Posted on 12/06/2008 12:25:07 PM PST by Sub-Driver
300,000 Apply for 3,300 Obama Jobs By NEIL A. LEWIS
WASHINGTON — Brenda Benton, a veteran media relations employee with the Los Angeles Police Department, is now part of a record-breaking political phenomenon.
Ms. Benton was so thrilled with the election of Barack Obama as president that she has become one of about 300,000 people who have, so far, put themselves forward for posts in the new administration. At the equivalent time in the George W. Bush transition eight years ago, with his election still in dispute, there were about 44,000 applicants, according to Clay Johnson, who led the Bush transition effort. Mr. Johnson said the final figure was about 90,000.
In 1968, President-elect Richard M. Nixon’s aides were so uncertain about the availability and willingness of people to take administration jobs that they sent more than 70,000 letters to everyone listed in Who’s Who in America, asking for names of potential federal appointees.
But that is surely not a problem at Obama transition headquarters in Washington, where more than 50 staff aides have been busily classifying and downloading résumés into a computer system that lists applicants’ special skills and, one official said, what notable political sponsors they might have.
The excitement about an Obama administration along with the cyclical pent-up eagerness of Democrats denied the employment bounty of the executive branch for eight years has fueled the surge, although the unraveling economy may be adding its own boost.
The presidential historian Michael R. Beschloss said that “it’s hard to find a parallel in modern times to this degree of enthusiasm for going into government,” all the more striking in a period previously known for cynicism about government employment.
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That’s 300,000 more strait-jackets..
Apply for an obamajob?
LOL!
The less they know about me, the better.
Why not shoot for a Federal job? Hey, work there for 3 years and you have a job for life! With the coming 8 years of a dead economy because of the Marxist Messiah being in Government is the only way to have a cushy, guaranteed income.
If you’re going to suck on the public teat, might as well go whole hog and just get grafted ON to that same teat!
I know Clay Johnson, and he is a nice guy.
Free pies ...
Actually, it could be far worse... if his main supporters had their way (and at times I feared they would), they'd get rid of the private sector entirely.
Resume:
Objective: I needs me a job.
Work History: 2008- I boted for you qwenty-leben times.
What horse$hit.
How can anyone read the NYT?
So we are to believe these unproductive, talentless government employee hogs, feeding at the public trough would do so ONLY in the administration of the sainted Zero but not under the utterly unmatched evil of Richard Nixon or George Bush.
There are so many logical contradictions, not to mention outright propaganda in this piece of garbage, that it doesn’t even meet the journalistic standards of the daily activities newletter on a geriatric cruise ship.
Something must be done to help the 300,000 who the federal government turned down.
Office of the future federal employer.
The Democrats will no doubt hold this up as proof that unemployment is worse than people realize, thanks to Bush.
The Obamafuehrer will need at least 300,000 for his Civilian National Security Force, aka Sturm Abeling.
Its amazing how many people are completley clueless about how the political system really works. Politically appointments are not made from amongst those who voted for the winning candidate and contributed $10 online. It probably takes at least $10K to get someone to read the resume.
no gun owners please.....
That’s about a 1% success rate. It’s better than the odds the American People have of enjoying the next four years.
Maybe I’ll claim affirmative action as a member of a minority (Repub.) . . .
300,000 to choose from and Obama will still end up with the most incompetent people in the country.
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