Romney doesn't know what a 'dirty bomb' is plus ITT's Economics...

 

So Romney's 47% video situation is getting worse.  He claimed that what he was saying was out of context and the whole video should be released.  The whole video has since been released and it's so much worse than we thought.  Not in an evil scheming sort of way, but in a 'this guy should NOT be president' sort of way.  First off here's the full video.

 

Here's the part by itself that I'm going to talk about:

 



 

In my last post I talked about his famous 47% comments, but these comments aren't as well known as of yet.  So what's the problem with this statement?  Other than Romney and his recycled Bush foreign policy team beating off at the thought of invading Iran, he doesn't know what a dirty bomb is.  Rachel Maddow talked about this last night, but I had a memory pop up about an economics class I had in college.

 

So first off, a dirty bomb is not a nuclear bomb.  You don't need fissile material to make one.  It's merely a normal bomb with radioactive material in it.  The radius isn't that big and the amount of people who would die from one might be slightly lower than a normal bomb.  This shows how little Mitt Romney knows about... well everything.  This is a serious national security matter and directly affects how we deal with Iran's possible nuclear program and Romney's behind on the lingo... and is confused about what a nuclear Iran actually means.

 

So what does this have to do with my ITT Macro Economics Class?  Well I have a conservative teacher that I sparred with from time to time.  At the time I was working full time and going to school full time, something he would never know about.  He started to talk about dirty bombs one day (I think he might have been confused about what one was also) and how there was no way we could stop one from getting into the U.S. and detonating.  This was during the George W. Bush days.  This was spinning excuses for W.'s shitty job already at this point (9/11 and Iraq anyone?).  I guarantee if Obama were in office, he would have contributed it to weakness in Obama that made us look vulnerable and whatnot.  This also reminds me of how conservatives are already making excuses for losing the 2012 election with 'We weren't conservative enough!!!", but that's a post for another day.

 

I found all of the specifics (yes on wikipedia, but if you want me to source those sources, I would be happy to) within minutes.  I knew they were not the same thing, but I didn't know how bad a dirty bomb would be, which is not as bad as a conventional explosive. Maybe if Mitt took some Google/Bing time, he wouldn't put his expensive shoe covered foot in his mouth a little less often.