Gary Johnson Still Can’t Name a Foreign Leader and Apparently Doesn’t Read the News

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite

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Johnson, who is currently the favored third-party candidate in national polls (hovering just over 7% according to the RCP average), spoke to CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on NewsRoom Sunday. Whitfield gamely offered Johnson an opportunity to redeem himself following a series of gaffes in which the candidate blanked on the meaning of “Aleppo,” the war-torn Syrian city, and was unable to name a single foreign leader he admired. But when quizzed on subjects of global affairs and the most pressing recent news in the presidential election, the former governor seemed not to have been fully briefed.

When Whitfield asked Johnson to weigh in on the Times scoop about Trump’s 1995 tax returns, he went off on a long digression about his own tax policy. The CNN host clarified: “Did you read the article? Do you have an understanding of it fully… like… the rest of us?

Johnson admitted, “No. No, I did not read the article in The New York Times. No, I did not.”

Returning to the subject of foreign leaders, a topic on which Johnson embarrassed himself last week, he did not fare much better:

JOHNSON: A foreign leader — A foreign leader that I admired.
WHITFIELD: That you admire.
JOHNSON: What is this, four —
WHITFIELD: So you’ve had time to think about.
JOHNSON: It’s four day — yes.
WHITFIELD: Can you answer on —
JOHNSON: And I still can’t come up with one.
WHITFIELD: You cannot.
JOHNSON: I still can’t come up with one. Well, that I admire? That I’m going to have to defend a foreign leader?

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[DinahMoeHum]

1. Man, is he ever giving stoners and tokers a bad name.

[Cryptoad]

2. Is he still for TPP?

[oberliner]

3. Is he trying to make the point that he does not admire any foreign leaders?

Or is he just ignorant of who they are and what they have done?

[onehandle]

4. Libertarians are generally self-centered, uninterested in the world, and dumb. nt

[MicaelS]

6. Libertarianism is just a modern form of Feudalism.

We tried that limited goverment crap under the Articles of Confederation, and it was a failure.

[lindysalsagal]

13. I usually resist sweeping generalities but he has it coming.

The guy's a chucklehead.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Yes, that is quite obvious. WTF was this guy thinking?

And why isn't Weld at the top of that ticket instead of the other way around?

[JI7]

17. because weld isn't a true libertarian

[left-of-center2012]

5. I saw that too

Knew nothing about the tax story, and couldn't think of one world leader.
But hey ~ he favors legalizing weed.

[progree]

7. Why doesn't anyone ask Trump these kinds of questions?

I doubt that he would do much better.

On foreign leaders he admires.......

Whoops, he admires Putin. I forgot. Never mind. (Hitler too, but that's not a current leader). Oh another -- he likes Turkey's Erdogan.

Actually, I can't think of any foreign leader, at least not a head of state, that I admire. The only one that comes to mind is Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, and she's not head of state. (And I had to Google to get anywhere near to remembering her name right).

I can name a lot of foreign leaders, but none that I admire.

Another in the non-head-of-state category is Pope Francis -- overall I give him a thumbs up as far as direction of movement on some issues. He's certainly a lot better than his predecessors.

On edit....

Oh - finally thought of a foreign head of state that I admire -- Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile.

And another -- there's Queen Elizabeth -- she's head of state (although not head of government)

[Initech]

8. OMG wow. And people would vote for this guy?

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Single issue voters would (where the OP examples are non sequiturs to them)

[Odin2005]

18. Single-issue pot-heads.

[cstanleytech]

19. Hey lets not malign the pot-heads as I doubt they are as dense as Johnson. nt

[JonLP24]

9. I don't know the meaning of Aleppo

However I followed the Syria conflict far more than the average American. I know where the city is located near Turkey, I remember satellite images of people fleeing over after being torn apart from indiscriminate shelling from both sides .

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Origin of a popular namesake pepper used for seasoning!

It is difficult to get now (outside of the same pepper plants grown on the Turkey side of the border in similar soil conditions). It was one of poor Aleppo's cash crops and has since been devastated by the war.

[kwassa]

15. We use Aleppo brand tahini ....

Great in making hummus.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. I use Kevala tahini

But occasionally try other brands to see what works.

[0rganism]

10. if he wants to say "Niel Young" he should just say it

there's no shame in admiring Niel Young.