So, while Obama and Biden are doing their very best to make it look like it’s an official government entity, it is not.  But it isn’t just a fabrication either.  Technically, if I had a secretary, I could have said secretary answer the phone “Office of Donkephant”.  Much like Obama can have his secretary at his government funded office answer his phone as “Office of the President-Elect”.  He is the President-Elect.  And it is his office.

That aside, I think the way that Obama and Biden are using the name and unofficial seal as well as the website is horribly misleading.  As further evidence of the office not being an official office of the U.S. Governement, the bottom of the website for the “Office of the President-Elect” has the following:

Content copyright © 2008 by Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization. All rights reserved.

I’m no lawyer, and I would have to be to fully research and understand the law, but I believe if it were an official office of the U.S. Government, it would not have that and would instead say something about it being property of the U.S. Governement.  Or it would have nothing in the footer, much like the whitehouse.gov and the usa.gov sites.

Finally, while it isn’t an official government website, it does appear to have the approval of the government. As far as I can tell, you can’t just go and register a .gov domain like you can a .com or .net.  You’ve got to get approval.  It might be noted that there are those who don’t think this was a legal use of the .gov domain, but I haven’t researched that at all.  Also, there hasn’t been much of anything from the established administration about it.  At least not that I’ve read or heard.

My guess is that the current administration is content to let Obama get away with it.  It creats a distraction.  The longer the buzz last from the election, the longer the people don’t feel the full effects of what is going on around them with the economy, job market, and the world.

I can’t say that the results are particularly pleasing to me, but an election was won tonight.  And as such, we must support the will of our fellow Americans.  All that’s left for me is to hope that the Hope that you all voted for today wasn’t/isn’t a false hope.  That the change that Obama claims to be bringing is change for the better.

Each has the campaign logo of the opposite candidate.  So, the McCain logo becomes the Obama shirt and the Obama logo becomes the McCain shirt.  Really quite interesting.  A play on whether we really pay attention to any of the wording after we get familiar with the logos of the places.

Too bad the platforms aren’t a little more interchangeable as well.