GASP! McCain has Latin American experience because of his fling 50 years ago with Brazilian beauty

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/03/mccain-latin-america-fling/


Adviser: McCain has Latin American experience because of his fling 50 years ago with Brazilian beauty queen.»


At an Americas Conference panel discussion today, McCain adviser Richard Fontaine argued that Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) affair 50 years ago with former Brazilian beauty queen Maria Gracinda Teixeira de Jesus illustrated “the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms”:

”Talking a little about his personal experience, he was famously born in Panama and has traveled all over the hemisphere for many years.” Fontaine said. “In fact, I saw, I guess it was last week, that his old girlfriend in Brazil has been found from his early days when he was in the Navy and was interviewed. She’s a somewhat older woman now than she was then, but it sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms.”

Asked afterwards if he was suggesting that the fling “counted as Latin America foreign policy experience,” Fontaine responded, “‘The only thing I was trying to convey was that his experience goes back a long way.” (HT: Ben Smith)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. No wonder he's for drilling.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. I wonder if McCain has a German Shepherd

That would shore up his expertise on Germany.

[old mark]

3. Read somewhere that he used to go to Rio

a lot to get laid.

He is a real piece of shit, even less qualified than GWB to be president.

mark

[galaxy21]

5. Eh, I'm not to bothered about rampant promiscuity (clinton and all)

Its everything else that bothers me.

[theothersnippywshrub]

4. "She’s a somewhat older woman now than she was then." You betcha!

Fontaine says "his old girlfriend in Brazil has been found." I wonder who was looking for her and why.