The spectre of the dreaded spainiard returns…
I thought he got confused… turns out he just wants war with everybody…
Senator, finally, let’s talk about Spain. Would you be willing to invite president Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to the White House? To meet with you?
I would be willing to meet with those leaders who our friends and want to work with us in a cooperative fashion. And by the way, president Calderón of Mexico is fighting a very tough fight against the drug cartels, and I am glad we are now working in cooperation with the Mexican government on the Mérida plan, and I intend to move forward with relations and invite as many of them as I can of those leaders to the White House.
Would that invitation be extended to the Zapatero government? To the president himself?
You know, honestly, I have to look at the relations and the situations and the priorities, but I can assure you, I will establish closer relations with our friends, and I will stand up to those who want to do harm to the United States of America. I know how to do both.
Perhaps he thought it was in reference to the Zapatistas? Why he wants to hate on Sub-Commandante Marcos, I’m not sure, because the dude is pretty cool. Not many people can pull off the pipe and balaclava combo. His campaign then decided to weigh in on what should have been a ‘funny senior moment’…
If elected, he will meet with a wide range of allies in a wide variety of venues but is not going to spell out scheduling and meeting location specifics in advance. He also is not going to make reckless promises to meet America’s adversaries. It’s called keeping your options open, unlike Senator Obama, who has publicly committed to meeting some of the world’s worst dictators unconditionally in his first year in office. - Randy Scheunemann
That dude is his foreign policy advisor. You literally cannot make shit like this up. Meeting with Zapatero is now a ‘reckless meeting with America’s adversaries’? They’re in NATO, they have troops deployed in Afghanistan. Can this guy even find Spain on a map!?!
Upgrading the ‘Do Whatever the Fuck We Want’ doctrine to ‘You’re All Pussies, Come Get Some’, truly a shining moment in American foreign diplomacy.
Fiddlin' while the Republic burns, Man in a box