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Well, I guess no more Lil' Jon as Secretary of Crunk.
Seven-page job questionnaire goes to extraordinary lengths to protect incoming administration
Have you led an entirely blameless - or better yet blander than bland - existence for your entire adult life? Can you guarantee that you have never sent an embarrassing or angry email or text? Are you absolutely sure you have destroyed those awkward teenage diaries? The Barack Obama administration may want you.
A seven-page job questionnaire prepared by the office of the president-elect is going to extraordinary lengths to protect the incoming Obama administration from potential scandal in its job hires.
Job seekers are being asked to supply copies of all résumés or bios for the last decade - presumably to screen out people inflating their credentials.
Applicants are also being asked to hand over all written material - from books and articles to lowly comments on blogposts. They must provide all internet handles, and the URL of professional and personal networking sites.
The process of staffing the incoming administration got under way this week, with Obama taking job applications on his change.gov website.
The bonanza in political appointments is one of the rituals of the transition process. It even has its own bible: the so-called Plum Book, a purple-covered official guide to the more than 7,000 job vacancies created with the change of administration.
The guide, issued after every election since 1952, was released online this week.
But Obama appears to have set a new standard for intrusiveness as recruiters try to establish a financial, personal and professional paper trail for job applicants, their spouses, and their grown children.
Applicants are asked to list any legal offence, including traffic violations punished by more than a $50 fine. They are asked to list any gift worth over $50 they or their spouse have received from anyone who is not a relative or close friend. They must reveal whether they or anybody in their family owns a gun.
A good portion of the questionnaire is devoted to seeking financial information - down to the rate of interest the applicant is paying on their mortgage.
It also aims to weed out anyone who could be linked to the current mortgage lending crisis, asking flatly whether the applicant or any member of their family has worked for any of the firms now being bailed out by Washington.
The rationale behind the extraordinarily detailed questionnaire is fairly transparent: Obama is determined to avoid giving any ammunition to his enemies.
"Briefly describe the most controversial matters you have been involved with during the course of your career," the questionnaire asks.
It also asks the applicant whether he or she has any enemies that "might take steps, overtly or covertly, fairly or unfairly, to criticise your nomination".
Then again, with America's jobless rate at a 14-year high, maybe Obama just figures he can afford to be choosy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...-questionnaire
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Well, I guess no more Lil' Jon as Secretary of Crunk.
wtf does this have to do with anything? millions of people own guns, it's legal. Well, until obama takes them all away. maybe he just wants anti-gunnies working for him.They must reveal whether they or anybody in their family owns a gun.
He's pretty much got that covered already.
I love how he supports gun ownership for the hunters.
LOL, no homie they want to protect themselves.
Homie? Really?
Did I offend you?
that's for sure. Pelosi hates guns, except I bet SHE has a CHL.... or if not, has bodyguards.
2nd amendment is just about HUNTING....
they don't want their subjects armed.
No. Were you trying to?
What WERE you trying to do?
Hmm, well, at the time of the writing of the cons ution, all of today's assault rifles wouldn't have even been conceived of.
I believe we should be STRICT CONSTRUCTIONISTS - only muskets, long rifles, and primitive dueling pistols..
It's simple. It's because Obama is for very strong gun regulations. He doesn't want any pro-gun advocates that may snitch on his methods, or complain, or otherwise make him look bad.
Isn't it funny how a man who claims that associations of the past don't matter, wants potential employees to disclose the same type of information? If it matters to him, why whouldn't it matter to the voters?
You just can't stop whining, can you?
Who's whining? Why not instead make the point that I'm pointing out the obvious?
You just can't stop whining, can you?
Why are you such a ing jerk?
Are you escalating now?
Good stuff to know.
Lose lose situation for Obama.
Don't do it and hire somebody that could give the press something to talk about for a day or two and be criticized for the lack of vetting, poor decision making, etc.
Do it and get criticized for it.
Hmm...
Maybe, just maybe, he wants to have a combination of gun owners and non-gun owners working for him.
And?
LOL at you all.
"Homie" is racist? Jesus Christ.
I don't think he was offended.
Not offended at all, just trying to understand what you meant by homie. I'm unfamiliar with the term, enlighten me.
I know it has nothing to do with race, because you've clearly positioned yourself as someone who is not concerned with race... so unconcerned that the very implication of racism (i.e. the "race card") offends you to the core.
Excellent for avoiding hiring a pitbull .
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