Working for Obama means baring your digital soul
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- November
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Forget about working for Obama if you ever shot off a less-than-tender text message to an ex-flame.
Or get ready to do some serious explaining in a 7-page, 63-question application for a coveted spot in the Obama administration.
This ultimate interrogation barely stops short of asking applicants how much time they served in detention as a sixth grader.
Aps are asked to list every single website in which they appear and whether they have ever sent a text, email or IM that could be “a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family or President-elect.”
Um, who hasn’t?
Oh yeah, and they should also remember to include all aliases or “handles” they have used on the Internet, in addition to any blogs or comments they authored that may be floating around in cyberspace.
As one 20-something blogger notes (yes, there is a 20-something angle) tracing ones’ electronic history will only get trickier as the century plods along.
In the next several decades, are future presidential aides going to have to list that they used the AIM screen name 2Hawt4U as a high school sophomore? What about those Shutterfly pics of a beer pong tourney from a frat party in 2003 or that dating website they joined as a 29-year-old?
It will take some serious sifting through millions of Google results.
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)










