What happens when you combine actual people, a discussion of unemployment and the candidate himself? You get this, from Jeff Zeleny, on the stump with Romney in Tampa, Fla.:
"I should tell my story," Mr. Romney said. "I'm also unemployed."
He chuckled. The eight people gathered around him, who had just finished talking about strategies of finding employment in a slow-to-recover economy, joined him in laughter.
"Are you on LinkedIn?" one of the men asked.
"I'm networking," Mr. Romney replied. "I have my sight on a particular job."
At any rate, that's the sort of easily -- VERY EASILY -- avoidable rhetorical drivel that reminds me of the terrific distance between the lives of office-seekers and actual Americans. I mean, do we really need to have the unemployment crisis trivialized one more time? Because here to trivialize the crisis one more time is Mitt Romney:
"I wish I had a job for everybody," Mr. Romney said at the end of his discussion. He added, "I may be unemployed for longer than I'd like."
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