Obama's domain

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air sounds the alarm on a story worth watching. Barack Obama has a new .gov Web site which shares quite a few features with the campaign Web site.

Why does the government need to collect e-mails and addresses from citizens in order to share their stories with the President-Elect? What purpose does the OPE have for this information? Are they hoping to build a list to sell to political allies, or perhaps just to telemarketers to help pay off the deficit? Since this is hosted as a government site, I think they need to explain what official use they will make of this information.

If we’re going to have a perpetual campaign in the next administration, they could at least have the decency to use their private-sector domain name.

Democrats have indulged in quite a number of government initiatives that tend to have the effect of enhancing re-election chances, such as ACORN's focus on registering poor voters and fostering among various groups a dependence on government. It wouldn't be surprising if this Web site turned out as more of the same.

But I'll look forward to the explanation with an open mind.