Obama to woman: Send hubby’s r sum

Associated Press

WASHINGTON

President Barack Obama is trying to rebuild the American economy, one job at a time — literally.

The president asked an online town-hall questioner Monday to send him her husband’s r sum , insisting he wanted to look into why the man remained out of work despite his background as a semiconductor engineer.

“I meant what I said; if you send me your husband’s r sum , I’d be interested in finding out exactly what’s happening right there,” Obama told the questioner, Jennifer Wedel of Fort Worth, Texas.

He told Wedel that according to what he was hearing from industry, such high-tech fields are in great demand, and her husband “should be able to find something right away.”

Wedel told Obama that despite what he said, her husband had been out of work for three years. She wanted to know why foreign workers were getting visas for high-skilled work.

The exchange came as Obama appeared in a live video-chat room known as a “Hangout,” part of online search giant Google’s social-networking site, Google Plus.