Obama Tells Woman It Is "Interesting" Her Unemployed Husband Can't Find Job | RealClearPolitics

Odd how the woman complains while her husband does...does...what? Maybe she should be out helping him find work instead of spending time trying to make president Obama look bad.

Or maybe that's her job to begin with......

Hell they bought that one woman a house when she said she was homeless.

Marshall, I was on 2 years of unemployment. I had to retire, and get a part time job. Things are better now, but before was a bear.

he wasn't calling her a liar at all.

His tone was one of concern. If there is an attack to be made it is him not talking about the abuse of the visa system by companies who want cheap labor. The Q & A was probably not the place to do it.

An article from about the time he lost his job.

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Maybe the engineer can't find a job because he's as dumb as his wife?

Why is this woman 'dumb'?

Why is this woman 'dumb'?

Because she feels as if it's Obama or illegals keeping her husband unemployed. She must have missed that part about millions of Americans being unemployed or under-employed these days.

Jeff

She must have missed that part about millions of Americans being unemployed or under-employed these days.

It is pretty safe to assume she understands the unemployment situation given her husband is out of work for 3yrs with 10 years experience as a semiconductor engineer. Disagree with her speculation all you want, but Obama suggested that her husband should indeed be able to find work in his field so he thinks (or simply claims) that the unemployment situation is not an explanation for the husband's lengthy unemployment.

It is a shame that this woman is considered 'dumb' (by some) for asking a challenging - and clearly not easily answered - question.

Obama would have guaranteed her husband a job if he was a union member

I was thinking along those lines.

Republicans would have guaranteed her husband a job if he was a Liberty college grad.

you were just a bit slower,actually a lot slower

What blows my mind is that a certain faction of my party believes that "good strategy" for defeating this idiot is to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama in 2008. Hell, the AFLAC Duck would have a better chance.

Both Obama and Romney don't have a clue what it's like to be at the end of the paycheck and having to face the decision of either paying the utility bill or buy groceries, because they can't afford to do both.

Obama needs to be replaced. His narcissism alone is destructive to the country. But the current leading alternative isn't much better.

The fact that Obama thinks he can talk intelligently about jobs when he's never even held one himself, has got to be the irony of the year.

Pat,

I'd agree that Romney has no clue but Obama has worked his a55 off serving others for his entire life. I suggest you read this if you want an actual report on Obama's career.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_career_of_Barack_Obama

Rebootit -

He has never held a traditional, regular full-time job, bound by hiring practices in a specific industry, bound by the bottom line on a spreadsheet or bound by the basics of economic supply and demand for the services/products in his industry of employment. Likewise, the man has never sat on the other side of the desk, managing an enterprise. He simply is not qualified to speak for the common working man when it comes to employment issues, nor is he connected to the same people because he has zero real world experience with it in any capacity.

Clergymen spend their entire lives "serving others", too. But that doesn't make them knowledgable about the employment market or connected to the people struggling in that area.

"He has never held a traditional, regular full-time job, bound by hiring practices in a specific industry, bound by the bottom line on a spreadsheet or bound by the basics of economic supply and demand for the services/products in his industry of employment.

Private industry is not the definition of a traditional job. I work in the private sector and am surrounded by idiots everyday that are in charge of millions of dollars. I have also worked in the government and public sectors (military and hospital) and been surrounded by very business oriented people but you will never hear about them because your local business journal is not interested in them. My point is you don't have to work in corporate America to understand basic math. Either the numbers add up or they don't. Obama's policies are no more out of balance then the right's with the exception of Ron Paul who actually understands that the military budget is completely irresponsible and this is coming from an Iraq veteran.

Rebootit -

I've seen you around the Vine. You post with common sense. You mentioned basic math in your above post.

Basic math would indicate that a man who has never held a position (be it military, private sector or public sector) + thinks an intelligent answer to the woman in the article is "... he is getting "the word" that someone in her husband's job field "should be able to find something right away." = someone not qualified to speak about the employment situation.

When will some on the left admit that there are things that the current POTUS just isn't knowledgeable about? This is one of them. He shows it through his own, incompetent answers.

When will some on the left admit that there are things that the current POTUS just isn't knowledgeable about?

Never.

And if you try to point it out you are nothing but a "racist" and a "bigot".

Never.

And if you try to point it out you are nothing but a "racist" and a "bigot".

I get so confused. I never know if the slightest bit of criticism pointed Obama's direction is a result of "racism" or if it's "Bush's Fault". The two seem interchangeable. =)

The two seem interchangeable.

Quite true.

Pat,

he is getting "the word" that someone in her husband's job field "should be able to find something right away." = someone not qualified to speak about the employment situation.

I think Obama was just being polite. Instead of saying"maybe he should get off his butt". I really don't know but I do believe this country has more serious issues than jobs which I really don't see a shortage of in my field.