'What is Aleppo?': Gary Johnson bungles question about Syrian war

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[calinewarkwc69]

The video is even funnier, he gets this deer in the headlight look, lmao

(FOREVER MAD THESE WORK IN COMMENTS AND NOT POSTS)

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CRINGE

[eveofrevolution]

[amyura]

Germany?

[eveofrevolution]

[mareen]

Not being aware what the political importance of Aleppo is on a political discussion board is kind of sad.

[bnmc2005]

Exactly. You're not applying for that job, he is. He is responsible for knowing these things and keeping abreast of the latest issues.

[yamamanama]

This city, formerly Syria's largest, was hard-hit by the civil war.

[bnmc2005]

Seeing tweets and rationalizations that "I didn't know what it was" or "half the people attacking him didn't know what Aleppo is either" is ludicrous and infuriating. I'm so sick of this idea that people want or need ELECTED LEADERS to be on the same knowledge or intelligence level with any random twit.

We should want to elect leaders who KNOW things that everyday citizens are not necessarily up to date or in the know about, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Politics, and the World theater.

Let's say a Math teacher is applying for a job, so he's giving a guest lecture. If he is up there scratching his head at the formula on the board, the last thing we'd want to hear someone say is "Well 1/2 the students didn't know the answer either!" For fuck's sake.

THIS IS THE DAMN JOB. It's their job. It's their ONE damn JOB.

[amw]

I so fucking agree it's not funny. On the other hand. When it comes to the current Libertarian party, not to mention the Greens and the Trumpublicans, non-interventionism is gospel. So why should they care about a city in a pissant little war-torn country on the other side of the planet that has no money and nothing to trade?

In my opinion, this kind of ignorance is just another reason why the only candidate worth considering this time round is Hillary Clinton. You can be right-wing, left-wing, whatever, and still believe that interacting with and caring about human beings all over the planet is important. In fact, that's exactly what I expect a head-of-state to consider, since domestic concerns are better handled by the local and state representatives. Sadly the current populist trend in America appears to be isolationist navel-gazing, even at the federal level. Oh well.

[amw]

Before I get jumped on, I should add that generally I disagree with Hillary Clinton's foreign policy. In particular her position on Palestine. But she appears to be the only candidate from the four major parties who has any kind of interest in engaging the world outside of America in a serious way this time around, and speaking as someone who is a citizen of the world outside of America, that's quite important to me.

[nesmith]

ia. I'm not thrilled with her either in several areas, but at least the woman can talk like she has more than two working brain cells to rub together. Every time Trump speaks I feel like half my neurons shut down.

[blackjedii]

Ehh Am willing to bet he was not given briefings as much as the other two and his statement at least acknowledged ge dun goofed and how he intended to fix it

That was probably the least cringeworthy thing on Morning Joe today

[blackjedii]

Whixh ftr I really dgaf about Gary Johnson. But given that the question was phrased as Aleppo and not Syria as well as that the hosts were perfectly happy ro slather all over Trumps tiny little dingdong when he waa giving them attention I think there is a bigger fish to fry.