McCain and Obama Camps Coordinated Staff Rosters for Next Government

By GottaLaff

Steve Clemons has a scoop:

A senior Obama campaign official shared with The Washington Note and Huffington Post 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.

So, either they wanted the appearance of cooperation (or at least a leak indicating as much), or they were actually planning to reach out to the other side, per Clemons. Either way, that was some tightly held info.

I guess as of last summer, Gramm-pa forced himself to look "That One" in the eye at least once, and address him directly. Now that's cooperation.