While Biden repeated "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!"... Romney told the truth, "Detroit will go bankrupt. Russia is a geopolitical foe."
Romney was Right
Romney campaign staff later scrambled to assure the press that Romney was not a hopeless wonk out of touch with the electorate by bringing up obscure countries in the middle of an election, but was in fact receiving U.S. intelligence briefings, as all presidential candidates do after their convention…Romney listened to those briefings, understood the reality and stated it: that far from being over, terrorism was spreading dangerously through Africa, which the Algerian attack now underscores.