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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Xavier_Onassis on October 01, 2016, 08:15:01 PM

Title: What should Gary Johnson have said?
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on October 01, 2016, 08:15:01 PM

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian, was asked if he could name  a political leader of some other country whose views he admired as a Libertarian.

Then he was ridiculed for not being able to name a single one. I think he should have been prepared to name at least a couple, since he is after all running as a world leader.

Can any of YOU name a world leader for Johnson to admire?

Title: Re: What should Gary Johnson have said?
Post by: Plane on October 01, 2016, 10:25:36 PM

Living?

No.

Title: Re: What should Gary Johnson have said?
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on October 02, 2016, 11:00:08 AM

I suspect not even deceased.

Libertarianism is NOT any sort of popular political preference anywhere.
But if Johnson had just googled a bit, he could have found a couple of Estonians and a Mongolian who he could have mentioned, and he would not have appeared to be such a total dolt.

There is this fellow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj

and this one:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toomas_Hendrik_Ilves
who has been married thrice and wears bowties, because his father always did.

and perhaps this one:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taavi_R%C3%B5ivas
who is shacked up with a pop singer. Singing is really big in Estonia.

Estonians who describe themselves as believers in a god are 16% of the population.

Estonia has a balanced budget.

The hard part for Johnson would be pronouncing Tsakhoagiin Elbegdorj, Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Taavi Roivas. Thdere is an umlaut (two dots) over the o in Roivas.

There are many who confuse Mongolia with Manchuria, so perhaps he was worried about "Mongolian Candidate" getting confused with "Manchurian candidate".

Perhaps Johnson might try wearing a bowtie. But again, Elijah Mohammad and Malcolm X were fond of those.

Title: Re: What should Gary Johnson have said?
Post by: Plane on October 02, 2016, 01:00:14 PM

So all Johnson needs for perfection is a few minutes alone with Google between question and answer?


Why not?


In these times information memorized is not so valuable , information evaluated is still hard to get.

Title: Re: What should Gary Johnson have said?
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on October 02, 2016, 04:52:45 PM

Google find do in two minutes what a researcher in a library might take two hours to find.

It would probably do little good to mention Estonian or Mongolian politics to thew American public. Most could not fine either on a map.

There were times in which I had no students in my class that could name the capital city of Canada or even Mexico.