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.
Really? Does it give me the chance to throw my shoe at him as well?
Beautiful.
Well, it give His Usurpness the opportunity to show that he makes the trains run on time. Also, a mere glimpse of him is enough to heal the sick, and pay the mortgages of the poor. It's a healing tour.
Somebody please find me a barf bag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How many years will we have to listen this kind of S**t???
Good God, what an Ego!!!!
Does this guy do *anything* that doesn’t just reek with narcissism?
Mister Machiavelli... please pick up the white courtesy phone...
No...he would be saying “fo’ sco’”.......
Yuk. It's already happening.
any chance for a derailment?
Mega barf!!!
And as to the electoral college vote today:
BOO!!!
Actually, good ol' Honest Abe never made it to Baltimore. His security people got word of a plot to harm him in Baltimore. So Honest Abe donned a disguise and switched trains in Harrisburg, and rode unmolested to Washington.
Things were not so nice for his family though whom he allowed to continue on for an unpleasant ride through Baltimore. What a swell guy that Honest Abe was.
ML/NJ
Really? Does it give me the chance to throw my shoe at him as well?
Beautiful.
Well, it give His Usurpness the opportunity to show that he makes the trains run on time. Also, a mere glimpse of him is enough to heal the sick, and pay the mortgages of the poor. It's a healing tour.
How precious.
Just like Harry Pooman.
Nice of the Sock Puppet to compare himself with Lincoln. His little comfortable train trip doesn’t bother me, but that ridiculous comparison does.
Just as well that he take a slow train, since he’s not getting into Blair House early. nlnn
Damn how many posts and not one Don Cornelius reset...
It’s OK really, Obama has no soul.
Somebody else will have to write his Gettysburg address.
I wonder how much traffic disruption this little stunt will cause?
Then, call for volunteers? I never really thought of us as "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law", but I suppose if you're gwine ta do the whole Lincoln thing, that's a logical progression.
It is! It is disgustingly, sickening to see all the hyperbole surrounding this @$$....and even more so, that half the country is swept up by it all too.
Sad sad sad....
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