What the hell is the “Office of the President-Elect?”

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Michelle Malkin What the hell is the “Office of the President-Elect?” And why is it still attacking McCain?

By Michelle Malkin • November 7, 2008 04:18 PM
Scroll down for updates…reader Patrick e-mails: “The Office of the President-elect comes from the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. Stephanopoulos signed letters back in 1992 from the ‘Office of the President-elect.’ That said, I agree that ‘change.gov’ and all of that is ostentatious. Let Obama have his fun now. Come January, the buck stops with him, and no amount of ‘branding’ or voting ‘present’ will save him.”

Okay, it’s one thing to take your campaign website, transfer it to a dot-gov domain, and invent an “Office of the President-Elect” out of whole cloth.
But now we’ve got Sen. Obama standing in front of a podium, in front of the world, for his first transitional press conference with an official-looking sign that reads “Office of the President-Elect.” Is that the official seal of the U.S. on the sign? Do they have authority to use it? What other make-believe offices are they going to invent between now and Inauguration Day? I can’t ever recall in my lifetime any mention of such an office. Can you?
Gah:

C’mon. It’s creepy.
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Question: Why is the Office of the President-Elect’s .gov website still attacking the “McCain plan?” (hat tip - reader JB)
Here’s the screenshot in case they scrub it…



WTF? I wonder if the MSM finds this creepy as well?