As part of his Google Plus "hangout" with voters, President Obama was questioned earlier today by the wife of a semiconductor engineer who – along with over 10 million other Americans – has lately found himself out of a job.
A positively surreal, and hugely telling, political moment unfolded.
After the courageous woman interjects that her husband specializes in semiconductor engineering, the President's stock answer about lavishing more taxpayer dollars on "infrastructure" spending is derailed. He then seems genuinely incredulous that his policies could possibly have left any deserving American out of work.
See, it is interesting to me – and I meant what I said, if you send me your husband's resume, I'd be interested in finding out exactly, uhh, what's happening right there, because the word we're getting is, is that somebody in that high-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away...
I'd be interested – I will follow up on this, because I'm interested in finding out, and maybe we can get some information as to why your husband's having trouble getting placed.
When that pesky real-world entity known as the actual American economy fails to conform with the President's grand designs and empty rhetoric about high-tech job creation, the cognitive dissonance is palpable.
A highly qualified man can't find work on my watch? Um...err...Does Not Compute!
What is an "interesting" piece of news to the President, of course, is something that the rest of America has known for months and months: his tax-and-spend tendencies and unshakeable faith in over-centralized economic planning have utterly failed to jump-start our weak economy. But, while it's easy to laugh off, I think the President's offer to serve as a pro bono resume consultant is even more revealing.
As a committed progressive, our President attaches a religious level of faith to the government-centered paradigm and left-wing fiscal policy. Couple that with his well-documented personal hubris, and Mr. Obama literally cannot think through any scenario in which the questioner's unhappy situation might be his own fault. If the fact that a talented engineer cannot get himself hired in Obama's America cannot be the President own fault – and surely it cannot be the fault of Congresswoman Pelosi, Senator Reid, or his other liberal allies – then only one person is left to blame.
Stupid engineer! You must not be marketing yourself effectively.
Give our brilliant President five minutes with the poor guy's resume – add a bullet point here, change the indenting there – and the guy will have ten job offers in less time than it took Obama to first mention Osama bin Laden during his State of the Union address.
Send me your husband's resume.
Is that a joke?
Thirteen million of our neighbors have been personally victimized by the President's economic illiteracy, and can do little but spend months drafting and redrafting job applications and waiting in vain for the robust growth that would yield new opportunities.
If only the President could proofread each and every one of their cover letters! After all, there's no way his quasi-socialist policies have failed America. The citizens must be to blame.
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Nov '10
Re: Who Needs a Job Creator When We Have a Career Counselor in the White House?
Depressing. This woman stuck to her guns, refusing to be deflected by that mindless blather about her husband's resume, right up to the last few seconds, when she grinned and gushed and thanked Obama for ... whatever it was she thought he was going to do for her.
This lady has a great point. High-tech firms love visas that let engineers come here from India. They're really bright and talented, they work super-hard, and you can pay them squat.
Look at her face in the last few seconds of this vid. Is there any doubt that she'll vote for this charlatan in November? "Thank you, Mr. president".
For what, exactly?
Edited on Jan 30 at 10:05pmMay '10
Re: Who Needs a Job Creator When We Have a Career Counselor in the White House?
Can this President give a succinct answer to... anything?
May '10
Re: Who Needs a Job Creator When We Have a Career Counselor in the White House?
Starve the Beast: High-tech firms love visas that let engineers come here from India. They're really bright and talented, they work super-hard, and you can pay them squat.
Look at her face in the last few seconds of this vid. Is there any doubt that she'll vote for this charlatan in November? "Thank you, Mr. president".
Edited on Jan. 30 at 10:05pm
He offered to present her husband's resume to companies in his area.
It's a tough question to handle delicately, because there are all sorts of awkward explanations -- ethical lapses, personality or work ethic issues, or some arcane subspecialty her husband is mired in -- that could affect her husband's employability.
Re: Who Needs a Job Creator When We Have a Career Counselor in the White House?
So we think it appropriate that the President will personally lobby on behalf of only those unemployed Americans who are fortunate enough to have loving spouses who, in turn, have the time and resources to sit on Google Plus and queue up for a video chat with him?
This kind of populist pandering is patronizing to the point of being offensive. We elect a leader, not some kind of clumsy caseworker. How about the President spends less time campaigning on the taxpayer's dime -- be it on Google Plus or on Air Force One, flying to another shrilly politicized rally -- and more time informing himself as to what kind of policies would actually unleash American capitalism and generate real opportunities for our unemployed friends and neighbors?