Gary Johnson doesn't know what the Syrian city Aleppo is

[IGotWorms 4,060]

I find it utterly hilarious that everyone is going to lambast Johnson for this flub...

 

Yet the New York Times made not one...but TWO mistakes about the city as well (scroll to the bottom).

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/politics/gary-johnson-aleppo.html?_r=1

 

(screenshot as well here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr2A6z7VIAAIdl4.png)

Yikes, grasping at straws here

[IGotWorms 4,060]

This not Dan Quails Potato-gate scandal. No one has heard of the town of Aleppo.

That's because you aren't curious about what's going on in the world. You don't give a fock. Which is fine, but anyone who wants to be president should be in a different realm

[drobeski 3,061]

He's a doofus

[giraldi02 476]

Yikes, grasping at straws here

In what regards?

 

The fact that a major news outlet writes an article criticizing someone's lack of knowledge about a city, and then having multiple errors themselves? Seems pretty relevant to the state of Americans.

 

This is faux outrage at its finest in order to remove the legitimacy of a third party candidate.

 

Maybe, and that's an extreme maybe, one or two people on this entire bored knew this city existed. MAYBE.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,583]

In what regards?

 

The fact that a major news outlet writes an article criticizing someone's lack of knowledge about a city, and then having multiple errors themselves? Seems pretty relevant to the state of Americans.

 

This is faux outrage at its finest in order to remove the legitimacy of a third party candidate.

 

Maybe, and that's an extreme maybe, one or two people on this entire bored knew this city existed. MAYBE.

I didn't. I just wish it didn't exist, like the rest of the ME. The whole region brings nothing to the table but some oil. I just wish they would stay there with their horrible religion and ugly women and smell.

[Strike 5,748]

To me, domestic policy is probably more important. I wonder what he would have said if he was asked how many states there are in the United States. 58?

 

[Sho Nuff 720]

Yeah...a misstatement is the exact same thing. That will definitely live on as other gaffes by politicians have though.

[giraldi02 476]

Yeah...a misstatement is the exact same thing. That will definitely live on as other gaffes by politicians have though.

 

Oh it'll stick with him for quite some time, and you can damn sure bet that if he ever sniffed a debate stage that would present itself in a cynical fashion.

 

I personally feel like the criticism stems from both sides, Republicans and Democrats, thinking removing legitimacy from him will help retain sheep to their respective party, and justifiably so. But as has been brought up in these threads, I think it's still unclear whether there's a particular political affiliation that is more leaning towards him.

 

You'd think it be the Republicans...but who the fock knows anymore. I'm more left than right on a lot of issues and support him with the exception of his support of trade agreements. I'll probably still vote for the guy...unless I just decide to go with my gut and write in Bernie to say fock the system.

[Brad GLuckman 519]

I disagee with those saying this is equal to Obama's 57 state comment or to those who think nobody where Aleppo is.

 

Obama's 57 state comment was an obvious gaffe. Nobody, not even on this bored, believes Obama thought there were 57 states. Gary Johnson legitimately had never heard of Aleppo. He even tweeted as such afterwards (although I credit him for that). Anyone who has read about the Syrian crisis has at least heard of it, even if they dont know its significance. I would expect a Presidential candidate to know, and as a Johnson supporter am extremely disappointed he doesnt.

[tanatastic 2,062]

I just need the president to know about america and to hell with anything involving other places. If it aint asian, we dont need to deal with them so who cares. I dont know Aleppo from bucca di beppo.

[Thornton Melon 633]

Maybe, and that's an extreme maybe, one or two people on this entire bored knew this city existed. MAYBE.

 

Me and who else?

[iam90sbaby 2,659]

In what regards?

 

The fact that a major news outlet writes an article criticizing someone's lack of knowledge about a city, and then having multiple errors themselves? Seems pretty relevant to the state of Americans.

 

This is faux outrage at its finest in order to remove the legitimacy of a third party candidate.

 

Maybe, and that's an extreme maybe, one or two people on this entire bored knew this city existed. MAYBE.

Agreed.

 

And I also didn't know.

[kutulu 1,688]

Who?

[fandandy 3,313]

Is he Baghdad's son?

[Hardcore troubadour 15,583]

Didn't she get blown up after her and Michael got married? She started the car when she shouldn't have.

[Big Guy 1,416]

The guy's a goober anyway, needs to go away.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,583]

The guy's a goober anyway, needs to go away.

Many people are voting for him so they can deny voting for HRC and Trump. Cowardly.

[Big Guy 1,416]

Many people are voting for him so they can deny voting for HRC and Trump. Cowardly.

 

I don't understand any conservatives that would throw away a vote on him, seems quite selfish and illogical to me.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,583]

 

I don't understand any conservatives that would throw away a vote on him, seems quite selfish and illogical to me.

It's so they can claim the high ground no matter who wins. They are both going to be looked at as unworthy presidents, so in order to impress a low rent message board they get to say I didn't vote for him or her. It's weak, but these are weaklings. They want to sit and point instead of putting themselves in the game. They sit on their biscuit, amd don't want to risk it.

[wiffleball 4,793]

I find it utterly hilarious that everyone is going to lambast Johnson for this flub...

 

Yet the New York Times made not one...but TWO mistakes about the city as well (scroll to the bottom).

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/politics/gary-johnson-aleppo.html?_r=1

 

(screenshot as well here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr2A6z7VIAAIdl4.png)

Agree. If posters were honest, most of them wouldn't have known What or where Aleppo is either.The fact the New York Times Had time to fact-check and Google all of this and still f*** it up twice is a pretty good indication.

[Sho Nuff 720]

 

I don't understand any conservatives that would throw away a vote on him, seems quite selfish and illogical to me.

So you would rather vote for an orange idiot who isn't even a conservative?

[hoytdwow 202]

Meh

Forest/trees. An understanding of the Syrian conflict from a regional and geopolitical standpoint is what's important, not the names of individual cities or battles. The latter info is for advisors and generals to know.

[kutulu 1,688]

So you would rather vote for an orange idiot who isn't even a conservative?

newbie's running?

[posty 2,762]

So you would rather vote for an orange idiot who isn't even a conservative?

[IGotWorms 4,060]

 

I don't understand any conservatives that would throw away a vote on him, seems quite selfish and illogical to me.

Because some of them actually aren't focktards and cannot bring themselves to vote for Trump. HTH

[fandandy 3,313]

Because some of them actually aren't focktards and cannot bring themselves to vote for Trump. HTH

So, they'll choose a stoner instead and feel that they're taking the high road?

[IGotWorms 4,060]

Meh

Forest/trees. An understanding of the Syrian conflict from a regional and geopolitical standpoint is what's important, not the names of individual cities or battles. The latter info is for advisors and generals to know.

Again, not really true. Aleppo is the city where citizens are living under a blockade. They have little food and water and there's not much they can do about it. It's a huge humanitarian issue besides just the civil war

[hoytdwow 202]

. They have little food and water and there's not much they can do about it. It's a huge humanitarian issue besides just the civil war

There are many places in Syria like this.

[edjr 6,684]

Arpeggio? That was a product of Wall Data a company I worked for in 1998

[IGotWorms 4,060]

There are many places in Syria like this.

There are a lot of awful things happening in Africa but you still oughta what Darfur is

[Hardcore troubadour 15,583]

Again, not really true. Aleppo is the city where citizens are living under a blockade. They have little food and water and there's not much they can do about it. It's a huge humanitarian issue besides just the civil war

We should drone the shite out of them

[Reality 3,121]

Just further proof that people will always make excuses for "their guy", nothing more. The dude doesn't have a shot at being President, and from what I've seen and read, that's a good thing.

 

The Libertarians dropped the ball this year just like the other 2 parties did.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,583]

So, I'm assuming that HRC and Obama know all about it. What's the plan? It doesn't involve boots on the ground, ever, so I wonder what can be done?

[parrot 789]

Just further proof that people will always make excuses for "their guy", nothing more. The dude doesn't have a shot at being President, and from what I've seen and read, that's a good thing.

 

The Libertarians dropped the ball this year just like the other 2 parties did.

 

What exactly have you "seen and read" beyond this that makes him a worse candidate than the 2 yutzes out front?

 

And yeah, he has no shot as you say, that's why some of us may not give many focks that he's not a big foreign policy wonk at this point. Maybe if there was a chance he was actually going to be the one called upon to deal with it, it might be a little more concerning. Then again, compared to Trump not knowing his bud Putin was in the Ukraine, not knowing the name of a Syrian city is pretty small potatoes.

[Reality 3,121]

 

What exactly have you "seen and read" beyond this that makes him a worse candidate than the 2 yutzes out front?

 

Plenty, there are videos all over the place. Don't get me wrong though, I didn't say he was worse..

 

It's ugly all the way around.

[Sho Nuff 720]

Just further proof that people will always make excuses for "their guy", nothing more. The dude doesn't have a shot at being President, and from what I've seen and read, that's a good thing.

 

The Libertarians dropped the ball this year just like the other 2 parties did.

 

Some will...this is a gaffe and its something he should know (as I said and even he said himself). But its way down the list of gaffes by candidates this year. Dropped the ball? Not as much. Not sure who else they could have really propped up there better than Johnson unless they could get Rand Paul to sign on...but that wasn't happening.

[iam90sbaby 2,659]

As long as he knows about the US, I don't really care about what the name of a city in Syria is. This is so focking insignificant, but leave it up to the media to create fake outrage.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,583]

So, are we going to bomb this archipelago or what?

[Big Guy 1,416]

It's so they can claim the high ground no matter who wins. They are both going to be looked at as unworthy presidents, so in order to impress a low rent message board they get to say I didn't vote for him or her. It's weak, but these are weaklings. They want to sit and point instead of putting themselves in the game. They sit on their biscuit, amd don't want to risk it.

 

true

 

Even if it only came down to the vast difference of Supreme Court appointees, that's more than enough for a conservative to vote Trump. If Hillary get's in, it's simply the end of America.

[Sho Nuff 720]

 

true

 

Even if it only came down to the vast difference of Supreme Court appointees, that's more than enough for a conservative to vote Trump. If Hillary get's in, it's simply the end of America.

The emd of America? And no, nothing RP lite said was true. Voting for Johnson has zero to do with this message board...by anyone supporting him.

And yeah, trusting Trump with SC justice nominations is mindnumbingly stupid. Par for the course with Trump supporters.