"Please furnish copies of all resumes & biographical statements issued by you or any other entity at your discretion sent in the past 10 years."

Oy. Just found a copy of the 63-item questionnaire issued by the Obama administration to any potential appointees:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13apply_questionnaire.pdf

Just trying to read it made my head hurt & my eyes glaze over. Not that I don't like answering surveys (as anybody who's 'friends' with me on MySpace must realize by now), but seriously, these questions are pretty extent. Here's a quick sampling:


II. (10) Writings: Please list and, if readily available, provide a copy of each book, article, column or publication (including but not limited to any posts or comments on blogs or other websites) you have authored, individually or with others. Please list all aliases or "handles" you have used to communicate on the Internet.

II. (14) Diaries: If you keep or have ever kept a diary that contains anything that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe.

III. (16) Please list each membership, including any board memberships, you or your spouse have or have had with any political, civic, social, charitable, educational, professional, fraternal, benevolent or religious organization, private club or other membership organization (including any type of tax-exempt organization) during the past ten years. Please include dates of membership and any positions you may have had with the organization.

IV. (24) Please list all loans in excess of $10,000 made to you or your spouse, or by you or your spouse, which existed at anytime during the past ten years. Please specify the creditor or the debtor, interest rate, due date and any other key terms, and identify the purpose for which the liability was incurred. Please also specify the extent to which any such loans contained terms not generally available to the public, such as below-market rates.

IV. (30) Do you, your spouse, or any membership of your immediate family, or business in which you, your spouse, or immediate family members have a substantial interest, have any relationship with any government, whether federal, state, local, Indian or foreign, through contracts, consulting services, grants, loans or guarantees? If yes, please provide details.


My favorite ones are at the very end, under 'Miscellaneous':


VIII. (58) Please provide the URL address of any websites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity (e.g., Facebook, My Space, etc.)

VII. (59) Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the registration ever lapsed? Please also describe how and by whom it is used and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.


But the best is the very last question, I love the way it's worded:


VIII. (63) 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.


I couldn't answer these without a team of monkey-lawyers working around the clock, and I've never even been in politics, had a bank loan, or owned property.

What's sad though, is that in this current age & day qualifications/experience alone won't get you a position, you also have to be able to cover your, and the President-Elect's, ass from potential embarrassment or litigation.

Hail the Republic.