Spain. The U.S. Senator rebuffed efforts by Spainish Vice Minister José Luis Rodríguez Emilio Marcus Zapatero to initiate talks should McCain and Governor Palin prevail in the election.
According to Republican sources, Spain is a lumpy-looking country once part of the European landmass above Africa. Some 6000 years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Spain became entangled in the tectonic dinner plate movement and now sits uneasily just below Texas but solemnenly above Costa Rica.
McCain was asked if he would receive Zapatero – named after a popular style of Spainish shoes, – in the White House should he be elected. His replied, “I took fewer earmarks than my predecessor and never supported any bridge to anywhere. I’ll have to analyze our relationships, situations and priorities before I would establish closer relationships with our friends or enemies sans birth control and I will confront those who want to enter the United States illegally and hit them with my cane. Your mojo is bad, too."
The Spainish media believes that the Republican candidate, who claims extensive international diplomatic experience confused Spain, a member of NATO and proven ally in the fight against terrorism with Venezuentina or Perolivia in Latin America. The radio interviewer, baffled by the Senator’s answer reminded McCain that Spain once had rain on the plains when it was located in Europe.
Spain has a long, bloody history of oppression. As recently as 516 years ago Spain harbored Islamic extremist architects who built the Alhambra . In1492, Spainish explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Bermuda. Or Cuba. Or was it Aruba? Ask Governor Palin. Spainish galleons transported precious cargo from Newish World back to Spain. The Spainish inquisition nearly gained a foothold in New Orleans around 1774, which would have been, like, pretty lame.
Spainish people can have darker skin, bushy eyebrows and melodious voices, all signs of terrorist inbreeding according to sources in the U.S. State Department. They often loiter in dark caves, gorging on solidified rotten milk, fermented grape juice and dried swine leg.
As the Spainish newspaper El País remarked, "Even if Spain is guilty of harboring WMD’s McCain’s answer demonstrates a shocking loss of bone density." On Thursday, the mood at another Spainish newspaper named UnoDosTres was sulky when it lamented that "the frigid Alaskan air mass between the U.S. and Spain could continue if the John McCain reaches the Casa de Blanco."
Vice Minister Zapatero is taking the latest American attack on his ego calmly. McCain may not know who Spain's leader is, Zapatero mused, but he promised that the Spainish people would be cool with the new Administration "as long as it’s not the wobbly old bozo and his big-hair senora.”

Well, to start with, Spain did not kill the population in the Americas. The anglos did. If you go to North America you will hardly see a Native American. Now if you go to Mexico or Peru you will see that most of the population is either Native or mixed ( forget all that nonsense about the cruel conquistadores). In South America the Spaniards created universities in the XVI century where Indians were allowed to study....compare that with the situation of the Native North Americans confined to reservations or exterminated by the angloamericans.

As to Spain today, well, it is the 8th largest world economy, the 6th largest world investor, the second largest investor in Latin America and the 4th in the US ( OCDE statistics). Its language and culture is shared by more than 400 million people...and like it or not there are more than 40 million Hispanics in the US. Is not that important for a would be US president something about Spain?

Por favor, que nadie le diga al Mr. McCain donde estamos situados geográficamente, es preferible. Gracias

I think the press has been too harsh on McCain's diplomatic war with Spain. He still hasn't gotten over his boyhood trauam when he read about the sinking of the USS Maine in the Havana harbor.

All I know is that we are in deep caca. If our leaders don't know the other countries politicians and their history. I think we are in big problems. We need to make sure to give them some world history class before they even go to The White House.

The problem is the confusion that exists between whites with Spanish, as Latin, and so on. Spain was a great empire that conquered America and took possessions from Vancouver Island (Nootka) to Patagonia, among many other places in the world. Hence the Iberian or Hispanic heritage that exists in America, if they were the French now speak French. When I see a Sioux or Cheyenne do not think that is English but a Native American, why not true when it is a Mayan, Aztec, Guarani ,...? Madrid, capital of Spain, is the same latitude as New York, (a girl from California was surprised to discover the fall of Madrid ) we are Europeans like the French and American independence to help when our troops cleared of English throughout the southeastern U.S.. Why all these historical oversights? On another occasion a few Americans in Madrid told me that they had been surprised to see that the Spaniards we were white, again we are confused with Native Americans. I would like to improve education about the reality of Spain in the wonderful country that is USA.
And as Latin is a Spanish as an English, indeed the best of Anglo agreed to a much lesser degree and the time the Roman invasion that Celtiberians (which is equivalent to the Spanish and Portuguese for the Anglo-Saxon England). And least of all Latino is a native of America, please review the concepts.

LOL, It does not surprise me at all, I was an exchange student 12 years ago at New Jersey, and a great bunch of my high school fellows, thought Spain was somewhere between Mexico and Dragon`s land.
Well, i guess you can forget that over 500 years ago we colonized America from South Argentina to North of Oregon (killing all native americans)..but that`s just history...and who cares about that, More over, a fellow asked me Can you really see the moon? How come if you haven`t been there?