Gary Johnson

zitothebrave said:
First off you have to realize the questioning was poor s well.

He was asked what would your do about Aleppo. Not how would you deal with the situation in Aleppo, or anything like that. It would be like asking Trump what would he do about Providence.
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No, Barnicle was asking the most straightforward question possible: What is the strategic, diplomatic, and moral route to ending the prolonged slaughter in Syria? Johnson’s inability to locate Aleppo, where men, women, and children are being eradicated every day, most recently by chlorine-gas attacks, was pathetic, the equivalent of a candidate for President in 1964 being unable to summon the location of Hanoi or Saigon. It’s not enough that Johnson has a vague isolationist ideology—that, like Ron and Rand Paul, he is against an interventionist foreign policy. That’s a legitimate viewpoint, but it doesn’t seem overly demanding to insist that he read a newspaper, a Web site, anything—that he ought to know something about the wars that are being fought in the world, especially given that America has an active, if limited, involvement in Syria now. And shouldn’t knowing nothing—in his case, or in Trump’s—be disqualifying? At the D.M.V., if you flunk the written exam, you can’t get behind a steering wheel with the motor running. Perhaps there should be a remotely similar bar for cluelessness in a Presidential campaign.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-is-aleppo

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Not to mention he hasn't been puched in the mouth yet.
Niche candidate.
Niche is French for irrelevant
 
57Brave said:
No, Barnicle was asking the most straightforward question possible: What is the strategic, diplomatic, and moral route to ending the prolonged slaughter in Syria? Johnson’s inability to locate Aleppo, where men, women, and children are being eradicated every day, most recently by chlorine-gas attacks, was pathetic, the equivalent of a candidate for President in 1964 being unable to summon the location of Hanoi or Saigon. It’s not enough that Johnson has a vague isolationist ideology—that, like Ron and Rand Paul, he is against an interventionist foreign policy. That’s a legitimate viewpoint, but it doesn’t seem overly demanding to insist that he read a newspaper, a Web site, anything—that he ought to know something about the wars that are being fought in the world, especially given that America has an active, if limited, involvement in Syria now. And shouldn’t knowing nothing—in his case, or in Trump’s—be disqualifying? At the D.M.V., if you flunk the written exam, you can’t get behind a steering wheel with the motor running. Perhaps there should be a remotely similar bar for cluelessness in a Presidential campaign.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-is-aleppo

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Not to mention he hasn't been puched in the mouth yet.
Niche candidate.
Niche is French for irrelevant
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Better than a clown - Trump
Better than a felon - sHillary
 
57Brave said:
No, Barnicle was asking the most straightforward question possible: What is the strategic, diplomatic, and moral route to ending the prolonged slaughter in Syria? Johnson’s inability to locate Aleppo, where men, women, and children are being eradicated every day, most recently by chlorine-gas attacks, was pathetic, the equivalent of a candidate for President in 1964 being unable to summon the location of Hanoi or Saigon. It’s not enough that Johnson has a vague isolationist ideology—that, like Ron and Rand Paul, he is against an interventionist foreign policy. That’s a legitimate viewpoint, but it doesn’t seem overly demanding to insist that he read a newspaper, a Web site, anything—that he ought to know something about the wars that are being fought in the world, especially given that America has an active, if limited, involvement in Syria now. And shouldn’t knowing nothing—in his case, or in Trump’s—be disqualifying? At the D.M.V., if you flunk the written exam, you can’t get behind a steering wheel with the motor running. Perhaps there should be a remotely similar bar for cluelessness in a Presidential campaign.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-is-aleppo

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Not to mention he hasn't been puched in the mouth yet.
Niche candidate.
Niche is French for irrelevant
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That wasn't the question asked.

ANd it's not similar because we aren't at war with Korea like we were with Vietnam.

Also Johnson isn't an isolationist. He believes there are times we should intervene militarily in foreign wars, he mentioned Kosovo as a specific time he would agree with the US intervention.

I get the reason for the attacks from democratic shills like NYT are going after him because Johnson is a direct threat to Clinton because Clinton wants those votes.

Here's another article on this

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/08/med...s-but-they-try-to-explain-it-to-gary-johnson/

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/gary-johnson-aleppo/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...aleppo-i-don-t-blame-him-for-not-knowing.html

First is pointing out the hypocrisy of this whole thing. People with time to research Aleppo get it wrong. Johnson was asked point blank. I bet if I was talking to you before yesterday and asked you what is Aleppo on the spot you'd be confused.

Second discusses that Johnson is a human. He admitted he screwed up and should know it. Shocker, a politician who can admit they're human and not perfect. Holy ****.

Last one is from the man who asked the question. My favorite 2 paragraphs

"Don’t blame Gary Johnson for his ignorance or his inability to speak to what is happening in a piece of the world that is a cauldron of terror, combat, and refugees. He’s not alone. Neither of the two major candidates—Trump and Clinton—have been asked the same simple question recently: What would you do about Aleppo?

Maybe it’s because one is a bit paranoid about the press and the other simply does not care. Hillary Clinton appears tortured, robotic, unable to speak in a straight line and in a permanent defensive crouch when she does find the time to answer a few questions. Trump just lies or makes it up while we shrug our shoulders and treat him like he is still the host of The Apprentice rather than a candidate for president of the United States. We laugh at him, apparently unaware the joke is on us."
 
57Brave said:
Perhaps there should be a remotely similar bar for cluelessness in a Presidential campaign.
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I agree. LIke someoen who says

“We’ve got to say to the gun lobby, you know what, there is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there’s also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country where we are able to protect our children and others from this senseless gun violence,”
Shouldn't be elected president as they confuse the Declaration with the Constitution.
 
Runnin said:
LOL. I didn't notice that. It's really hard to tell the real from the parody anymore.
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NOt really. At least not with Google. Johnson made a gaffe and Hillary's hitmen are going after him. Same thing they did with Stein earlier with the vaccination thing. Little do they know that people who're looking at Stein or Johnson don't give a **** about **** like this and are voting because they care about the issues, and Hillary is weak on the issues.
 
" sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
going to the candidates debates
laugh about it
shout about it
when you got to choose
any way you look at it
you lose

where have you gone Joe DiMaggio a nation turns it's lonely eyes to you
wooo woo woo oo
what's that you say Mrs Robinson
Joltin joe has left and gone away

hey hey hey

hey hey hey "
 
goldfly said:
that is beyond a valid question to ask someone asking for votes for the job for president and it should be known where and what is going on there

too think otherwise is silly
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I dont have a problem with asking the question I have just have a problem with people acting like its a big deal that he had to ask for clarification. And I'm sorry about whats happening halfway across the world but we need to end the mass incarceration of innocent people before we worry about Syrians. We have our own civil war to fight.
 
cajunrevenge said:
I dont have a problem with asking the question I have just have a problem with people acting like its a big deal that he had to ask for clarification. And I'm sorry about whats happening halfway across the world but we need to end the mass incarceration of innocent people before we worry about Syrians. We have our own civil war to fight.
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well, i believe we should be adult enough to handle 2 things at once

the Syria stuff, whatever, people will make their excuses for whomever they support. no need to get into the argument if they aren't being honest about their "guy"/"gal"
 
goldfly said:
well, i believe we should be adult enough to handle 2 things at once

the Syria stuff, whatever, people will make their excuses for whomever they support. no need to get into the argument if they aren't being honest about their "guy"/"gal"
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I would say the only people being honest about their guy/gal are the people "defending" Johnson. You honestly thing Hillary or Trump would have answered much better?

My guess on what they would have done.

Hillary would have delayed and been vague then sent her goons after the reporter. Instead of a NYT article criticising Johnson, we'd have seen a NYT article bringing up that Mike Barnicle resigned in disgrace from the Boston Globe.

Trump would have deflected in 2 seconds and started talking about building a wall or not letting Muslims in the country.

Again, I'd bet the majority of people who criticize Johnson for not knowing ALeppo, don't really know it themselves. Aside from it being a city in Syria and it being a huge civil war battle ground, that's about where my knowledge ends.

The issue isn't knowing 2 things, it's everyone expects them to know everything. And that's impossible. To me who comes out bad in this is the media, because they all got on their high horses immediately, then all looked stupid as **** when they didn't know what Aleppo was and had the time to do a quick Google that Johnson didn't.
 
The working title to Yesterday was Scrambled Eggs. You know what that meant --- right ?

Lucy in the Sky was never about LSD but a picture Lennon's son drew and taped to the refrigerator --
and all we're left with is , Joltin joe has left and gone away
hey hey hey

Coo Coo CaChoo was a referring to the lesbian affair between Marilyn Monroe and Mrs Robinson or Eleanor Roosevelt
had nothing to do with 3rd party politics in 2016
The irony

Gracie Allen once ran for President under the banner of the Surprise Party. The **** we learn
 
Coo coo ca choo is a zeitgeist type of statement involving the famous line from I am the Walrus.

But whatever, you don't see the irony, I mean you are daft, I get it. Remember when you pretended to like Bernie? THat was fun.
 
zitothebrave said:
Coo coo ca choo is a zeitgeist type of statement involving the famous line from I am the Walrus.

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that is your take?
Mine is more fun if you think about it

I read somewhere on the internet that was Paul Simon's reading of john Lennon's filler line of Coo Coo Cachoo.
really
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You walk into a room
with your
pencil in your hand
 
Jill Stein flew to the wrong city to give a speech.
You see that as Presidential timber --- that is a problem
 
When it was clarified they were talking about the Syrian crisis Johnson said he would work out a deal with Russia. Days later Kerry announces a deal with Russia to deal with the Syrian crisis. Still want to pretend like he doesnt know whats going on in Syria?
 
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