Commentary: Donaldson Examines Obama Job Application

I don't think any normal person could honestly answer all these 63 questions in a way that would never raise a red flag that someone in the Obama transition team might decide was a disqualifier.

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Then, too, if the president-elect truly means to fill his administration with a cross-section of typical Americans, he needs people who can't answer this questionnaire perfectly.

Why, the rabbi who once angrily knocked over the tables of merchants -- money changers -- certainly an embarrassment in that day to some -- might not pass this one.

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Sam Donaldson, a 41-year ABC News veteran, served two appointments as chief White House correspondent for ABC News, from 1977-1989 and from January 1998 to August 1999, covering Presidents Carter, Reagan and Clinton. Donaldson also co-anchored, with Diane Sawyer, "PrimeTime Live," from August 1989 until it merged with "20/20" in 1999. He co-anchored the ABC News Sunday morning broadcast, "This Week With Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts," from December 1996 to September 2002. Currently, Donaldson appears on ABC News Now, the ABC News digital network, in a daily show called "Politics Live."