Change.gov's "Open for Questions" feature has already attracted over 8,000 submissions. The site is designed to let users choose on which questions are put before the great and powerful President-elect much like Digg allows users to vote on which stories make the site's front page.
As Mashable's Mark Hopkins and Politico's Ben Smith point out, the result is similar to Digg: left-leaning users are voting for questions with pointed criticisms of the current President. (One question urges the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration; another calls for the military to stop hiring "mercenary" contractors.) Questions about Obama's relationship with Gov. Blagojevich are buried deep.
That's not a bad thing: the past 220 years should have taught us that anytime there is some sort of election, Americans will organize in an attempt to win.
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