Gary Johnson "Who's Your Favorite Foreign Leader?"

[SYTFE]

Thoughts, ChrisL?

lol

 

[SYTFE]

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson struggled to name his favorite foreign leader on Wednesday night during a college tour town hall hosted by MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews.

“I’ve got to ask you a little lightening round here. This is where we have fun and maybe make some news. Who is your favorite foreign leader?” Matthews asked.

Johnson repeated the question while being cut off by Matthews.

“Just name anywhere in the country, any of the continents, any country, name one foreign leader that you respect and look up to. Anybody,” Matthews said.

Johnson’s vice presidential running mate Bill Weld interjected and said that his favorite leader was Israel’s former president Shimon Peres. Matthews responded that he was talking about living leaders. Peres passed earlier Wednesday morning.

Matthews continued giving Johnson geographic areas to choose from to name his favorite foreign leader.

“You got to do this. Anywhere. Any continent. Canada. Mexico. Europe. Over there. Asia. South America. Africa. Name a foreign leader that you respect,” Matthews said.

Johnson responded by saying that he was having another “Aleppo” moment, but Matthews didn’t let him off the hook. Matthews told Johnson that he was giving him the whole world, which Johnson acknowledged embarrassingly.

“The former president of Mexico,” Johnson said after Matthews kept badgering him.

“Which one?” Matthews asked.

Johnson said that he was having a brain freeze, so Matthews asked Johnson to name “anybody.”

Weld started naming some of Mexico’s former presidents and Johnson finally chose Vicente Fox.

Matthews then asked Weld to name his favorite foreign leader to get Johnson “off the hook.”

Weld responded almost immediately that his favorite foreign leader is German chancellor Angela Merkel.

Gary Johnson Struggles to Name his Favorite Foreign Leader

 

[SwimExpert]

Well, if this doesn't demonstrate the Clinton bias in the media. The Clinton media has been all too eager to try to stamp out Johnson, because they fear she could lose if she doesn't destroy him. Yes, let's keep asking the Libertarian to demonstrate love for foreign countries and individuals. Don't you all get it yet? Johnson doesn't give a fuck where Allepo is, he doesn't give a fuck who leads what country where, because his concern is right here in the United States of America.

 

[bendog]

I bet he could identify Fire Alien Master

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Thoughts, ChrisL?

lol

He's not too quick.

I'd have said "I don't look up to any of them, nor do I bow down to any of them."

 

[SYTFE]

Thoughts, ChrisL?

lol

He's not too quick.

I'd have said "I don't look up to any of them, nor do I bow down to any of them."

Agreed, he should've picked up on the "look up to part" and commented on that. He sounds like he's smoked WAY too much pot. His brain is fried.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Trump would answer before the question was finished, PUTIN!


Yeah that Johnson apparently does no studying, the same as Truncheon Trump, speaks volumes about him not even doing the most basic work to be prepared to be president. Would you expect a president to know all the states? No. Many of them? Yes. Or all the cities? No. Many? Yes. A large number of foreign leaders? No. A few? Yes.

If running for that office wouldn't you study The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The three branches of government and what powers each has, how many countries there are in the world, how many are in NATO, which ones are in the EU, what the leaders of the top five countries in the EU are, what the size of the economies of the top ten countries are, what their trade deficits are.

I mean these are not overly difficult things to learn or memorize, but this guy does no work at all. "So, you are applying for the job of car salesman, can you name our most popular models?" "Uh, no." "Can you name one?" "Um, no."

How is it in the premier democracy in the world this is what rises to the top? WTF.

 

[B. Kidd]

Gary Johnson...........poster-boy for pot interfering with firing neurons.

 

[g5000]

Well, if this doesn't demonstrate the Clinton bias in the media. The Clinton media has been all too eager to try to stamp out Johnson, because they fear she could lose if she doesn't destroy him. Yes, let's keep asking the Libertarian to demonstrate love for foreign countries and individuals. Don't you all get it yet? Johnson doesn't give a fuck where Allepo is, he doesn't give a fuck who leads what country where, because his concern is right here in the United States of America.

Holy shit, your post is as ignorant as it gets. It's downright Johnsonesque.

Considering the NUMBER ONE JOB of the Executive is foreign policy, anyone running for the office should have in depth knowledge of world affairs.

Like it or not, we are the world's only superpower, and we have national interests around the globe.

Just about every component in your cell phone comes from raw materials not from the US. So you better give a shit whether or not your President knows fuck-all about the rest of the planet.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

Gary Johnson doesn't even know one world leader? He could of at least said "Putin"! God, Everyone in the world knows President Putin! Anyway, can you imagine if a reporter/host asked Gary Johnson how many of the 57 States he has visited?

Odds are he will just sit there and try to count them on his fingers, but first he will say,,,"Uhm, 57 States? What happened? did we add another 7?
Knowing how aloof Gary Johnson has been acting lately, he would just pass on the answer, and/or ask for a map of the United States so he can count them.

 

[Mac1958]

 

[Rexx Taylor]

Gary Johnson: 57 States? does that include the state of Canada?

 

[B. Kidd]

Johnson has that semi-Mongoloid look that occurs later in life from smoking too much reefer.........doesn't he?

 

[flacaltenn]

Gary Johnson doesn't even know one world leader? He could of at least said "Putin"! God, Everyone in the world knows President Putin! Anyway, can you imagine if a reporter/host asked Gary Johnson how many of the 57 States he has visited?

Odds are he will just sit there and try to count them on his fingers, but first he will say,,,"Uhm, 57 States? What happened? did we add another 7?
Knowing how aloof Gary Johnson has been acting lately, he would just pass on the answer, and/or ask for a map of the United States so he can count them.

Yeah.. Saw that and flinched a bit. But then I tried to answer the question and realized a couple things.

1) If I was running for Prez of the US -- it would probably be stupid to list "my favorite" world leader.
2) The only world leader I could think of that I admire would be Al Sisi of Egypt. Which would be a truly controversial thing to say. But I could back that up.
3) It's a gotcha question anyways. Because even the best informed people who are not admirers of dictators or flaming socialists would have a very hard time answering it.

So R..T.. --- who is YOUR favorite foreign leader? Quick -- no search engines.

 

[Mac1958]

And yet, Johnson continues to pull very respectable poll numbers, clearly illustrating how lousy the other choices are.

 

[SwimExpert]

Considering the NUMBER ONE JOB of the Executive is foreign policy,

That is debatable. In fact, it's a positively jilted claim. If we assume that the United States has a duty to be involved in world affairs, then your claim could very well be true. However, that is one of the fundamental difference in approach and vision that differentiates a Libertarian candidate from the Democrats and/or Republicans.

Matthews, and other Clinton media surrogates, aren't at all interested in hearing Johnson speak about the merits of Libertarian values. They just want to make fun of him for being Libertarian, in hopes of dissuading people who are dissatisfied with Clinton. And that is why what they are doing is such bullshit.

Disagree with Johnson if that's your opinion. Disagree with Libertarian thinking is that's your opinion. But if the only complaint you can levy is that it's not neo-con chickenhawk thinking, then that's as pathetic as everything Trump and Clinton have contributed to this election cycle.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

Gary Johnson: Uhm, Hmm, Richard Nixon?

 

[SYTFE]

Well, if this doesn't demonstrate the Clinton bias in the media. The Clinton media has been all too eager to try to stamp out Johnson, because they fear she could lose if she doesn't destroy him. Yes, let's keep asking the Libertarian to demonstrate love for foreign countries and individuals. Don't you all get it yet? Johnson doesn't give a fuck where Allepo is, he doesn't give a fuck who leads what country where, because his concern is right here in the United States of America.

While I agree that the media found Johnson's weak spot and loves poking it right now, it's a fact that what happens around the world affects the USA, and this is where libertarian philosophy fails. We simply can't just choose to be oblivious to the rest of the world, and this is why we'll never have a libertarian president -- ever.

 

[SwimExpert]

it's a fact that what happens around the world affects the USA

Well, sure. Everything that happens everywhere in the world affects everyone, in some way. The question is whether the US is justified to become involved, and whether there is an adequate potential for our involvement to be beneficial, as opposed to detrimental.

 

[easyt65]

At least he didn't say 'Barry'.