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

realclearpolitics.com ^ | January 30, 2012

[grundle]

During his Google+ hangout Pres. Obama tells a woman that her husband shouldn't be unemployed from the growth he has seen in the economy. Obama said he finds it "interesting" because he is getting "the word" that someone in her husband's job field "should be able to find something right away."

Obama offered to do something if she would just send him her husband's resume.

The woman wants to know why Obama is extending visas for foreigners when there is tons of demand for American jobs by Americans.

"I don't know what your husband's speciality [is], but I can tell you that there is a huge demand around the country for engineers," Obama told the woman.

"I understand that," she responded. "But how am -- given the list that you're getting, I mean we're not getting that. You said in the State of the Union address for business leaders to ask what can they do to bring jobs back to America

During the back and forth between Obama and the wife of an unemployed engineer, Obama asked for his resume.

"Can I ask you what kind of engineer your husband is?," Obama said to the wife of the unemployed engineer.

"He's a semiconductor engineer," she responded.

"It is interesting to me -- and I meant what I said if your send me your husband's resume, I'd be interested in finding out exactly what's happening right there because the word that we're getting is that somebody in that type of high-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away.

[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.