Posted on 11/13/2008 11:04:40 AM PST by Abathar
President-Elect Tries To Weed Out Controversial Candidates
Applicants for President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet get ready to chronicle your life story.
Those interested in joining Obama's administration have to pass an extensive background test.
The questionnaire, the New York Times reported, 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, the Times said.
Obama wants applicants to “list all aliases or ‘handles’ you have used to communicate on the Internet,” and asks people to include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook.com pages.
Hoping to weed out anyone with ties to companies at the center of the $700 billion bailout, 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 getting a government bailout.
“President-elect Obama made a commitment to change the way Washington does business, and the vetting process exemplifies that,” Stephanie Cutter, chief spokeswoman for the Obama transition office, told the Times.
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Next time I’ll take the elevator.
Who’s checking on the checker’s?
bttt
Yep.
0bama couldn’t pass his own background check.
He couldn’t even pass the background check to join a small town Police Department
I think the 36,098 posts I have made on Free Republic prior to this one would disqualify me for consideration by any DemocRAT administration.
LOL!!! how about Freddie Mac Board member Rahm Emanuel for starters????????????????? What a joke!
Well, that eliminates me! he wouldn't like w4freedom!
I must not have passed???
Well put. Obama couldn’t pass his own background check.
Can’t a simple CPUSA card suffice to pass the necessary test?
what;s wrong with free republic? not updating.
I’m having trouble accessing FR—is this coming through?
Could HE even pass a background check? NOOOOOOOOO.
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Both Barack Obama and Michelle Obama voluntarily surrendered their law licenses. This exempts them from attending continuing legal education classes and paying annual registration fees. Obama is notoriously tight with a dollar, so he saved himself a few hundred bucks per year by going inactive.
Of course, the non-practicing attorneys constantly identify themselves as lawyers and demanded salaries based upon their holding law licenses, but they are actually forbiddent to practice law by going on inactive status.
If the background checks are as thorough as those the msm sought of Barack Obama, Charlie Manson might well pass them.
12,000 + views. Is that a record?
I must have crashed the system, it was the top story and everyone hit on it while repairs were being made.
It had to do with the work papers, I caught that right away. Someone was thinking Rose Law Firm too...
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