Just Wondering

Now that the press has put Obama in (or nearly in) the White House, will they put him under the scrutiny they neglected during the campaign. For example, will they ask him directly when was the last time he talked to Governor Blagojovich about any subject at all?

Probably not, as commentators are tripping all over themselves to say he had nothing to do with the Governor's little pay for play schemes. Well, Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, said Obama had talked to the Governor about the Senate seat replacement. He's taking it back now, of course ("I misspoke"), but I believe he told the truth earlier.

Will anybody ask the question? Well, if not a reporter, how about a citizen?

Byron York:

It just so happens that The Office of the President-Elect, which should really be called the office of the president-elect, has today started a new feature on its website called "Open for Questions."

The Obama-Biden Transition wants to hear from you. Use our 'Open for Questions' tool to ask a question about a policy or issue that's important to you — then click the check mark or the "X" to tell us which questions you most want the Transition to answer.

My first question is a variation of the one Obama didn't answer from the Los Angeles Times: Is Obama aware of any communications in the last six weeks between Rod Blagojevich or anyone representing Rod Blagojevich and any of Obama's top aides?

ADDED: A Few Bugs In The System?

President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched "Open for Questions," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list.

It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama's supporters appear to be using -- and abusing -- a tool allowing them to "flag" questions as "inappropriate" to remove all questions mentioning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from the main pages of Obama's website.

To be fair, the question they were expecting was probably "When do I get my check?"