SHOCK! Czechoslovakia Energy Supplies Reduced to ZERO!
Posted by Michael Link on July 14, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Maybe because it doesn't exist anymore.
TPM Election Central has the story:
At his press avail today, John McCain referenced current relations between Russia and, um, a non-existent country. From a transcript..."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."
Here's a roundup of his repeated mistakes on this point:
- 2008: On “Imus in the Morning," John McCain said he "would work closely with Czechoslovakia and Poland and other countries.”
- 2007: During a Republican debate, McCain said the "first thing he would do" is to "make sure that we have a missile defense system in place in Czechoslovakia and Poland," adding "I don’t care what his objections are to it.” Apparently he doesn't care if the objection is due to lack of existance.
- 1999: At an awards dinner, he thanked an ambassador from "Czechoslovakia."
- 1994: On CNN, McCain said: “I think there’s several things that should happen, foremost, in my view, is let’s move forward with the expansion of NATO into countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...”
- 1994: On NPR: “Nations that would meet that criteria fairly easily would be Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and I don’t believe that the Russians should view that as a threat.”
Just how bad is it? So bad that George W. Bush, not exactly gaffe-free himself, mocked McCain for it. Bush told U.S. News & World Reports: “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.”
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