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Gary Johnson: What is Allepo?

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I just saw Gary Johnson give an interview on Morning Joe and in responding to a question about Aleppo....he said, "What is Aleppo?" :shock:

Mica, Joe, the entire panel are absolutely horrified....they're literally stunned almost speechless by his answer...and this is after they had just been bashing Trump's ignorance on foreign policy for over an hour. I think that might be the end of Gary...and Mitt had just endorsed him like yesterday, too. This election is so fricken surreal...I have to ask...WTF did we the people do to deserve such gawd awful candidates???
 
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Moot said:
I just saw Gary Johnson give an interview on Morning Joe and in responding to a question about Aleppo....he said, "What is Aleppo?" :shock:

Mica, Joe, the entire panel are absolutely horrified....they're literally stunned almost speechless at his answer...and this is after they had just been bashing Trump's ignorance on foreign police for over an hour. This election is soooo surreal.
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I hear Hillary's got lung aleppo.
 
Moot said:
I just saw Gary Johnson give an interview on Morning Joe and in responding to a question about Aleppo....he said, "What is Aleppo?" :shock:

Mica, Joe, the entire panel are absolutely horrified....they're literally stunned almost speechless by his answer...and this is after they had just been bashing Trump's ignorance on foreign policy for over an hour. I think that might be the end of Gary...and Mitt had just endorsed him like yesterday, too. This election is so fricken surreal...I have to ask...WTF did we the people do to deserve such gawd awful candidates???
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#WhatisAleppo? Is trending on Twitter. :lol:
 
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian presidential candidate, does not know what Aleppo is.

Asked on Wednesday's "Morning Joe" what he would do if elected president about the city in Syria at the center of the refugee crisis, Johnson earnestly asked what Aleppo is even.

"And what is Aleppo?" Johnson said.

"You're kidding me," Mike Barnicle responded, who asked the question. Barnicle then began to explain what Aleppo is to the candidate.

"OK, got it, got it," Johnson cut him off, and then added, "With regard to Syria I do think it's a mess. I think that the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end."

"It's just a mess," he said.
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So he got it rather quickly and went on to answer. How much as Aleppo been in the news? The other day, right? A presidential candidate should be up to par on the breaking news, but it doesn't seem like this was such the flub. He asked about it, then seemed to remember, then answered the question.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Probability that most of anyone tweeting, that knows where Aleppo is and anything about this place, about 0.
Just saying.
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Yeah. They're probably all like "Isn't Aleppo that small village in Kazakhstan?
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Probability that most of anyone tweeting, that knows where Aleppo is and anything about this place, about 0.
Just saying.
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Very likely true, people probably jumped on it thinking it had something to do with dog food.
 
TheGoverness said:
Yeah. They're probably all like "Isn't Aleppo that small village in Kazakhstan?
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To even further that.
Kazakha what? would be the next response.

That part of the world is not particularly well known by most of anyone.
So while it's kinda fun to dig at Gary for it, I highly doubt most folks know much about the area, nor does it really matter, even if he were president.
 
Moot said:
I just saw Gary Johnson give an interview on Morning Joe and in responding to a question about Aleppo....he said, "What is Aleppo?" :shock:

Mica, Joe, the entire panel are absolutely horrified....they're literally stunned almost speechless by his answer...and this is after they had just been bashing Trump's ignorance on foreign policy for over an hour. I think that might be the end of Gary...and Mitt had just endorsed him like yesterday, too. This election is so fricken surreal...I have to ask...WTF did we the people do to deserve such gawd awful candidates???
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We should all be worried about this election, for a series of reasons.
 
Ikari said:
Very likely true, people probably jumped on it thinking it had something to do with dog food.
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Aleppo's that small country next to Liberia off of the coast of Brazil. ;)
 
Ikari said:
So he got it rather quickly and went on to answer. How much as Aleppo been in the news? The other day, right? A presidential candidate should be up to par on the breaking news, but it doesn't seem like this was such the flub. He asked about it, then seemed to remember, then answered the question.
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One of the marks of a good leader is knowing that when you don't know the question, you find it out before blurting out an answer. Other candidates might have said their dog eats it every day, or like some recent leaders, state that they are not familiar with the situation, but ----.

And no, I'm not a Johnson fan.
 
jimbo said:
One of the marks of a good leader is knowing that when you don't know the question, you find it out before blurting out an answer. Other candidates might have said their dog eats it every day, or like some recent leaders, state that they are not familiar with the situation, but ----.

And no, I'm not a Johnson fan.
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Mostly I think this is being overblown because it's Johnson, and the press needs to cast him in as negative a light as possible. If one of the main candidates had done it, it would have been a flub, a gaffe, but we wouldn't be talking about it "ending" their political run. And still...if this is the worst thing he's done, he's still leagues ahead of Trump and Clinton.
 
Ikari said:
So he got it rather quickly and went on to answer. How much as Aleppo been in the news? The other day, right? A presidential candidate should be up to par on the breaking news, but it doesn't seem like this was such the flub. He asked about it, then seemed to remember, then answered the question.
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Someone showed another interview of Gary on an iPhone talking like Miss Teen "such and such" North Carolina.

It doesn't seem like any of the candidates are doing their homework. Trump and Gary don't seem have an interest or even a curiosity in foreign policy enough to even pick up a book about it. Someone should ask them what books and newspapers they read. Call me crazy...but I want a president that is smarter than me.
 
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Someone showed another interview of Gary on an iPhone talking like, like, such as such and such...Miss Teen North Carolina.

It doesn't seem like any of the candidates are doing their homework. Trump and Gary don't seem have an interest or even a curiosity in foreign policy enough to even pick up a book about it. Someone should ask them what books and newspapers they read. Call me crazy...but I want a president that is smarter than me.
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Oh, an iPhone video huh. I'm sure that's convincing and certainly shows that Gary is incapable of being an elected executive. Oh wait...he was governor of NM.

So what do you have, a small gaffe quickly corrected, a claim that he was talking like a valley girl...that's it. At least he wasn't sending confidential e-mails through private servers.

So again...that's the worst you have, then he's leagues ahead of Hillary and Trump. And you want someone smarter than you as President? That restriction is already met, it would appear.
 
Moot said:
I just saw Gary Johnson give an interview on Morning Joe and in responding to a question about Aleppo....he said, "What is Aleppo?" :shock:

Mica, Joe, the entire panel are absolutely horrified....they're literally stunned almost speechless by his answer...and this is after they had just been bashing Trump's ignorance on foreign policy for over an hour. I think that might be the end of Gary...and Mitt had just endorsed him like yesterday, too. This election is so fricken surreal...I have to ask...WTF did we the people do to deserve such gawd awful candidates???
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Right. Anyone who doesn't know everything about everything shouldnt run for office.
 
TheGoverness said:
I don't know, you'll have to ask the Pope of Uzbekistan when you get there.
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I love the Pope of Utz-n'-pans. He always hands out chips and kitchenware to the poor.
 
Fletch said:
Right. Anyone who doesn't know everything about everything shouldnt run for office.
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They should play family trivia during the debates to see what they all know.

"Hillary! Name one country to the east of Lesotho. You have 30 seconds!"
 
TheGoverness said:
They should play family trivia during the debates to see what they all know.

"Hillary! Name one country to the east of Lesotho. You have 30 seconds!"
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Well Hillary is the smartest candidate ever, she would never mess something up like an obscure name of some town no one has ever heard of until yesterday. I mean, it's not like she's under FBI investigation for all her shady ass deals. No sir. But Johnson, not immediately getting Allepo, but then talking intelligently about our interactions in Syria...man that is so unpresidential.

I heard he talks like a valley girl and has cats.
 
Moot said:
I just saw Gary Johnson give an interview on Morning Joe and in responding to a question about Aleppo....he said, "What is Aleppo?" :shock:

Mica, Joe, the entire panel are absolutely horrified....they're literally stunned almost speechless by his answer...and this is after they had just been bashing Trump's ignorance on foreign policy for over an hour. I think that might be the end of Gary...and Mitt had just endorsed him like yesterday, too. This election is so fricken surreal...I have to ask...WTF did we the people do to deserve such gawd awful candidates???
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I suspect most American have no idea what the hell Aleppo is, and I know they'd never find it on a map unless Google showed them where to look.
 
Ikari said:
Well Hillary is the smartest candidate ever, she would never mess something up like an obscure name of some town no one has ever heard of until yesterday. I mean, it's not like she's under FBI investigation for all her shady ass deals. No sir. But Johnson, not immediately getting Allepo, but then talking intelligently about our interactions in Syria...man that is so unpresidential.
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People have been talking about Aleppo for a while now though.....

And by people I mean people who have actually been paying close attention. All nine of them. :mrgreen:
 
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