"And I’m sure he’s been fitted for his stove-pipe hat........"
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.
More than Clinton getting a hair cut.
What do Obama and Abe have in common?
Nothing.....yet
I guess all the chariots must have been rented out.
Maybe he asked Bill Richardson for his BEARD!!
Ain’t that the truth. If Zero’s **** was as big as his ego Michelle wouldn’t always have that lemon-sucking expression on her face.
"And I’m sure he’s been fitted for his stove-pipe hat........"
Don’t forget Kerry’s ride into Boston Harbor!!! egads....if a Republican did ANY of this CRAPOLA, they would be LAUGHED AT for ALL TIME!!!
Too bad it’s winter time.
In the summer, we could probably recruit thousands to line the route wearing Blago masks.
If I were a kid, I would put pennies on the tracks and later sell them for $2 each.
Crushing old car windshields, burying the diamond size pieces and then selling the treasure maps to the dumb kids in the neighborhood used to keep me in candy. Other than that... big woop. ;>)
Just like Clinton’s trip from Monticello in 92
I wasn’t aware you had to go through Philadelphia to get to DC from Chicago! Please tell me this isn’t going to be on tax subsidized Amtrak.....! Duplicate Lincoln’s journey? Gee whiz - this guy’s arrogance knows no bounds!
Obummer’s traveling circus
I think we all know the answer to that question...
50-some posts and no one has posted that Lincoln was never a Senator? Journalism these days.
0bama intends to make a joke out of every historical event in American history doesn’t he? Will there be an Official Seal of the Train of the President-Pre-Inaugural too?
They are SO alike! Was Lincoln born in Kenya too?
This doesnt square with other articles telling us that Hussein and family are moving to the Capitol by the fifth to make sure the kids are settled in school.
What a jerk. Symbolism!
He is actually recreating Kennedy’s death train,,
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