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November 16, 2008

Obama Wants Applicants' Web-Posting Past and Do You Have a Gun?




Obama Wants Applicants' Web-Posting Past

CBS

Questionnaire Asks Job Applicants To Document Blog Posts, Comments, Facebook Profiles And More


If you want a job in an Obama administration, be prepared to disclose every blog post or comment you've ever written.

A ...nine-page questionnaire ......(pdf file) requires applicants to list -- and if possible, provide copies of -- all "posts or comments on blogs or other Web sites" they have ever made. Also required are "aliases" or nicknames used on those sites.

Translated into English, this means that President-elect Obama wants to know far more about you than his predecessors did. That requirement would force applicants to disclose information about Facebook and MySpace pages, profiles posted on dating Web sites, and even what was posted on Web sites like CNET and YouTube that allow readers to append comments.

Note that question doesn't only ask for potentially embarrassing or incendiary posts. It wants a list of "each" one.

It also asks for the URLs of "any Web sites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity," and suggests MySpace and Facebook by name as examples. Dating sites like Match.com would be included, too.

Perhaps this won't be a problem for older Democrats vying for senior positions like treasury secretary or attorney general. But for today's Facebook-and-YouTube generation, requesting a list (and, "if readily available," a copy) of all Web site posts and comments the applicant ever made is not a trivial task to complete -- and means that the Obama administration may not be quite as tech-savvy as its reputation would indicate.

These and other questions seem to represent Obama's plan to avoid the the Lani Guinier Effect. President Clinton appointed Guinier as assistant attorney general, and then was forced to withdraw her nomination in the face of severe criticism. Clinton claimed at the time that he had not read her writings favoring racial quotas.

Clinton also was forced to withdraw the nominations of Zoe Baird and Judge Kimba Wood for attorney general because of questions about whether they paid employment taxes for their nannies. President George W. Bush had the same problem with former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, appointed to be Homeland Security secretary.

Obama's questionnaire seeks to remedy that problem. It asks four questions about domestic help, including housekeepers, babysitters, nannies, and gardeners. It asks about child support payments, information about enemies that may "criticize" your nomination, tax returns, loans, jobs held abroad, and so on.

One question asks: "Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information."

That's raised eyebrows among gun owners -- and drawn fire from the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action--because there is no general federal requirement that guns be registered. Under federal law, it's possible to be given a firearm by a family member or purchase one from a private party without your name being included in a federal database. (Laws in a handful of states, including California, are more restrictive.)

In a 1996 survey sent to state politicians, Obama said he supports a law banning the "possession" of handguns. He also indicated he supported Washington, D.C.'s gun ban, which was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. His campaign Web site said the Second Amendment protects an individual right and noted that "millions of hunters and shooters own and use guns every year," but did not mention firearms used for self-defense.




Wild Thing's comment...........

Well shoot, there goes my future job. LMAO Hey Barack, you show me yours and I'lll show you mine. hahaahaha Oh my gawd!

1984 has nothing on Barack Hussein Obama's 2008/2009.

Did anyone else here that????? Free speech flying out the window.

Applicants being vetted more thoroughly than Obama was. LOL What a fraud he is, what a liar, racist, terrorist lover,power hungry, limp wristed jerk.


Here is one for HO-bama

[ ] YES [ ] NO
Were you born in Kenya?


To this day we know basically nothing about Obama. Yet the SOB wants the most intimate details of others' lives.

Funny what he demands of others yet refuses to provide himself.

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on the Confirmation of Judge John Roberts

http://obama.senate.gov/press/050922-remarks_of_sena/

"Let me also say that I remain distressed that the White House during this confirmation process, which overall went smoothly, failed to provide critical documents as part of the record that could have provided us with a better basis to make our judgment with respect to the nomination. This White House continues to stymie efforts on the part of the Senate to do its job. I hope with the next nominee who comes up for the Supreme Court that the White House recognizes that in fact it is its duty not just to the Senate but to the American people to make sure we can thoroughly and adequately evaluate the record of every single nominee who comes before us."


Posted by Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:55 AM


Comments

Didn't they scream invaision of privacy over homeland security listening in on overseas phone calls to Terrorists (?) and violating the first Amendment.

Why do they need to know if an applicant owns a gun. If said applicant wanted to give Barry a cranial implant, he/she sure as hell aint gonna use a registered fire arm.

This is just the tip of the ice berg, the worst is yet to come.

Posted by: Mark at November 16, 2008 07:31 AM


B. Hussein couldn't get hired in his own administration. He won't answer the question of his birth certificate or produce it to the court. The Supreme Court should stay his nomination until he produces these documents including if he was as a child an Indonesian citizen and did his mother renounce his U.S. citizenship to do so. He should have until 12/31/08 to produce these or resign as president elect.

Posted by: Bob A at November 16, 2008 08:54 AM


On my last Cold War airlift mission to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Semipalantinsk (Mongolian border MIG 29 air base)in the Soviet Union after Chernoble's meltdown, we chatted with some Russkies in Red Square (KGB escort types)and they sipped our Jack Daniels and we their Stoli..They said, "We knew we could nuke one another, but what the Soviets feared MOST were the 'Americanskis' that owned GUNS in their homes, militias and on their own person!" I never forgot this FACT and Cold War opinion Team Theodore...NEVER! God bless our precious 2nd Amendment RIGHTS!

Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at November 16, 2008 09:00 AM


“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”--Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

In the above quote, Yamamoto, who studied in the US wasn't talking about the military. His concern was over the heavily armed American populace.

Posted by: BobF at November 16, 2008 09:30 AM


BobA-good comment, B Huessein couldn't get hired in his own administration.

This most secretive man wants all the personal info on other people. He covers up or denies his own past, yet wants others to list their most mundane activities. Perhaps he will want to know all about your sex life with your spouse also. Or how frequently you urinate.

Posted by: TomR at November 16, 2008 10:45 AM


[X] YES [ ] NO
Were you born in Kenya?

[X] YES [ ] NO
Are you a Marxist?

[X] YES [ ] NO
Are you a Totalitarian?

Whatever is imposed on the hiring of the Obama staff will by transliteration be imposed upon the rank and file outside the Whitehouse.

This alone justifies his Gestapo.

J.Edgar Hoover, was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924 by Calvin Coolidge, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. That's 48 years of the tyrannical little bastard using his power to harass and intimidate all those around him. That man abused his power at the behest of presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. A lot like Che Gevara who is going to be Obama's axeman?
That Communist Croat and ranking CPC member Dennis Kucinich is vindictive enough and has all the makings of an Adolf Eichmann in Obama's NSDAP. Kucinich is for kucinich and he will be a pliant useful tool for Obama until he has all the card on his side them lookout.
Dennis has been the sponsor of impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney, the 'warcrimes tribunal' he feels they should be tried under in an obsession, like all totalitarians it will not stop at the two they have targeted, it always devolves and as the saying goes shit runs downhill. Stay armed and stay free.


Posted by: Jack at November 16, 2008 11:37 AM


This is very disturbing and intrusive. I would not want him poking into my past when I can't poke into his.
I think we elected someone who really does not exist.
Funny how his parents and grandparents are either dead or unapproachable in any way, shape or form.
I almost think we elected the Manchurian Candidate.

Posted by: Lynn at November 16, 2008 01:59 PM


Mark, your right, they made a huge fuss about Profiling people and all you said.
When I had my gift shop and hired people I had to be careful of the questions I asked possible employees or I could get in trouble.

And the gun thing, to not only want to know if the person has a gun but any family members as well.......sheesh. Like asking the person to turn in family members.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:02 PM


Bob A, your so right, no way could Obama get hired by himself. hahaa Now how weird is that.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:06 PM


Darth, wow, that is such a great quote. Thank you so much.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:09 PM


BobF, that is a good quote too. I sure like how leaders and citizens of other countries have realized how we are about guns and protecting ourselves. That we do think for ourselves and very much intend to defend our loved ones and our property.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:12 PM


Tom, exactly...... "This most secretive man wants all the personal info on other people".....double standard to the max.

That thing about guns too, so I guess if a person is willing to tell of family members with guns, then Obama will know they can count on them to tell other things about their friends and family. Very bad, so wrong.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:15 PM


And the gun thing, to not only want to know if the person has a gun but any family members as well.......sheesh. Like asking the person to turn in family members.

Wt, Good response. I won't say whether I have or don't have a gun but an intruder breaking through the front door will know the answer. That is a question none of us should answer. I may not have a gun but a baseball bat or a pretty good sized knife. Not of the kitchen variety but that would work.

Posted by: Bob A at November 16, 2008 05:15 PM


Jack thank you so much for putting that in your comment. I didn't remember a lot of that.

And that Dennis the jerk is really upsetting what he wants. No way imo have there been war crimes.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:20 PM


Lynn, yes he is horrrrrrible!!!!

Even if none of us have anything to hide that really does not matter. If we said one thing or posted one thing even a graphic, Obama could say we were traitors? I mean if it got to that and he wanted to. So kiss my I did not vote for you Obama butt. haha I am not going to change my beliefs for him no matter what.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:25 PM


Bob A, years ago when I did a lot of modeling. I always kept a baseball bat in my car just in case. I had a friend that was also a model and she learned the hard way that not having something to protect herself was a big mistake.

Posted by: Wild Thing at November 16, 2008 05:28 PM


Barack Obama's big government gun control wish list is well known. You can tell what type of government he will rule by the gun control company that he keeps.
http://gifu.cool.ne.jp/gunnuts/img/gun_control_works2.JPG

Posted by: Les at November 16, 2008 07:54 PM