It’s been eight years since my last confession…
The Rachel Maddow Show – which is still missing Rachel Maddow (I like to imagine that she’s sunning herself on a Mexican beach with Keith Olbermann right now) – covered the latest on the Bill/Hillary Clinton story on Monday night:
Say what you like about the Obama team, but at least they’re applying the same standards to absolutely everybody who wants a job in the new White House administration. To wit, the final section on their application form:
“Please provide any other information, including information about other members of your family, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the president-elect.”
All the Bill shenanigans aside: it’s a bit of a tricky one, that, eh? I mean, who’s to know what Barack himself would find embarrassing? Let alone your own family, without declaring it to them in the first place. Are people telling their loved ones about all the naughty things they’ve got up to, in case they get a job in the White House (and imagine how gutting it would be to tell your folks about that incident with the goat, only to not even get an interview for that internship)? Or are applicants just revealing all on this form – and if so, are the HR team at Obama HQ, in fact, acting like a confession box? Wow. I mean, I know he’s not the Messiah. But who knew Barack was so pope-like?
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November 20th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Don’t blame Barack, blame the system (e.g. increasing media scrutiny and the certainty of GOP vendettas, let alone lessons learned during the Clinton administration!)
November 21st, 2008 at 8:27 am
good point! yes, I don’t really blame him. I guess this is how things work when you want to work at a little ol’ place called the White House…