The Obama campaign is trying to do its part to bring down that stubbornly high unemployment rate by advertising for people to join its digital team in Chicago.

Advertising on the JobsthatareLEFT electronic job bank, the campaign says it is looking for “talented social media copywriters and strategists” and that the campaign will “run the most effective, creative, and innovative digital campaign in the history of politics.”

Applicants will need to be very social media savvy, especially with Facebook and Twitter, but will also need to possess “a head for politics, a sense of humor, and buckets of common sense,” which apparently the campaign is sorely lacking at this point.

Obama’s campaign was one of the most digital savvy campaigns in 2008 and has continued to build its social media bona fides with the recent Twitter town hall and other forays into the digital world. But unlike 2008 Obama now must run on his actual record as President. With the Facebook generation far less enamored of him, it looks like he is pinning his hopes of winning them back using humor and common sense instead of hope and change.

(h/t New York Observer)

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4 Comments for Help Wanted: Obama Campaign Looking for Someone With Common Sense

Kevin Folino

Permanent jobs would be nice, not temporary/seasonal!

Ted

Well … he sure didn’t find any “common sense” among the Republican mooks and Tbags in Congress over the past 2 1/2 years!

Matthew Rensen

As long as they are looking for image and not substance this administration will lose, big time.
BO’s gotta go.

Michael

Why would anyone other than an unemployed, low self-esteem socialist idiot apply to work with the Barry Soetoro Administration? I guess when you’re corrupt and incompetent, money-whores flock to the smell like flies on s*&t.