Being born in Czechoslovakia, I have to comment on this. Today at a press conference, presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain made the following comment:

I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Apparently that is in reaction to the Czech’s agreement with us concerning missile defense …

Source: Politico.com

The problem is that Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed since January 1, 1993, when it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He also referred to Czechoslovakia in a debate last year in October.

Source: Wikipedia

I personally don’t have a problem with mistakes like this, because they are just that … mistakes. Is this the result of McCain’s lack of knowledge of the region, or the people who write and research his speeches?

There should be a quality assurance team working with McCain to prevent things like this from happening, or educate him to prevent it from occurring in future speeches.

This makes for great entertainment by the press and it takes people away from focusing on what the candidate stands for and what they want to do for their country.

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