“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.”
That’s Firedoglake quoting none other than Governor George W. Bush in 2000. The subject comes up because twice in the past two days Senator McCain has referred to Czechoslovakia — a country that ceased to exist more than 15 years ago.
When even Bush knows you’re wrong — and it’s eight years later and you’re still wrong — there is something amiss. McCain’s own memoir, Faith of My Fathers, has a chapter “Fifth from the Bottom.” It refers to his class rank at the Naval Academy — 894th out of 899.
Do we want a president even more ignert than Bush?