Gary Johnson Still Can’t Name a Foreign Leader and Apparently Doesn’t Read the News
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 CNNs 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 Trumps 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:
WHITFIELD: That you admire.
JOHNSON: What is this, four
WHITFIELD: So youve had time to think about.
JOHNSON: Its four day yes.
WHITFIELD: Can you answer on
JOHNSON: And I still cant come up with one.
WHITFIELD: You cannot.
JOHNSON: I still cant come up with one. Well, that I admire? That Im going to have to defend a foreign leader?
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DinahMoeHum
(21,789 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Or is he just ignorant of who they are and what they have done?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)We tried that limited goverment crap under the Articles of Confederation, and it was a failure.
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)The guy's a chucklehead.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And why isn't Weld at the top of that ticket instead of the other way around?
JI7
(89,250 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Knew nothing about the tax story, and couldn't think of one world leader.
But hey ~ he favors legalizing weed.
progree
(10,908 posts)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
(100,076 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,018 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)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
(129,018 posts)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
(23,340 posts)Great in making hummus.
BumRushDaShow
(129,018 posts)But occasionally try other brands to see what works.
0rganism
(23,954 posts)there's no shame in admiring Niel Young.