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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
The Aleppo thing for Johnson is a bit of a joke. We're talking one mis-step (has there been others? I haven't seen), compared to Clinton who's a person that should have been indicted or Trump who... I mean come on.
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Well there was the time he didn't know who Harriett Tubman was. Also there's his support for the TPP despite not actually knowing what it does. There was the fact that he didn't even know his own running mate's feelings on hate crime legislation.
http://fusion.net/story/345167/gary-...t-know-aleppo/
I'm probably more up-to-date than many of my peers on political topics both domestic and abroad, because I go out of my way to keep track of it, but I sure as hell know what Aleppo is, and someone attempting to become leader of the strongest military in the world should know at least as much as I do.
Libertarian ideals are all well and good until you realize that US can't just pull out of its foreign entanglements that easily. You can't just ignore what's happening in the rest of the world, to US allies, because that's part of what we've signed up for when we decided to play world police. Johnson runs on a platform of stripping regulations, cutting taxes as low as possible, and legalizing marijuana, but his knowledge beyond those topics, and especially on foreign policy, is superficial.
While he's vastly more qualified than Trump--that's not saying very much. And Jill Stein couldn't even manage to land in the right city in Ohio.
Like it or not, there's one candidate that has a combination of experience and knowledge of foreign and domestic policy, and it's Clinton. She's far from perfect, but she's dramatically more qualified than any other horse in this race.