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stephanie
12-15-2008, 06:09 PM
oooooooooooooo...:rolleyes:

Published: Dec. 15, 2008 at 5:22 PMOrder reprints | Feedback

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- 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.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/15/Obama_to_take_inaugural_train_journey/UPI-16681229379752/

Kathianne
12-15-2008, 06:11 PM
So is he Lincolnesque enough? Oh he really should rethink that, Lincoln was dead on the train.

I thought Bush was the Truman wannabe? LOL! Obama channeling Bush?

5stringJeff
12-15-2008, 06:23 PM
If Obama governs as Lincoln governed, we're in a lot of trouble.

Abbey Marie
12-15-2008, 06:26 PM
The Obama formula:

Form
Substance

Kathianne
12-15-2008, 06:33 PM
If Obama governs as Lincoln governed, we're in a lot of trouble.

I think the outcome was right, but the means were wrong. You have a valid point, easy enough. Ends do not justify the means.