[Lnc-business] "What is Aleppo?"

[Starchild]

	Thanks for coming to our presidential candidate's defense on this, Roland. Honestly however, my sense is that most candidates, activists, and other people who pay much attention to politics probably have heard of Alleppo, hence the "gotcha" reactions. Gary Johnson and his campaign staff essentially admitted it was an embarrassing gaffe by the candidate. Nevertheless, that being acknowledged, there's little more to be said or done but move on. Nobody's perfect, and Gary's broader understanding of the situation in Syria and stance favoring diplomacy rather than military intervention by the U.S. government appears sound. His failure to recognize the name Aleppo seems to be getting blown out of proportion. 

	Reason just published a good blog post by Anthony Fisher on the topic – http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/08/gary-johnsons-aleppo-gaffe-serious . If Fisher is correct that this is "the biggest publicity (Johnson's) campaign has received thus far", that is outrageous and infuriating! Biased fucking media (pardon my French). As the typically spot-on Reason piece notes, this sort of gaffe is not particularly unusual, and in reporting on it, even the New York Times made its own equally ignorant factual errors (not one but two!). 

	Not to mention this perhaps more embarrassing demonstration of ignorance by Hillary Clinton:  "Just last night in a forum about veterans issues and foreign policy to which Johnson was not invited, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared not to know that Libya is in a state of civil war. That the war is a result of the power vacuum created by the military intervention she aggressively pushed for while serving in Obama's cabinet makes her oversight particularly distressing."

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                                   ((( starchild )))
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On Sep 8, 2016, at 6:50 PM, riemers at juno.com wrote:

> While Gary Johnson took a lot of heat from the media today because he did not know that Aleppo is a city in Syria,  so what?   999 out of a thousand of us would not know either.  While I listen to the international news daily I also really pay no attention to the latest city that is getting blasted to pieces, as there are just too many of them.  And as I have utterly no interest in traveling to that hell hole part of the world, I am not overly interesting in learning the names of piles of rubble that ,may have been an important city at one time or another.
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> If someone asked me about "Aleppo" I would guess it to be a Mexican drink of some kind!
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> In any case,  if Gary had answered correctly,  there would have been no story and no media coverage.  The media wants to show off their talent, not the candidates.  
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> So, I say,  even if not planned, it was a delightful way to get some news coverage,  as the average voter also would have no idea what a Aleppo is.
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> Enough of my thoughts.  I think I will go upstairs to my kitchen an make a nice cold Aleppo to drink before I go to bed.  
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> Roland Riemers ND
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> Libertarian candidate for ND State Auditor
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> (p.s.  does anyone have a suggestion on how to make an Aleppo drink?)
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