Here at Hey Obama Change This, we’re big fans of geography. And why not? How else are we supposed to perform up to par on that ridiculously addictive (and competitive) Facebook Travel IQ game?
It seems that not all of our presidential candidates are up to snuff, however. Here, Johnny Mac confuses Sudan with Somalia.
On the one hand, we can’t blame him that much (yes we can … get it?) They’re both in Africa, they’re both Muslim countries, they’re both struggling with questions of autonomous regions.
But differences remain. Sudan, for one, is in the process of ethnically cleansing Darfur; Somalia gunmen are committing acts of piracy of the Horn of Africa. Sudan has oil; Somalia has cheap AK’47’s.
Either McCain’s once again totally getting the facts wrong (see: McCain is actually pretty dumb about foreign policy but he was a Prisoner of War so therefore he automatically has national security credibility), or he just forgot. Neither bodes well for a potential McCain presidency.
Please, Obama, never misidentify a country, and while we’re at it, keep pronouncing them correctly.
