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

realclearpolitics.com ^ | January 30, 2012

[ballplayer]

Sort of Like Miracle On 34th Street where they Dumped the stacks of Letters to Santa Claus at the trial Proving there is A Santa Claus! Might even save the Poastal service!

[PghBaldy]

When my brother uses the term "that's interesting," by context, it seems to mean:

"I hate that you said that. You are wrong. You are vile for saying that. I disagree with you and this statement. Don't ever say such a thing again and by the way, your socks don't match, your tie is ugly, and your mama is fat."

Translation: "That's interesting," is a polite way of saying, "Buzz Off!"

[riri]

Seriously, the evil SOB is so out of touch.

Sadly he is not much more out of touch than all the other elites who are trying out all their grand schemes of how the world should work on us rubes.

[Ted Grant]

Sounds to me like he just said he had an interest in the substance of her husband’s field, that’s all. Making conversation.

Obama is an empty guy. This is what empty people do when they have to make conversation.

[snowsislander]

... as long as the husband doesn't mind relocating to Taiwan, Japan, ...

It's not that easy at least with respect to Japan. The large majority of jobs in Japan require that you are fluent in Japanese, though certainly not all. The 人事 folks certainly don't want to be writing every edict both in Japanese and in English.

For that matter, there are traditional Japanese hiring practices aren't going to work so well for any foreign hire that isn't a very recent college graduate, even if the person is fluent in Japanese. Then there are also the Japanese government documentation requirements for foreign hires that the 人事 need to be conversant with.

The upshot is that it is possible to get hired in Japan, but it's not usually trivial. (Yes, I know; some people just hop on an airplane and manage to pull it off, but they often end up breaking Japanese immigration laws — usually the strictures on guest visas. I myself don't think that it is a good idea to go to a foreign country and blatantly violate their laws.)

[freebird5850]

Barry’s just trying to act all king and stuff.