"Someone please drown out my laughter by chanting something about Obama and that Hope-'n-Change stuff."

LOL, loudly singing over here
"Kool-Aid Kool-Aid tastes great W
Wish I had some -- Can't wait!"

DW,

Love the graphic above. As for the all star line up of insider foxes slated to guard the cyber chicken coop as you round up below:

"So, what kind of people are being put on this important policy formation committee? Among others, Blair Levin, a telecom investment analyst; Julius Genachowski, former chief counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt; and Sonal Shah, head of Google.org, which is Google's "global philanthropy" front."

(Oh boy, don't even get me started about that whole Google 'philanthropy' front business and what that org is all about when it comes to trashing jobs for the locals here-- too close to home.)

Has anyone else wondered why President-elect Barry isn't knocking himself out trying to see those Verizon snoops get canned for hacking his phone calls? Dude must really value his right to privacy, hey? In the words of our House Speaker, is that "the kind of leadership we deserve?"

As your President 2.0 Edition suggests, this time around, it won't matter who we'd rather have a latte or Spanish Iberian ham with, since we'll be told who, what, when and where and how much our carbon footprint costs and how we'll do it or we won't do it gleefully since, you know, it's a "new day" and "yes, we can..."

Sounds to me like they're gonna need somebody to monitor the levels of tranquilizers in the water supply and chemtrails and crank up the dosage if need be.

War bad he black!
War bad he black!
War bad he black!

Caught it first at Cryptogon
SCOOP: McCain and Obama Camps Coordinated on Building Staff Rosters for Next Government

A senior Obama campaign official shared with The Washington Note that in July 2008, the McCain and Obama camps began to work secretly behind the scenes to assemble large rosters of potential personnel for the administration that only one of the candidates would lead.

Lists comprised of Democrats and Republicans were assembled, sorted into areas of policy expertise, so that the roster could be called on after the election by either the Obama or McCain transition teams.

This kind of out-of-sight coordination is rare between battling presidential camps and provides some indication that both Obama and McCain intended to draw expertise into their governments from both sides of the aisle -- or at least they wanted to appear interested in doing so if the information leaked out about the list development process.

Fascinating tidbit on cooperation behind battle lines.

Yep, that's about the size of it. NPR's Talk of the Nation today had Matt Bai and another speaking talking about Obama's netroots fans. Basically, Obama threw them under the bus after he won. And they were hoping for such great things. . .

Bai said that bloggers had some "small" positive effect, but basically Obama "owned" the internet movement on his behalf. Great gobs of thanks there for the poor freelancing saps who worked without pay on his behalf.