Okay, this just weird – apparently John McCain was interviewed on a Spanish-language news program the other day, and refused to commit to meeting with the Prime Minister of Spain.

Take a listen (starting at 2:58).

It’s a really bizarre exchange. And the conclusion that Josh Marshall reaches is too unsettling to contemplate:

John McCain either doesn’t know who the Prime Minister of Spain is, thinks Spain is a country in Latin America, or possibly both.

To be honest though, I’d actually be more comfortable with the next president of the United States being that clueless than the alternative. McCain foreign policy adviser and lunatic superhawk Randy Scheunemann is now claiming that McCain was fully aware of what the interviewer was talking about and declined to commit to meeting with the Spanish prime minister anyway.

In other words, the McCain campaign wants us to believe that they’re so paranoid and isolationist that McCain might actually refuse to meet with another member of NATO.

And to make things worse, in the official statement, Scheunemann refers to PM Zapatero as President Zapatero. That’s not an interview gaffe. That’s a prepared statement.

Maybe I’ve been too hard on Sarah Palin. I’m starting to suspect that she and McCain have comparable foreign policy expertise after all.