It is great to see so many citizens getting involved in Government. This is a sign that our nation is moving positively forward. If our citizens do not get involved, then our great democracy will fail. That cannot be allowed to ever happen. That is fact!

As a manager who hires and fires; it is safe to assume that 2/3 are probably not qualified.  Did anyone catch Colbert's 'interview' for an Obama post last night?  Now that was hysterical.

Hey Clara that Colbert routine was totally hilarious, both parts but especially last night's.  Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have been so funny since the election even though they no longer have the indecision '08 stuff to work with.  I really love Colbert's "The Word" segments.

Wow that's a lot of applications the Obama team has received.  Looks like the only one hiring is the Obama administration and I can't wait for them to hand out pink slips to every bushleague appointee.  Someone is going to have job security going through those applications.

Well that incredible amount of enthusiasm Obama’s offer will certainly help the economy. That’s one big challenge that will help to stop the estimated 6 million USA jobs going to India next year at a time of 7% & growing unemployment.
No wonder people all across the country are carrying that same energy into the transition; and the team doesn't seem terribly surprised by the influx of applications.

I agree Clara. I can't count how many ridiculous resumes I have been forced to read but it's great to see so many people wanting to do there part. The Colbert interview was absolutely hilarious!

Hey full Moon! Do you have anything intelligent to say ever? Can you use just one fact to back up your ridiculous doom and gloom scenarios that all of us liberals are soon to endure with our crazy ideology? Just one little fact to replace your lame attempts at wit and sarcasm? Do you realize how desperate you constantly sound defending what your party has done to this country in the last 8 years...actually since your messiah Ronald Reagan took office? Go read a book!

I hope those who are fairly intelligent and who might be a positive force for the Obama administration kept their reusmes short (one page) and used that page to specifically explain to the Obama transition team what exactly it is they could do or improve for this country in the job for which they were applying.

Any resumes 3 pages or longer should be set aside. Any resumes describing the applicant more than describing what the applicant can do and hopes to achieve should be set aside.

Any applicant that states they can play a decent game of basketball should be placed in a special pile to be referred too when Obama would be seeking a few folks to have a quick pick-up game or two in the evening or on the weekend.    

Our politician's have a wife and family ... and they have a mistress. They could end this recession right now, make it possible for us to have jobs, but they don't and it looks like they wont. Their mistress is smitten with "free trade" and scours the world looking for the cheapest production costs, hands out her favors to those politician's so as to avoid taxes or trade tariff's or regulations. The mistress is spending up the savings and spending us into debt so deep it is problematic that the children will starve this winter. And, the long suffering wife and family? They are back home, so long as they have a home, getting angrier by the day. They voted for hope and change and look to be getting the same self serving insiders that served that Wall Street-corporate wh*re of a mistress. Just forget Georgia. Congress, Mr. Obama, don't even THINK about enlarging the H1-B visa program. Don't imagine you can get away with not passing punitive taxes on companies and investors that outsource jobs. Business as usual is OVER and you had better listen because we're beginning to think that a divorce sounds like a pretty good idea, and we wont be waiting until the next election with all of those empty promises to leave the mistress if given just "one more chance". We stopped believing in that when Mr. Obama proposed to staff his cabinet with the same free trade swine we have seen for years.

For all those saying Obama's choice of Clinton people it is not change, give the guy a chance.  He is smart and knows what he is doing...remember that is why he was elected.  This guy is cool and collected and knows how to use the best minds in the country to do the best job.  His goal is to achieve something bigger than himself.  I am excited already by what I see.

Mike, Eugene, OR, would you please let PE Obama get his Cabinet and team in place BEFORE you start threatening "divorce"?  You have no idea what they will try to accomplish - but as Obama keeps reminding us there is only one president at a time.  Let Bush and the current Congress do what they will in this lame duck period.  After January 20th you can start observing a new era.  

At that point, then you can start complaining about what is and isn't being done.  But right now it's all subjecture on your part.  It's the same old negative attitude that we simply don't need right now.

Clara, I always love to read what you have to say.  Don't stop.  I wish I would have seen the Colbert "interview".  Anyone know if it's available on the net?

Mike, Eugene, Oregon - Here is another example of someone who thinks the change Obama has talked about is all about who he selects for his cabinet.
The fact of the matter is that because of the way the government, lobbying, and the corporate world are set up, you are going to get "repeat" people in cabinet positions?  What kind of change are you looking for?  Someone like Joe the Plumber to lead a cabinet post?  We need experienced people in those positions, which is what Obama has done to this point.
And the change Obama referred to is in politics and governance.  You can put people in positions of power you disagree with, but unlike the Bush administration, where it seemed Cheney pulled many of the strings, Obama will be the only one in charge.  He has called for (and continues to call for) a change in the way we govern.  He's not talking about moving the US away from Democracy (although I'm sure that's the message you hear).  He's talking about a government that actually WORKS for the American citizen.
Everything changes in our world, yet sometimes we govern in the US like we're still fighting the Revolutionary War.  Our world is changing, like it or not, and yet our government cannot keep up with those changes.  Obama is looking to do just that.  Get our government officials looking forward, not back.  Making improvements to how our government works.
These changes won't happen overnight, in a week, month, or year.  It requires our country's citizens to "think outside the box" and realize we can do much better for our country if we work together.  But it sounds like that's asking too much from you.  Too bad for you as you will be left behind while our country moves forward.  But that will be your loss, not our country's loss.

If these resumes are anything like the Obama voters who didn't know who Pelosi, Ayers, Wright or Barney Frank was (you all know where I'm going with this), then I wouldn't take any of them seriously.

Why aren't people talking about Cheney & Alberto Gonzales being indicted yesterday in Texas?

200,000 resumes make sense considering they are the only ones hiring right now.
I am an engineer out of work since three weeks myself, there is like total hiring freeze everywhere.

Hahaha, Mike. You're pathetic. Remember that Bush had a 90 percent approval rating after 9/11. People at least gave him a chance. I like how you're giving up on Obama before he's taken office. No wonder our economy is in the tank. People don't have any backbone nowaways. As if appointing a member of the old guard to institute DRASTIC healthcare changes isn't, you know, change?

'Bam and his dutiful lemmings carry on the torch of the commies who believe that you grow the economy by creating government jobs. Yea, that's the ticket.

Update:
Over 500,000 resumes have been submitted.  Its called
UNEMPLOYMENT!!!!!!!

Phew am I ever glad I requested consideration for the Department of the Interior ;)

I mean I am because I'd really like to work there but I think there might be fewer applications for positions there :)

This is wonderful news to read that so many people want to be a part of the change movement. I submitted my resume and would love to work for this administration.  

Don't get so anxious. It took Bush eight years for his Barbequeing of our country. Give Obama a chance to get it right. Why so many applications, speaks for itself. The robber barons are going out of vogue really fast, and now the new era of one nation for all is coming back in vogue. Time will tell, yet everyone is anxious.

Obama must be the newest member of Project for  the New American Century buy the looks of his cabinet choices.

"Any resumes 3 pages or longer should be set aside."

Hey, anyone over the age of 40 whose entire career and skills set can fit on one page didn't deserve a job in the first place.

Why do Americans believe everything has to fit a certain format? I want to see what people have done and achieved.  The one pagers are for people who have the buzz words down pat - does that mean they are harder or better workers?

My janitor could easily call herself "sanitation engineer for large corporation" and pretend that all she does is clean...but after 5 years at my office, her total experience is either going to be 2 pages of resume or a very lengthy interview...take your pick and admit the facts: Most employers are just too lazy to look beyond the template.

Well, I submitted my resume a as soon as the site went up so hopefully I'm somewhere at the top of the stack.  Well...here's to hoping at least. =D

That should now count 200,001; just sent mine.

This is a good way to even get into government jobs and a opportunity of a life for the lucky souls who land positions.

Of course there are lots of resumes,look at the economy.

Too bad only a handful will get a job.

With all the unemployed people in our country I would have thought there would have been more than 200,000 applications. Our workers are hurting with all the out sourcing that has happened the past eight years. I just hope it's not too late for Obama to correct this Bush mess.

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