Yes we can…ask you a long list of really personal information if you want a job with me.
One of the staff on RawPolitics.tv almost made Real World V (the Miami season). He eventually lost his spot on the show to Mike, the dude who had the threesome in the bathroom. Life is cruel sometimes.
Anyway, the first step on getting on the show was to fill out a 63-item or so questionnaire detailing every possible aspect of one’s life that one would never really want to put to print.
Apparently Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray put together the job application for roles in Barack Obama’s administration, because if you want a position, here are some of the 63 or so items you’ll need to fill out:
Have you had any association with any person, group or business venture that could be used — even unfairly — to impugn or attack your character or qualifications for government service? (better known as the “Bill Ayers Question“)
Names and phone numbers of past live-in lovers (in our case, we hope they’ve left room so we can write on the back)
Do you have any enemies. (ditto)
Details on any child support or alimony orders. (they probably wouldn’t find “none that I know of” as funny as we do)
Immigration status of any domestic help the applicant may have hired.
Turning over of personal diaries.
They also want to know about any Facebook pages or blogs.
If you make it past the first round of this process, you have to battle the other “finalists” in a little thing Obama likes to call The Guantlet.
Because, you know, he’s not a celebrity like Barack Obama or anything, John McCain did his first post-election TV interview on Jay Leno.
Not sure why Bob Dole, Al Gore, and now John McCain seem 100000% more real, genuine, likable, and electable after losing elections, but they do.
In somewhat related news, Sarah Palin (who McCain is not blaming for the loss) will be on Larry King to answer some awkward and softball questions Wednesday night.
Lindsay Lohan is hot and slutty so she can pretty much say whatever she wants and that’s cool by us, but still, didn’t we stop referring to African-Americans as “coloreds” around 1958. Seriously it’s been like 50 years since we did that, right?
Not sure what the appropriate greeting is here (Happy Veteran’s Day?), but whatever it is, anyone who fought for our country so we could live a better, safer life is a badass who deserves our respect. So we here at RawPolitics.tv just wanna say thanks.
Thanks to reader Robert for the below photos of Barack Obama’s election night celebration in Grant Park. Most were taken by camera phone. Some of the actual scene some off the jumbo tron positioned there.
Sarah Palin keeps getting hotter. According to Newsweek:
At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys’ club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. “I’ll be just a minute,” she said.
This is all speculation, but conservative Fox News is running it so there could be some truth to it. According to sources, after being tabbed as John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin in debriefing meetings didn’t know what countries were part of NAFTA or that Africa was a continent. So she must’ve been really confused where this Barack Obama fella came from…
She’d also look at her press clippings in the morning and would be reduced to tears.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Let’s hope she doesn’t run in 2012.
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