What took so long? White House website now an official advertising arm of the Obama campaign

Doug Ross
DirectorBlue
6/5/2011

For a president whose administration has already been held in contempt of court by a federal judge and whose 2008 campaign openly accepted illegal foreign contributions, transforming the White House website into a voter outreach platform shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.

Visitors to WhiteHouse.gov are now confronted with an email collection script.

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It is entirely possible, and perhaps extremely likely, that collection of these emails crosses the line into an illegal use of government property for partisan purposes. The Clinton administration’s Justice Department issued a 1999 memo that outlined prohibited behavior

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H/T Protein Wisdom where Jeff G. writes, “Hatch Act? Pshaw. Don’t you know who I am? Rules are for subjects. Not for rulers. Recognize, bitches.”

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