I’m not going to get into the whole ‘was he confused’ debate regarding John McCain’s rather lukewarm sentiments for Spain and its PM Jose Luis Zapatero. I will merely link to this article on Guardian and point out my favourite paragraph.
So, to clarify matters for McCain: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is the lefty prime minister of Spain. The Zapatistas are armed revolutionaries who have declared war on the government of Mexico. Zippy is an irascible non-human character in the children’s TV series Rainbow, and Captain Zep was the star of an awesome 1980s British children’s sci-fi drama. Franco Zeffirelli is a celebrated Italian film director who I once pretended to know the first thing about in order not to look stupid in a conversation in a restaurant.