Pick Me, Pick Me!!

I know you want to be a part of the Obama administration. Well, you might want to think twice about it, because you are going to have to reveal every single thing about yourself.

An application to join Obama’s staff was released on Thursday and it includes questions such as, “Briefly describe the most controversial matters you have been involved with during the course of your career,” and “If you have ever sent an electronic communication, including but not limited to an e-mail, text message or instant message, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe.”

Now, I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I would not want to disclose all the instant messages I have sent over the years. I am sure that sometime over the last five years, I have said something stupid that I would definitely regret.

In an age where technology has escalated dramatically and is a huge part of our lives today, Obama is making sure that no one he chooses has abused it.

When you first see the application, one of two things runs through your mind. First of all, you could be thinking Obama is a genius and a hard-ass and will make sure that no one enters his administration that doesn’t deserve to be there….or you could be thinking Obama is crazy for trying to invade people’s lives to an extent that is completely unnecessary.

I am going to go with the first option. Being the first African American president, as well as entering the oval office during one of the worst periods in American history, Obama cannot afford to make any mistakes. Hiring someone that has a sketchy past and did something that would hurt Obama’s credibility would be disastrous.

An example of surrounding yourself with the wrong people and paying the price would be George W. Bush’s presidency. If you saw the movie “W,” you saw the idiots that Bush surrounded himself with.

Bush is actually pretty smart and was capable of holding a position high up, but he killed any chance he had of succeeding by surrounding himself with absolute morons. The only person Bush had on his staff that knew what he was doing was Colin Powell. Powell was adamantly against the war from day one, but he was outnumbered by the morons.

Because of the poor guidance given to him, Bush became one of the worst presidents ever. Now, Obama wants to make sure he doesn’t follow in the footsteps of Bush, so he is making sure that everyone on his staff is right for the job and will help him succeed.

Although this application exposes a lot about you and invades your privacy, it’s necessary in order to make sure the next four years aren’t like the last eight.

In conclusion, I tip my hat off to you, Mr. Obama. Congratulations on being someone that cares about our country succeeding and will go to extreme lengths to ensure America’ success.