As if America’s hourly job seekers didn’t have enough to deal with between the tanking economy and the surge of unemployed white collar workers invading their hourly turf, now they have another threat: President Bush.

No, the President isn’t backing any legislation curbing the federal minimum wage or anything like that. In fact, politics aside, the president has been a big supporter of the nation’s hourly workforce for a long time. The problem is that he now may be joining it. Well, not really…

That’s right, when SnagAJob.com Founder and CEO Shawn Boyer was recently honored as the Small Business Person of the Year at the White House, President Bush had some zingers ready for the crowd.

“Now Shawn started off by helping a friend search online for an internship, and he got an idea for a business right there,” Bush said when introducing the SnagAJob.com CEO. “Sometimes that happens. You know, it’s just like, ‘click.’ And the idea was to create a website to help unemployed Americans with [hourly] job opportunities. And – actually, I asked him to leave a business card because it seems like I might be looking here after a while…”

ZING!

The president, who of course was a successful businessman himself with both the Texas Rangers and several oil outfits, probably won’t be filling out applications for summer jobs even though his second term is winding up. But we’re proud to have his support – as well as the support of the 10 MILLION JOB SEEKERS who helped SnagAJob.com win the small business of the year award. Yes, that’s right, we now have 10 million registered job seekers. But we’ll get more into that later…

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