Posted on 12/15/2008 2:52:50 PM PST by mdittmar
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will travel by train from Philadelphia to Washington before his Jan. 20 inauguration, officials said Monday.
The Sat., Jan. 17, train trip along Northeast corridor commuter tracks will also allow for a Wilmington, Del., pick-up of Vice President-elect Joe Biden. The rail journey is designed to give Americans who can't attend the inauguration a chance to glimpse Obama along the route, The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) reported.
Emmett Beliveau, executive director of the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee, said the train's route is a recreation of the one taken by another Illinois senator, Abraham Lincoln, en route from Springfield, Ill., to his own presidential inauguration in 1861.
"These events will allow us to (let more people see Obama) while honoring the rich history and tradition of previous inaugural journeys," Beliveau told the newspaper.
The way this country is heading, Mr. Lincoln Obama may even have his own Civil War to contend with.
The new design of Diet Pepsi has a red, white and blue circle on it that is hauntingly similar to Obama’s symbol.
A pity it’s winter, this train deserves to be mooned.
I believe Kennedy’s family imitated FDR’s death train.
Does The Train of the President Elect have a logo?
At least your birthday is not on January 20 (like mine). It’s my birthday and I’ll cry if I want to...(sigh).
I heard this morning that Obama is having another news conference to announce some other cabinet post today and another one tomorrow. This is getting ridiculous. He must love standing behind that stupid ‘President elect’ podium and the sound of his own voice....lol
I apologize for being so thick...I appreciate your sarcasm...
What unfortunate events were those?
Oh, I just read the explanation that you gave in an earlier post. Very sad.
Obama is no Abraham Lincoln.
THey also imitated Lincolns.
Why can’t anybody be creative on his own,,why copy everyone else’s death and inaugural.
Altho I thought the bus Clinton took into DC for his inauguration was a metaphor for him. Plus Michael Jackson performing,,it made me nauseous.
they’ll be throwing free cheese from Obummer’s train
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