Anu Garg at A Word A Day posted this story of an upcoming mayoral election in the small town of Völklingen, Germany (near the French border, south of Belgium), wherein one of the candidates gave a spectacularly bad answer to a question in a recent debate.
Representative Uwe Faust of the political party Die Partei jokingly asked, “According to the building code, paragraph 126, each owner is obliged to label his property with the number given by the municipality. I find it alarming that in Völklingen many house numbers are displayed in Arabic numerals. How would you like to take action against this creeping foreigner infiltration?”
To which Otfried Best, running with the far-right NPD party, fell for the joke, replying, "You just wait until I am mayor. I will change that. Then there will be normal numbers."
Mr. Best apparently does not know what Arabic numerals are.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday September 12 2017, @01:55PM (1 child)
Because his opponents destroyed themselves with their own stupidity.
I mean, here were some of his opponents:
- Jeb Bush: "Please clap"
- Ben Carson: Zzzzzzzzz
- Chris Christie: Bridgegate
- Carly Fiorina: Her record at HP speaks for itself
- Rick Santorum: A frothy mixture ...
- Rick Perry: Couldn't remember what departments he'd eliminate
- Hillary Clinton: Hired an incompetent firm to manage her email server that she shouldn't have even had
- Gary Johnson: "What is Aleppo?"
- Jill Stein: Just plain wrong about alternative medicine, and she's a doctor
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:14AM
I suppose, as a presidential candidate, he should be more aware than dummies like me, but I'd never heard of Aleppo until that incident, when suddenly the media started quacking "Aleppo! Aleppo!" all day long, instead of "Syria".