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On Monday Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) mentioned Czechoslovakia, a country that was disbanded 15 years ago into two nation. Today he repeated the same mistake again when he blamed Russia for Czechoslovakia’s energy problems.
Czechoslovakia was dissolved in 1993 and split into Czech Republic and Slovakia, both of which are member states in the European Union. John McCain made an error yesterday when he blamed the Russian government for reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Russia has stopped oil supplies as an indirect protest for the Czech Republic’s support for the U.S. missile defense system.
The McCain campaign may call it as “slip of the tongue”. They even scrubbed the transcript of the event in McCain’s blog.
Republicans will point out Obama also makes mistakes. But McCain repeats the mistake again for the second time at a town hall meeting Tuesday. He mentioned Czechoslovakia again and said the following (shown in the video):
And I regret that and I regret some of the recent behavior that Russia has exhibited in I’ll be glad to talk about that later on including reduction in oil supplies to Czechoslovakia when they agreed with us on a missile defense system.
Thinkprogress points out McCain has repeated this mistake few more times in the past in 1994 and in 1999. The last time he made that mistake, the critic was none other than the George W. Bush.
Bush criticized McCain for making the “Czechoslovakia” mistake and the media giving too much preference for McCain. He told the U.S. News & World Report: “I don’t think there is any plot; I hope there isn’t…But it’s an amazing phenomenon, I’ll tell you that. It’s like the flap over the foreign-leader deal. A guy gets up and quizzes me — it’s my fault for trying to answer — but John McCain says something about the ‘ambassador to Czechoslovakia.’ Well, I know there is no Czechoslovakia (there’s a Czech Republic and a Slovakia), but yet it didn’t make the nightly national news. I’m not going to gripe about it, but the media question is starting to pop up.”
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O.K. I know that the Cons get snarky whenever someone mentions the fact that McLame is too out of it to have even bothered with the digital revolution in the last decade or so but when a man spends as much time as he does touting all his "foreign policy experience" doesn't even have a clue that a country he is talking about disappeared from the map a decade and a half ago one has to wonder if the man is fit to even hold his current job, much less aspire to the highest office in the land.
This nation has already tried dumb and disconnected and look where it got us. It is time to elect someone who is playing with a full deck, for a change.
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Today he repeated the same mistake again when he blamed Russia for Czechoslovakia’s energy problems.
At least he knew to blame Russia rather than the USSR :) -
Maybe there's still a Czechoslovakia in McCain's mind .... he is 70 odd thousand years old, you know.
I'm really beginning to wonder how my neighbours to the south will choose between Beevis and Butthead in November.
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Seems like the U.S. could be in BIG trouble.
One candidate doesn't know how many states there are in the U.S .,"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
The other can't remember that Czechoslovakia is no more.
Yep seems like we have a lot to look forward to how many more blunders the candidates will make before we have to decide which will be our next president. sigh -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
That is hilarious. -
@Mums
That's the snippet I was looking for a few days ago!!! Maybe Obama was including Canada (less NF) in his calculations .... even we don't include the "Rock" all the time .... ;P
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@ Sykos Masters
@Mums
That's the snippet I was looking for a few days ago!!! Maybe Obama was including Canada (less NF) in his calculations .... even we don't include the "Rock" all the time .... ;P
He might be planning to take over Canada and Mexico but that still won't get him to 57.
Makes one wonder just what he is planning to do. :) -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
Seems like the U.S. could be in BIG trouble.
One candidate doesn't know how many states there are in the U.SThe other can't remember that Czechoslovakia is no more.
Yep seems like we have a lot to look forward to how many more blunders the candidates will make before we have to decide which will be our next president. sigh
And you don't think that a man who is as good at thinking, and talking on his feet as Obama wasn't making a joke?
McLame still doesn't know how much a gallon of gas costs and his top economic adviser, Phil Graham, thinks that the economic woe the rest of us see all around us is only a figment of our imaginations.
After all, he's rich and doesn't know anyone who is hurting so the rest of us can just quit our "whining." -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
He might be planning to take over Canada and Mexico but that still won't get him to 57.
Makes one wonder just what he is planning to do. :)
Well if you count 8 provinces (take out NF and PQ) that would make the 57 (with 1 to go that he said). Some people just won't accept the results of 1812 ... lol
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@ Sykos Masters
Maybe there's still a Czechoslovakia in McCain's mind .... he is 70 odd thousand years old, you know.
I'm really beginning to wonder how my neighbours to the south will choose between Beevis and Butthead in November.
LOL! It's certainly disheartening to know that these politicians don't know squat about history...let alone the facts that fall out of their mouths! -
@ lensman67
And you don't think that a man who is as good at thinking, and talking on his feet as Obama wasn't making a joke?
McLame still doesn't know how much a gallon of gas costs and his top economic adviser, Phil Graham, thinks that the economic woe the rest of us see all around us is only a figment of our imaginations.
After all, he's rich and doesn't know anyone who is hurting so the rest of us can just quit our "whining."
No I really don't think he was joking.
But I do realize that when you have to talk as much as they both do you can have a lapse in memory and misspeak sometimes.
Your last two points are valid. The politicians need to realize that most of the citizens in the U.S. are not rich folks.
If they think the economic woes are a figment of our imaginations they need to see the real world.
How many here in Michigan have lost and are continuing to lose their jobs and their homes is staggering and devastating.
I was out with a group of ladies and one young lady with three boys doesn't know if her husband will be losing his job with Ford Motor Company in the next few weeks.
They are one family but how many others are there with the same story? -
@ Deb, Sykos and Lensman
I really think that Lensman needs to apply to teach both candidates some history lessons. :)
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@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
@ Deb, Sykos and Lensman
I really think that Lensman needs to apply to teach both candidates some history lessons. :)
...and not to mention bible lessons. -
Hahaha, maybe if he knew how to use a computer he would be able to figure these sorts of things out...
I wonder if he'll nest blame the Ottoman empire for high gas prices...
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@ 666divine
...and not to mention bible lessons.
Actually I was not belittling Lensman I was serious in knowing he could give them some much needed lessons on history. :) -
Just a nitpicking point.....He doesn't even pronounce it right :)
In the video he says "Check-la-so-vakia" instead of "Check-o-slo-vakia"
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@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
@ Deb, Sykos and Lensman
I really think that Lensman needs to apply to teach both candidates some history lessons. :)
Well, someone needs to...these mess-ups are hurting these politicians horribly! -
@ Chris Hogg
Just a nitpicking point.....He doesn't even pronounce it right :)
In the video he says "Check-la-so-vakia" instead of "Check-o-slo-vakia"
Well some people don't even know how to pronounce "about"
Just kidding, just kidding. :) -
@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
Well, someone needs to...these mess-ups are hurting these politicians horribly!
I agree Deb and with so many mess-ups it makes one wonder who does know what is going on. -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
Well some people don't even know how to pronounce "about"
Just kidding, just kidding. :)
LOL. I don't know what you're talking A-BOOT. -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
Actually I was not belittling Lensman I was serious in knowing he could give them some much needed lessons on history. :)
I wasn't belittling him either. -
@ 666divine
I wasn't belittling him either.
Hey. My ears are burning. Is someone talking about little old me? ;o) -
@ lensman67
Hey. My ears are burning. Is someone talking about little old me? ;o)
Nope. But now that you've mentioned it, I'm glad that you haven't "let those bastards grind you down!" -
@ 666divine
Nope. But now that you've mentioned it, I'm glad that you haven't "let those bastards grind you down!"
Illegitimis nil carborundum ;o) -
@ 666divine
Nope. But now that you've mentioned it, I'm glad that you haven't "let those bastards grind you down!"
And 66 who exactly are "those bastards?" LOL -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
And 66 who exactly are "those bastards?" LOL
Oh, no one you would know. But this heat's getting to me. Any cooler south of the border? -
@ 666divine
Oh, no one you would know. But this heat's getting to me. Any cooler south of the border?
Probably not here in Michigan where I am.
90 today and 91 tomorrow and Friday. -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
Probably not here in Michigan where I am.
90 today and 91 tomorrow and Friday.
Ditto here in NY! -
@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
Ditto here in NY!
It's supposed to "cool" down to 86 Sat. The day of my granddaughter's wedding. -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
It's supposed to "cool" down to 86 Sat. The day of my granddaughter's wedding.
That would be nice for you then if it does cool down...and make it a beautiful day for a wedding! -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
Well some people don't even know how to pronounce "about"
Just kidding, just kidding. :)
It's pronounced a-boot!!!! -
@ Chris Hogg
Just a nitpicking point.....He doesn't even pronounce it right :)
In the video he says "Check-la-so-vakia" instead of "Check-o-slo-vakia"
lol ... what really gets me aboot this is that one can assume McCain had his speech prepared for him. Therefore, it's likely that Czech Republic was in the speech, yet he decided to "read" what he thought was there. Perhaps the U.S. is the only republic for the senator. -
@ Sykos Masters
It's pronounced a-boot!!!!
Sorry Sykos and you folks north of the border a-boot is something that I wear in the winter when it is cold and there is snow on the ground. :) -
@ Cynthia T. [Picasso]
Sorry Sykos and you folks north of the border a-boot is something that I wear in the winter when it is cold and there is snow on the ground. :)
Hmmm ..... you mean winter foot-wear? *ducking and running* -
@ Sykos Masters
Hmmm ..... you mean winter foot-wear? *ducking and running*
You can call BOOTS what ever you care to son, but Mums and the people where she lives calls them boots. Winter foot-wear? How weird can you folks get. LOL Add a Comment
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For the second day in a row, McCain cites the non-existent 'Czechoslovakia'
