Did Gary Johnson actually ask "What is Aleppo?"

[pepperbear]

I even know WHERE it is, but I'm not running for POTUS!

[cilla4progress]

1. I saw it.

Stunning in its lack of awareness of the world. From a US Presidential candidate. I'm not sure Johnson is playing with a full deck, though he seems relatively innocuous.

[tonyt53]

5. Libertarians are isolationists. I doubt if most of them have any idea either.

[CTyankee]

12. I saw it and think he thought Barnicle was asking "What about a leppo?" assuming that

it was something called a "leppo" that he couldn't discern.

I know that sounds a bit odd but I really don't think he was hearing it was one word and a name of a place.

[wheniwasincongress]

2. yes

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Even worse than that brainfart was the solution:

Ally yourselves with Vladimir Putin.

What the hell is it with candidates who want to cozy up to Putin here?

[karynnj]

16. Here, he is stating support for what Obama/Kerry are trying to do -- which is to negotiate

a diplomatic end to the fighting. This is - I think - Hillary Clinton's position as well.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Everyone knows, Aleppo make the taco trucks go vroooooom

[wheniwasincongress]

6. This is a great trick to stump Trump

refer not to the country's name but by the city's name or specific region. If the debate mods don't do it, Clinton could ask Trump what he would do about such and such.

[Thinkingabout]

7. If anyone remembers "Read my Lips", what do you think would happen to "What is Aleppo?"

[DustyJoe]

8. Ahhhh that's my ex-governor

It's just gotta make you proud ..... NOT!!!

[PassingFair]

9. Worse than that... it appeared to me that he actually asked...

"What is a "leppo"?

[spanone]

11. ignorance rules.

[Orrex]

13. This will probably cost him 50% of his voters nationwide

But I'm sure that he can still count on his remaining 150,000.

[Bucky]

14. The Libertarian Party has a great Star Trek parody TV ad up online.

It shows how terrible & polluted & covered with oil derricks our cities will be under Trump or Clinton and then contrasts those images with how pristine and green our cities will be under him. Because if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that deregulation and small government always leads to cleaner environments and a lack of commercial activities in public spaces.

Then the ad shows the shoddily built fake USS Enterprise blowing up because it was built by big government. Because, as history has shown, it is the lack of industrial regulation that leads to greater workplace safety.

Thanks for those timely reminders, Gary Johnson. But I'm not sure your extended nonsequitered Star Trek fantasies are helping build the case that being a lifelong stoner hasn't impaired your thinking.

[Chathamization]

15. It was asked with no context. I don't like Johnson, but this thing is pretty silly

BARNICLE: Which of those candidates of the two-party system — Republican candidate, Democratic candidate — do you draw the most votes from?

JOHNSON: You know, in all of these polls it’s just, remarkably, 50-50. Amazingly, I think, though, that with the exception of just a few polls it’s more votes from Hillary.

BARNICLE: Do you —

JOHNSON: But I think — I think when it ends up it will really be 50-50.

BARNICLE: But do you worry about the Nader effect in 2000?

JOHNSON: I don’t worry one bit about it. I really do think that the two-party system is broken. I don’t think Democrats are able to balance a checkbook these days. That’s it’s all about bigger government and higher taxes. And then Republicans with, I think, the social agenda. Look, whatever your social inclinations are just don’t force it on me. And I think the Republican Party has gotten really extreme in that category.

BARNICLE: What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo?

JOHNSON: About?

BARNICLE: Aleppo.

JOHNSON: And what is Aleppo?

BARNICLE: You’re kidding.

JOHNSON: No.

BARNICLE: Aleppo is in Syria. It’s the — it’s the epicenter of the refugee crisis.

JOHNSON: OK, got it, got it.

When talking about the two parties and polling and you hear someone saying "a LEPO", you might not immediately realize that they suddenly switched to a completely different topic.