White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dismissed the idea that President Obama told a woman to send him her husband’s resume as part of a strategy, explaining that the president tries to “experience the American economy” through conversations with regular people.
“I think he very much enjoys and looks forward to talking to regular Americans,” Carney said of Obama. “He gets to experience the American economy through the eyes of people who are living it, and that was the case in this exchange yesterday.”
Asked if collecting resumes is something Obama regards as a task for the president or a campaign strategy, Carney said that “there’s no strategy here,” explaining that “it’s very much about how he responds to and reacts to folks who tell him their stories.”
Carney acknowledged that “the resume has been sent and received,” but he said he didn’t “have any further guidance to give [reporters] about what might happen.”
