Poor old John McCain! It's hard enough running for president every day without having to remember the names of countries and junk.

Like earlier today when he forgot -- again -- that there hasn't been a country by the name of Czechoslovakia in 15 years.

Nitpicking? Well, he IS running on his foreign policy cred... such as it is.

Maybe a little vacation in the Dakota Territory will help him relax.

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Crap like this and the Iran/Al Queda slip are probably the biggest reasons I'm nervous about voting for McCain.

Then I wouldn't if I were you.

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My voting woes deepen.....

The guy who's foreign policy I disagree with VS. The guy who's geography sucks.

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Most people probably don't even know that there ever was a county named Czechoslovakia.

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McCain's Brain Farts. again. and again. Whats up with this old man
Might be worth tracking to see if he really is umm.. losing it.
What do you guys think, is McGrampa's memory loss an issue?

The sunni shiite swap, mixing up the football teams from his torture story, etc. now this:



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Note to McCain: Czechoslovakia doesn’t exist anymore


This is almost certainly going to sound nitpicky, if not actually petty, but bear with me. It’s not unreasonable to note that John McCain continues to make references to a country that doesn’t exist. At a press conference in Phoenix today, for example, McCain referenced Czechoslovakia. Again.

“I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Apparently that is in reaction to the Czech’s agreement with us concerning missile defense, and again some of the Russian now announcement they are now retargeting new targets, something they abandoned at the end of the Cold War, is also a concern. So we see the tensions between Russia and their neighbors, as well as Russia and the United States are somewhat increasing.”

On first blush, this sounds like more antagonistic rhetoric towards Russia — which McCain wants to kick out of the G8 — which isn’t especially helpful. But more importantly, Russia can’t “reduce energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.” Czechoslovakia, of course, doesn’t exist. It split into two countries more than 15 years ago. McCain has actually been to the Czech Republic and Slovakia since they became independent countries, and he’s met with their leaders.

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McCain is useless without Lieberman proping him up from the back like some Charley McCarthy doll.

Whispering in his ear "you mean Shia don't you?"

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Czech Republic
Slovak Republic

Two different countries.

It isn't that hard to comprehend.

This is actually my major issue with the guy. Either he misspeaks a lot, isn't up to date, or just doesn't know about a number of things he really should.

Of course I don't know if Obama has any better idea for these things. He doesn't really talk about this stuff.

But it is really worrying with McCain...