Is This A DOJ Job Interview Or A Tryout For Hell's Softball Team?

"What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?"

This is the question allegedly asked by Asst. Attorney General (and obcessed fan of the Big W) Monica Goodling when interviewing applicants for, not political posts, but career (in theory nonpartisan) jobs. This is being seen as perhaps, just maybe, a little over the line, but I have a different view.

Man, that's just fucking creepy. I can't imagine going for a job interview and being asked that question unless it was with, oh I don't know, let's see, maybe SATAN!!! Or Yog-Sothoth or Jim Jones maybe. I could see Squeaky Fromme asking that as you applied for a position in the Manson Family.

"What is it about Bill Gates that makes you want to serve him?" (Actually, that may be a question at MicroSoft).

But the President of the United States? That's just so wrong. People working for the US government may or may not serve at the pleasure of the President (meaning that he can fire them at any time for any or no reason), but they're not supposed to be serving him. They're supposed to be serving the people of the nation.

The whole neocon movement, for a bunch of people who claim to care so much about the original intent of The Constitution, just don't seem to understand it at all.