Rachel Maddow - Romney's silence on security leaves duty unfulfilled

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[gateley]

1. Excellent piece, Rachel!

And again, I just can't stop myself from thinking "I wish Obama would have listened to Biden."

[stopwastingmymoney]

2. Watch it on her site

This video cuts off the last two minutes, where she make an important point

[marble falls]

3. If it were anybody but Mitt, a candidate could make a rebound on getting the troops out of ....

Afghanistan and maybe get some traction from it for other issues on that stand alone. But not Romney and his Teabilly supporters. How in the world does a guy so clueless about how the Federal gov't works get so far into an election?????

And the "anonymous" holdout in the Senate, he can be identified easily enough. Someone else knows who he is, he is part of some sort of machinations by the GOP for some sort of ends.

[central scrutinizer]

4. one criticism on her statistics

With more troops in Afghanistan, the NUMBER of attacks might have gone up simply because there were more targets. A better statistic would have been the RATE of attacks. Something like number of soldiers per attack.

It is like saying you should buy a neon purple car because they are involved in the FEWEST number of accidents. It's because there are almost no cars like that on the road. What is the rate or percentage of cars involved in accidents is a better measure.