MSNBC: Romney "like a clinical psychologist trying to explain the effects of unemployment on humans"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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. He reminds me of Thurston Howell.

[MarianJack]

3. Thurston Howell...

...was at least funny and loveable.

bain romney is downright smarmy.

PEACE!

[FSogol]

2. K & R.

[Mopar151]

4. I'd give clinical psychologists more credit than that

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]

5. What would he know about unemployment anyway? or the poor?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. HEY! He told us he was "almost unemployed" once, REMEMBER?

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]

7. Here's an article with the quote:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57373671-503544/romney-focuses-on-personal-subjects/

"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]

8. Thanks for posting...here's where he choked:

"being out of work for a long time is a real threat, a real threat and challenge to human happiness..."

He really stumbled over every one of those words.

[Botany]

9. Where Mitt spends his out of work down time