Ruh-roh, Rorge: Obama transition team asking if applicants have made any embarrassing blog posts!

[KamaAina]

Looks like I'm stuck out here after all...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/us/politics/13apply.html

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 as well, that are forcing job-seekers to rummage from basements to attics, in shoe boxes, diaries and computer archives to document both 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 the president-elect, 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."

:scared:

Of course, if they google "KamaAina", they'd have to make it case-sensitive, so as not to get a lot of noise from Hawai'i tourism sites (kama'aina discount)... then again, I'm reasonably sure I don't have copies of my state ethics disclosure forms, for the simple reason that I had nothing to disclose. :eyes:

[Renew Deal]

1. I didn't know you were up for a cabinet spot.

But we'll enjoy having you right here. :pals:

[KamaAina]

3. It said "and other top officials"

I figured this meant anyone who had (or was in the process of) filling out the online application at www.change.gov. :shrug:

[galaxy21]

2. How many political futures will be ruined by facebook and myspace ?

'well, *insert random name* would have gotten the democratic nomination for president of the Unitied States, unfortunately, their career was ruined after some sexist jokes turned up on their old myspace page from twenty years ago'

[BeFree]

4. Crap

I'll never get hired again!! Yall are stuck with me.

[Edweird]

5. Why would it matter if they owned a gun?

[SoCalDem]

6. perhaps checking for donations to the NRA, or making sure they have permits

up to date...

[ManiacJoe]

7. Extremely few places require permits for gun ownership.

Permits for conceal carry are a different story, but not the one asked.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Will a post from fifteen years ago on Usenet kill my chances?

Unfrigging amazing...

[ManiacJoe]

9. At the rate some ISPs are dropping Usenet support,

probably not. x(