Tell one, tell all

Posted by on 11/17 at 11:00 AM

Have you heard about the questionnaire the Obama transition team has worked up for potential administration hires?

It’s possibly the most comprehensive document ever given to non-intelligence government employees.

And if you want a job with the Obama Administration, we hope you keep good records. They want a copy of every resume and biographical statement that has been issued by you or on yor behalf over the past 10 years.

Do you now or have you ever kept a diary? Turn it over.

Ever shack up or live-in with a romantic liaison? Uncle Barack and Uncle Rahm want to hear all about them.

Facebook? MySpace? Obama wants to be your “friend.“

Do you own a gun? Does any member of your family own a gun? The president-elect wants to know about it.

On that last point, the Obama team’s curiosity has raised the hackles of gun-rights advocates, who make no bones about their distaste for the transition team’s reach into what they consider an individual right.

Although he’s been squishy on it in the past, after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision earlier this year recognized for the first time that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to bear arms, Obama said he agreed with the Court’s decision and that gun ownership was an individual right.

Obama also believes that abortion is an individual right. When Obama spoke to a Planned Parenthood gathering during the campaign last year, he said that the “first thing I’d do as president” (1:31) would be to sign the “Freedom of Choice Act,“ legislation recognizing an individual right to abortion. Pro-life advocates say FOCA would supersede any and all state restrictions on abortion.

SIDEBAR: The irony of that position is that pro-choice advocates often oppose abortion restrictions at the federal level because they believe abortion regulations should be left to the states to decide. But then they support FOCA, which would undermine those very regulations at the state level. END SIDEBAR

Go with me on this for a minute. If Obama believes that gun ownership is an individual right, and Obama believes that abortion is an individual right, then while he’s inquiring about their gun ownership, why isn’t he also asking potential employees whether they have had an abortion?

Ridiculous, isn’t it?

You can read the extremely thorough job application here.

One more thing: I’d like to see this application filled out by the president-elect himself.

... And I wonder what it will look like once Hillary is done with it.




Can see the reason for asking, embarrassments during the confirmation hearings could derail those first 100 days.

Would be fun reading if all the forms were made public but some how I don’t see it happening.

Posted by  on  11/17  at  12:51 PM
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