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.
I'm betting because His Hubris wants to be seen onboard the sleek electric Acela 
and not onboard a standard Amtrak passenger train pulled by a smelly old diesel P42 Genesis locomotive...
Of course the electric is limited to routes with available catenary, like the Northeast Corridor.
Very creepy man. I sure hope America wakes up in the next 4 years.
Not that I would expect the main-stream media to actually report facts, but Lincoln never was a senator. He was beaten by Douglas for that office.
OBAMA, you are no Abe Lincoln!!!!
I cannot believe the hubris of this guy and the insanity of his loony supporters.
He has yet to do ANYTHING in public life, ever, yet we are supposed to embrace him as among the handful of our greatest Presidents..... before he even takes the oath of office.
This is nuts.
Please forgive me for being so picky but I think Washington's first inaugural was in New York.
Yes, can't expect Mediascum OR the "executive director" of Obambi's "Presidential Inauguration Committee" actually to know anything about history or Abraham Lincoln, can we? Lincoln never served in the US Senate -- the famous 1858 "Lincoln-Douglas Debates" preceded the electoral victory of Douglas, not Lincoln!!
Yup, neither Washington, D.C. nor the railroad had yet been invented. Get it? Just as Roosevelt was neither President nor appeared on television after Black Friday in 1929.
I WISH!! A train ride lke that I will support
That is correct. Lincoln was elected as a one term Representative and a member of the Whig Party.
He ran in 1858 against Steven Douglas as the Republican candidate and lost.
During the 1960 Presidential election he ran against Senator Steven Douglas (Democrat) as a Republican and won. Lincoln was a private citizen when elected.
The South also ran a candidate who split the democrat vote and allowed Lincoln the victory.
what?
“My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of the Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.”
And this Obamination that was elected presupposes he's Lincoln's equal?????
Sorry. Lincoln ran for the Senate from Illinois in 1858 as a Republican against Steven Douglas a democrat.
Lincoln lost! He was NEVER a Senator.
That’s more better now.
If this were a Republican, Algore would say this is an unnecessary contribution to Global Warming.
Will he be throwing out water bottles to all the fainting masses along the way?
Is Obama’s train going to be like Don Cornelius’ “SOUL TRAIN” of the Duke’s “A Train”?
Foe sco’e and seven years ago our faders brought fo’d on dis continent some new nashun, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated t’de proposishun dat all dudes are created equal.
Now we is engaged in some great civil war, testin’ wheda’ dat nashun, o’ any nashun, so’s conceived and so’s dedicated, kin long endure. We is met on some great battle-field uh dat war.
Ah be baaad... We gots mosey on down to dedicate some po’shun uh dat field, as some final restin’ place fo’ dose who here gave deir lives dat dat nashun might live.
It be altogeda’ fittin’ and propuh’ dat we should do dis. But, in some larga’ sense, we kin not dedicate—we kin not consecrate—we kin not hallow—dis ground. De brave men, livin’ and wasted, who struggled here, gots consecrated it, far above our poo’ powa’ to add o’ detract.
Man! De wo’ld gots’ta little note, no’ long rememba’ whut we say here, but it kin neva’ fo’get whut dey dun did here. It be fo’ us de livin’, rader, t’be dedicated here t’de unfinished wo’k which dey who fought here gots dus far so’s nobly advanced.
It be rada’ fo’ us t’be here dedicated t’de great tax’ remainin’ befo’e us—dat fum dese hono’ed wasted we snatch increased devoshun t’dat cause fo’ which dey gave da damn last full measho’ man uh devoshun—dat we here highly resolve dat dese wasted shall not gots got wasted in vain—dat dis nashun, unda’ God, shall gots some new bird uh freedom—and dat guv’ment uh de sucka’s, by de sucka’s, fo’ de sucka’s, shall not puh’ish fum de eard.
(The Gettysburg Address translated to Jive by http://http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/ . And before anyone accuses me or that site of being un-PC, they also translate to Redneck.)
To #42: What do Abe Lincoln and Obama have in common?
Just the letters A, B and O in their names.
Other than that, we are in trouble!!
Thanks for posting that. I had never read it before.
Very eloquent. And since history has recorded the end of that journey, very heart rending. It almost makes you wonder if he knew what his end would be.
From what I have read, Lincoln was a very humble man, even with his determination. Barry needs to think twice about his comparisons. His arrogance may well be his undoing.
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