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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC: Romney "like a clinical psychologist trying to explain the effects of unemployment on humans"
They just played the clip of Romney talking about his days as a Mormon minister, and how he once had to counsel someone who was unemployed, and "the effect of unemployment is...is...is..." He had a clear case of mental constipation, the words just didn;t come out of him naturally, because they were probably placed in his cranium by his handlers.
Just when you thought Romney couldn't get more wooden, he got more wooden. He clearly has no empathy whatsoever for anyone below the multi-millionaire level. If you told him that you'd run out of toast points for your Beluga and it was the butler's day off, he'd start bawling like Boner.
The quote in my subject line came from one of Chuck Todd's panelists on "The Daily Rundown."
CAPHAVOC
(1,138 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...was at least funny and loveable.
bain romney is downright smarmy.
PEACE!
FSogol
(45,526 posts)Mopar151
(9,998 posts)The ARNP who monitors my meds told me a while ago that, if she could write prescriotions for jobs, her job would get much easier. My last checkup with Internal Medicine and visit with her confirmed this. Being out of work, for most people, is a measurable, verifiable medical condition.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)I think that means he's more than qualified to counsel someone who actually is unemployed. Those "almost" life experiences are nerve wracking, my friend. Don't be so fast to sell him short.
highplainsdem
(49,035 posts)"In my church, we don't have a professional ministry, and so people are asked to serve as the minister or the pastor of the congregation from time to time, and I had that privilege for, I think, over ten years," he said. "And in that capacity I had a chance to work with people who lost their jobs, in some cases, or were facing other financial distress, losing their homes and I found that those kinds of circumstances were not just about money or numbers, they were about lives and about emotions.
"Sometimes marriages suffered, sometimes people became depressed, clinically depressed, being out of work for a long time is a real threat, a real threat and challenge to human happiness, and I feel this president has let us down," he added.
I caught that discussion on MSNBC, too, and I agreed with them that he sounded clinical and detached -- especially with wording like "human happiness" and "clinically depressed." You'd expect that wording more from an academic discussion of a study on poverty than from a recollection of personal, sympathetic interaction.
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)He really stumbled over every one of those words.