Obama Greasing Skids For More Gov Jobs

[palehorse]

The KSAs are a huge pain in the ass.

This. Good riddance!

They are one of the reasons -- albeit minor -- that I am waiting until 2 Jan 2011 to drop my federal application packets...

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Marlin, is there any truth to a rumor I read on another forum that the government absolutely will not hire anyone who is overqualified in some way for a job, such as not hiring lawyers for paralegal positions?

 

[Jhhnn]

Obama is Kid Break-it. Everything he touches goes to spit. A disaster of a stimulus. A disaster of a health-care bill. A disaster of a bank reform bill. The gulf went to spit without him touching it when he should have.

Obama reminds me of the old Fabian socialist motto "Eat Capitalism - Excrete Socialism". Obama breaks everything he pretends to fix and that's no accident.

Not that I think Obama is a Fabian socialist. I think he is (deep down) more of a fascist like Tom Sowell said.

Remarkable that you'd confirm what I offered... truly remarkable. Apparently your moral and intellectual compass has no sense of direction other than anything he's for, you're against...

Do you really think he's the antichrist? Quote Revelations or something, OK?

 

[Danube]

Remarkable that you'd confirm what I offered... truly remarkable. Apparently your moral and intellectual compass has no sense of direction other than anything he's for, you're against...

Do you really think he's the antichrist? Quote Revelations or something, OK?

Anti-Christ no - Obama is just a broke kid who had a flake mum, a drunk dad who left him and another drunk steppy who chased women and died of liver disease. Obama was then raised spoiled as people paid for him to attend exclusive high schools and colleges. He channels his personal anger at the US and feels noble doing it when hes just a head case like Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, Rahm etc.

Obama and his resentment was captured well by an African who wrote the article below


June 25, 2009 Obama, the African Colonial

By L.E. Ikenga

[FONT=times new roman,times]Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman,times]Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.[/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial.

[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]My friends, despite what CNN and [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]the rest[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel. Many conservative (East, West, South, North) African-Americans like myself -- those of us who know our history -- have seen this movie before. Here are two main reasons why many Americans allowed Obama to slip through the cracks despite all of his glaring inconsistencies: [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]First, Obama has been living on American soil for most of his adult life. Therefore, he has been able to masquerade as one who understands and believes in American democratic ideals. But he does not. Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious. Second, and most importantly, too many Americans know very little about Africa. The one-size-fits-all understanding that many Americans (both black and white) continue to have of Africa might end up bringing dire consequences for this country. [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]Contrary to the way it continues to be portrayed in mainstream Western culture, [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Africa[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] is not a continent that can be solely defined by AIDS, ethnic rivalries, poverty and safaris. Africa, like any other continent, has an immense history defined by much diversity and complexity. Africa's long-standing relationship with Europe speaks especially to some of these complexities -- particularly the relationship that has existed between the two continents over the past two centuries. Europe's complete colonization of Africa during the nineteenth century, also known as the [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Scramble for Africa[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], produced many unfortunate consequences, the African colonial being one of them. [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]The African colonial (AC) is a person who by means of their birth or lineage has a direct connection with Africa. However, unlike Africans like me, their worldviews have been largely shaped not by the indigenous beliefs of a specific African tribe but by the ideals of the European imperialism that overwhelmed and dominated Africa during the colonial period. AC's have no real regard for their specific African traditions or histories. AC's use aspects of their African culture as one would use pieces of costume jewelry: things of little or no value that can be thoughtlessly discarded when they become a negative distraction, or used on a whim to decorate oneself in order to seem exotic. (Hint: Obama's Muslim heritage). [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]On the other hand, AC's strive to be the best at the culture that they inherited from Europe. Throughout the West, they are tops in their professions as lawyers, doctors, engineers, Ivy League professors and business moguls; this is all well and good. It's when they decide to engage us as politicians that things become [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]messy and convoluted[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]. [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]The African colonial politician (ACP) feigns repulsion towards the hegemonic paradigms of Western civilization. But at the same time, he is completely enamored of the trappings of its aristocracy or elite culture. The ACP blames and caricatures [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]whitey[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] to no end for all that has gone wrong in the world. He convinces the masses that various forms of [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]African socialism[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] are the best way for redressing the problems that European colonialism motivated in Africa. However, as opposed to really being a hard-core [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]African Leftist[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] who actually believes in something, the ACP uses socialist themes as a way to disguise his true ambitions: a complete power grab whereby the "will of the people" becomes completely irrelevant.[/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]Barack Obama is all of the above. The only difference is that he is here playing (colonial) African politics as usual. [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]In his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father -- an [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]eloquent[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] piece of political propaganda -- Obama styles himself as a misunderstood intellectual who is deeply affected by the sufferings of black people, especially in America and Africa. In the book, Obama clearly sees himself as an African, not as a black American. And to prove this, he goes on a quest to understand his Kenyan roots. He is extremely thoughtful of his deceased father's legacy; this provides the main clue for understanding Barack Obama. [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]Barack Obama Sr. was an [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]African colonial[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] to the core; in his case, the apple did not fall far from the tree. All of the telltale signs of Obama's African colonialist attitudes are on full display in the book -- from his feigned antipathy towards Europeans to his view of African tribal associations as distracting elements that get in the way of "progress". (On p. 308 of Dreams From My Father, Obama says that African tribes should be viewed as an "ancient loyalties".)[/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]Like imperialists of Old World Europe, the ACP sees their constituents not as free thinking individuals who best know how to go about achieving and creating their own means for success. Instead, the ACP sees his constituents as a flock of ignorant sheep that need to be led -- oftentimes to their own slaughter. [/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times]Like the European imperialist who spawned him, the ACP is a destroyer of all forms of democracy[/FONT]

[FONT=times new roman,times] http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/obama_the_african_colonial.html


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[Jhhnn]

Marxist! Elitist!

Nice psycho-babble hatchet job from Ikenga, too, wh's just calling Obama an oreo... panderng to a different kind of racism...

 

[Vette73]

Marlin, is there any truth to a rumor I read on another forum that the government absolutely will not hire anyone who is overqualified in some way for a job, such as not hiring lawyers for paralegal positions?

No. Most lawyers get hired on as assitant legal something something. They don;t get the full "lawyer" title till they get MAYBE a GS-13 level?

But for HR we send up all those that meet the specs of the position. Now the selecting offical can decide on any reason to select or not select a eprson, outside of race, sex, etc... of course.

 

[Vette73]

This. Good riddance!

They are one of the reasons -- albeit minor -- that I am waiting until 2 Jan 2011 to drop my federal application packets...

If you want a Gov job I would not wait. Rumor is there will be a hiring freeze for many agencies next budget year (October).