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

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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.