you know that during the oath, the person reading it misspoke and Obama let him correct himself. He was being polite, not that he failed to recite the oath

I don't get why the americans let the old president sit so long after a new one has been duly elected, sounds more like euro-style tardiness to me.
But regardless, if the people and the proper electoral process has elected someone to be president and it's only a delay allowing for a proper transition that is the issue I think it might be close enough to call it .government, only issue being the oath, but since bush has taken the oath twice and broken it within days, I guess americans don't put much stock in oaths anyway.
Oh and don't forget it's not obama that gave himself a .gov address, it had to be approved by the people in charge of managing .gov, he's not in control of that.

If you recall the hints of Obama being a bit of an elitist (when he referred to the bitter Americans clinging to their guns and religion at an ultra-liberal event in San Francisco), is it starting to show through again?

The "office of the president elect"? What exactly is that office, I'm not familiar with it? Does he get paid for it? (not that he needs it) I agree with the blogger - It is a presumptious to be starting a .gov website when you are not formally part of the gov't yet.

It'll be interesting to see what happens on some tech issues - like Biden's friendliness with the MPAA/RIAA, the "fairness" doctrine - those unfamiliar, this is an attempt to limit the amount of right wing programming on the radio and force an even amount of programming, yet would not be applied, conveniently, to any other form of communication. A bit odd as in America one would think with freedom of speech, the radio stations would be able to decide on their own what programming they should have.

I'm just hoping someone who won 5.3 votes out of every 10, doesn't over-reach and is truly as mainstream and bi-partisan as his rhetoric suggests; unfortunately his limited voting record in the Senate suggests the exact opposite (not that anyone cares).

All pundits, domestic and foreign, don't really supply formal proof that their assertions are anything more than people farting. 

"Obviously a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me," said Mr Obama.

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