red states rule
11-13-2008, 03:55 PM
This is a hoot. The questions people are asked who want a job in the Obama adminsitartion are funny as hell
Obama could not get a job based on the questions his people are asking :lol:
Here is a copy of the application
http://imgsrv.knx1070.com/image/knx/UserFiles/File/13apply_questionnaire.pdf
Obama team assembles exhaustive jobs form
Application for top posts has 63 records requests
By Jackie Calmes
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
November 13, 2008
WASHINGTON – Want a top job in the Obama administration? Only pack rats need apply, preferably those not packing controversy.
A seven-page questionnaire being sent by the office of President-elect Barack Obama to those seeking Cabinet and other high-ranking posts may be the most extensive – some say invasive – application ever.
The questionnaire includes 63 requests for personal and professional records, some covering applicants' spouses and grown children. Job seekers will be forced to rummage from basements to attics, in shoe boxes, diaries and computer archives to document their achievements and missteps.
Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass Obama, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.
The application also asks applicants to “please list all aliases or 'handles' you have used to communicate on the Internet.”
The vetting process for executive branch jobs has been onerous for decades, with each incoming administration adding barriers to avoid the mistakes of the past or the controversies of the present. It is typically updated to reflect technological change (there was no Facebook the last time a new president came to town).
But Obama has elevated the vetting even beyond what might have been expected, especially when it comes to applicants' family members, in a reflection of his campaign rhetoric against lobbying and the self-serving ways of Washington.
Jobs with the mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have served as lucrative incubators for Democratic and Republican administration officials. But those affiliations have become potentially toxic since the government recently seized both companies after years of financial irregularities that have stoked the financial crisis.
Not surprisingly, then, Question 18 of the Obama application asks whether “you, your spouse or any member of your immediate family” have been affiliated with Fannie, Freddie, American International Group, Washington Mutual and any other institution receiving a government bailout.
Under the section “Domestic Help,” the Obama questionnaire asks for the immigration status of applicants' housekeepers, nannies, chauffeurs and yard workers, and whether applicants have paid the required taxes for household employees. (Those questions reflect controversies that tripped up President Clinton's first two nominees for attorney general in 1993.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081113/news_1n13trans.html
Obama could not get a job based on the questions his people are asking :lol:
Here is a copy of the application
http://imgsrv.knx1070.com/image/knx/UserFiles/File/13apply_questionnaire.pdf
Obama team assembles exhaustive jobs form
Application for top posts has 63 records requests
By Jackie Calmes
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
November 13, 2008
WASHINGTON – Want a top job in the Obama administration? Only pack rats need apply, preferably those not packing controversy.
A seven-page questionnaire being sent by the office of President-elect Barack Obama to those seeking Cabinet and other high-ranking posts may be the most extensive – some say invasive – application ever.
The questionnaire includes 63 requests for personal and professional records, some covering applicants' spouses and grown children. Job seekers will be forced to rummage from basements to attics, in shoe boxes, diaries and computer archives to document their achievements and missteps.
Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass Obama, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.
The application also asks applicants to “please list all aliases or 'handles' you have used to communicate on the Internet.”
The vetting process for executive branch jobs has been onerous for decades, with each incoming administration adding barriers to avoid the mistakes of the past or the controversies of the present. It is typically updated to reflect technological change (there was no Facebook the last time a new president came to town).
But Obama has elevated the vetting even beyond what might have been expected, especially when it comes to applicants' family members, in a reflection of his campaign rhetoric against lobbying and the self-serving ways of Washington.
Jobs with the mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have served as lucrative incubators for Democratic and Republican administration officials. But those affiliations have become potentially toxic since the government recently seized both companies after years of financial irregularities that have stoked the financial crisis.
Not surprisingly, then, Question 18 of the Obama application asks whether “you, your spouse or any member of your immediate family” have been affiliated with Fannie, Freddie, American International Group, Washington Mutual and any other institution receiving a government bailout.
Under the section “Domestic Help,” the Obama questionnaire asks for the immigration status of applicants' housekeepers, nannies, chauffeurs and yard workers, and whether applicants have paid the required taxes for household employees. (Those questions reflect controversies that tripped up President Clinton's first two nominees for attorney general in 1993.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081113/news_1n13trans.html