Or not.

“Six Agencies Illegally Scoured Joe the Plumber’s Records for Dirt, Including Office of the Attorney General, So That Information Could Be Turned Over to National Media.”
That’ll teach him!
But the bigger question being asked by Americans today is this: Could Obama get a job in the Obama administration?

On Thursday’s front page, the New York Times revealed that President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, apparently intent on avoiding personal scandals and ethics embarrassments, is requiring prospective staffers to answer what is probably the most exhaustive disclosure questionnaire ever written by an incoming administration.
It includes questions such as “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun?” and “If you have ever sent an electronic communication, including but not limited to an email, text message or instant message, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe.”
And this: “If you keep or have every kept a diary that contains anything that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe.”

Well that throws a cold, wet blanket on the “Hillary for State” speculation, no?

$600 million doesn’t go as far as it used to. The candidate of hope needs a little more change.

“Iraq bombings show progress, challenges”

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Update!

(h/t Dutch Canuck)

Nice move, rookie;

Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim.
“Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel,” a top Bush source warned.
“BUSH AND OBAMA AT ODDS OVER AID FOR AUTO INDUSTRY,” splashed the NEW YORK TIMES in an exclusive Monday evening, quoting “people familiar with the discussion.”
The two met at the White House in private, without staff.

But that’s not all…. from Ayers to the IRA to palling around with Hamas. More on that here;

That Malley would be working on Middle East policy for the new administration is troubling enough, but the fact they’ve now repeatedly been dishonest about his involvement in the campaign makes it much worse.

(So, should people speculate as to where this leak came from?)

“The page you requested is not available right now”.

It’s barely worth mentioning, because it’s so obvious, that if a GOP president-elect were engaging in this kind of scrubbing, it would be getting saturation Old Media coverage

h/t
More – “Agenda disappears from Obama Web site”

A new administration, a new approach in the hunt for Bin Laden. Start small, and work your way up.