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Dignity of the "Obama Staff"
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Posted on 12/05/2008 9:44:39 AM PST by dascallie

Updated 9:22 p.m. By Al Kamen

Question No. 58 in the transition team vetting document for the Obama White House asks that applicants: "Please provide the URL address of any websites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity (e.g. Facebook, My Space, etc.)"

Question No. 63 asks that applicants "please provide any other information ... that could ... be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect."

For a while there this afternoon, President-elect Barack Obama's immensely talented chief speechwriter, 27-year-old Jon Favreau, might have been pondering how to address that question.

That's when some interesting photos of a recent party he attended -- including one where he's dancing with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of secretary of state-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and another where he's placed his hand on the cardboard former first lady's chest while a friend is offering her lips a beer -- popped up on Facebook for about two hours. The photos were quickly taken down -- along with every other photo Favreau had of himself on the popular social networking site, save for one profile headshot.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary; obama; obamatransitionfile

1 posted on 12/05/2008 9:44:39 AM PST by dascallie
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To: dascallie

LMAO !!

They all have to put Free Republic on their resume !


2 posted on 12/05/2008 9:48:14 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: dascallie

Incoming Obama administration director of speechwriting Jon Favreau (L) and a friend pose with a cardboard cutout of incoming Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a party. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

3 posted on 12/05/2008 9:48:17 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

Oh boy, is that going to hurt!


4 posted on 12/05/2008 9:52:14 AM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: Squantos
They all have to put Free Republic on their resume !

ROFL!

5 posted on 12/05/2008 9:53:30 AM PST by Allegra
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To: TexasCajun

Good save!


6 posted on 12/05/2008 9:53:49 AM PST by Joiseydude (Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,)
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To: dascallie

better keep that resume updated, johnny!


7 posted on 12/05/2008 9:54:54 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: dascallie

ROTFLMAO


8 posted on 12/05/2008 10:06:13 AM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: dascallie

NO worries...Hussein’s staff are qualified by the fact that they’ve touched the hem of his garment.


9 posted on 12/05/2008 10:11:36 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Joiseydude
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Hussein's speech writer. Class.

10 posted on 12/05/2008 10:14:12 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

They saying, “Too bad Hillary, we turned AVS off and now we can raise money from overseas, after all, Obama is from overseas ...”


11 posted on 12/05/2008 10:16:42 AM PST by Scythian
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To: dascallie
I think a valid reply would be:
"Nope. All my embarrassing stuff is locked up in a vault in Hawaii."
12 posted on 12/05/2008 10:29:10 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Scythian

I really have to question this guys lack of judgment. (No, not the lack of judgment to appear in that picture, but to CONSIDER TOUCHING EVEN A CARDBOARD VERSION OF HER THIGHNESS’S BOOB!!!) HA HA HA!


13 posted on 12/05/2008 10:29:13 AM PST by TomKOne
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To: dascallie
I think a valid reply would be:
"Nope. All my embarrassing stuff is locked up in a vault in Hawaii."
14 posted on 12/05/2008 10:29:39 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: TexasCajun

Priceless! The “Internet generation” of political operatives is going to be fun to watch... Popping more corn.


15 posted on 12/05/2008 11:02:19 AM PST by AmericanGirlRising (The cow is in the ditch. We know how it got there. Now help me get it out!)
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To: TexasCajun

Huma is not impressed.


16 posted on 12/05/2008 11:07:34 AM PST by rod1
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To: dascallie
Here is Gov (commerce secretary elect)Bill Richardson saying in Spanish that Obama is an "immigrant." (So he understands understands "immigrant" issues.)

You've heard people say "do not listen to what Israelis or Palestinians say in English. Listen to what they say in Hebrew and Arabic.

I wonder if the same rule applies here.

Maybe not.

Here in plain English is the Kenyan Ambassador saying that Obama is born in Kenya.
17 posted on 12/05/2008 12:31:21 PM PST by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: TexasCajun

Classy...
Wait - isn’t this conduct sexist?


18 posted on 12/05/2008 5:31:39 PM PST by 4Liberty (Discount window +fractional reserve banking = moral hazard + bank corporate welfare + Inflation tax)
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