I agree with the prevailing interpretation of McCain's Spanish interview, though I thought McCain seemed even more out of it than reported. Listening near the end of the interview, it seemed to me that McCain scarcely heard the interviewer trying to redirect him to Europe. The needle had gotten stuck on Latin America.  In their next to last exchange you can hear him quite clearly finishing, ". . . the importance of our relationship with Latin America"--even though the original question had directly been whether he would invite Zapatero to the White House. The interviewer tries again, by asking about explicitly about Europe (as distinct from Latin America), but it sounds like McCain is in a hurry to end the interview, and repeats a boilerplate piece of his earlier answer about being ready to meet with our friends and stand up to those who aren't friendly. I would be hard pressed to say what question he thought he was answering. More than a little disturbing.