Actually, the whole thing was rather unpleasant.
"Whistlestop trip to inauguration revives a tradition
It is President-elect Barack Obama's latest nod to history and his political hero Abraham Lincoln: His inaugural committee announced yesterday that he will arrive by train in the nation's capital for his historic inauguration.
The trip on Jan. 17, three days before his swearing-in, is designed to highlight the inaugural theme of "Renewing America's Promise" by reviving a tradition of presidential whistlestop tours and by stopping in cities crucial to the American story, starting in Philadelphia, where independence was declared in 1776, and Baltimore, where the national anthem was written.
And if "terrorists" attack the tracks?
Besides the evocation of history, the journey will allow many more Americans to see Obama, either along the tracks or during public events in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Wilmington, Del., where Vice President-elect Joe Biden will get on board.
So MORE PEOPLE will be able to take a SHOT at him, huh?
"As part of the most open and accessible inauguration in history, we hope to include as many Americans as possible who wish to participate, but can't be in Washington," Emmett S. Beliveau, the inaugural committee's executive director, said in a statement.
"These events will allow us to do that while honoring the rich history and tradition of previous inaugural journeys." Obama, who is patterning his Cabinet choices in part after President Lincoln's team of rivals, is taking another page out of the Lincoln playbook.
Lincoln took a train all the way from the state capital of Springfield, Ill., where Obama announced his presidential bid in February 2007, to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration in 1861.
You know how that all ended, right, guy?
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