My point is that it was a ‘gotcha’ question, and that ANY candidate can be asked ‘gotcha’ questions. If we validate that media maneuver against one candidate, then we have no right to complain when it’s used against our own candidate.
Stirner has a good point at #27
It was a foreign policy question, not a medical one.
It’s a gotcha question, pure and simple. Hell, I admit I had to go look it up to put it together...He could just have easily been asked about the Syrian war or the like.
They didn’t ask about ‘Apello, Syria’. Hell, in almost every newscast, they give the city name along WITH the country; unless it’s been in the ‘know’ for so long (Moscow, Baghdad, etc.)...But, no.
GJ and Weld were what had me turn in my (L) card. Nothing even closely aligned w/ the platform; just a GOPe disgrace.