I don't belong to or identify with any particular party. And I used to really like McCain (would probably have voted for him in 2000 had he gotten the nomination then). But I think it's perfectly legitimate to point out in what ways Senator McCain is displaying ignorance or more than the normal amount of forgetfulness, or cluelessness about the world. He is running for president, after all. Or does he expect to be coddled?

We've had too many years of presidents who were not fully functioning upstairs. That's something we definitely need to change.

In this particular case, he is right, but we don't know if that's because he actually knew what he was talking about. I agree, though, that by itself, it isn't all that important. Taken with his many other incidents of cluelessness, though, it could be taken as a part of a broader, troubling pattern, if it could be clearly shown that he was thinking of Latin America when he tried to answer the question. Which at this point, it apparently hasn't been.