Posted on 09/09/2016 4:44:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Thursday morning a candidate for the presidency of the United States was asked “and what would you do if elected, about Aleppo?”
His silence hung in the air as the questioner and the others on set waited for his answer.
And then Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president and former governor of New Mexico, went deer-in-the-headlights and dropped this verbal barrel bomb, “and what is Aleppo?”
An awful moment – perhaps a devastating one -- for him as a candidate. The pauses painful and potent.
#AndWhatisAleppo? It’s a very good question. A question that prompts the squirming. It is one we must answer. It is Sarajevo, it is Bosnia, it is a village in Rwanda. It’s a place we thought would go away. It is somebody’s home.
And thus a new Twitter hashtag was born. We should all be asking ourselves this question: #AndWhatisAleppo?
Perhaps it’s not so surprising -- not to know.
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Fifth Marx Brother
Huh? Looks like you’re just as clueless as Gary Johnson.
Fifth Marx Brother
No it is not silly it is a dog food.
Isn’t Syria one of the countries dedicated to wiping Israel off the face of the earth?
“And then Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president and former governor of New Mexico, went deer-in-the-headlights and dropped this verbal barrel bomb, “and what is Aleppo?”
The perfect answer to attract dumb-asses. He’ll pull 10% minimum from Hillary.
It is a dog food that use to be for sale back in the 1960’s.
Some foreign guy...name is actually Al Eppo. Think he may be Hispanic or Greek, maybe Eyetalaian /s
Any relation to Alpa Chino?
Aleppo is a holding tank full of future Democrats for Hillary.
Now they are trying to spin Gary Johnson as some profound philosopher. “But what is Aleppo, really?”
It’s where Barack has been quasi managing a rope a dope war whose chief political advantage appears to be to furnish a river of refugees to the West...
Someone’s never watched Lawrence of Arabia.
I thought it was a cholesterol drug?
In all honesty I haven't given much thought to Aleppo other than occasional fond memories of Hulagu's great urban renewal project of 1260 AD.
Who gives a rat’s ass?
It’s not our problem.
A person with leprosy.
Our dogs loved to eat Aleppo.
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