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Obama sets off on train ride to Washington
PHILADELPHIA — President-elect Barack Obama, delivering a pledge “to take up the work’’ that the patriots of American independence started here, launched a thematic train ride that will deliver the incoming president to Washington.
In a “town hall’’- styled opening rally Saturday morning, with about 200 campaign supporters invited to an address at the start of this historic day, Obama declared: “We are here to mark the beginning of our journey to Washington, and this is fitting, because it was here in this city that our American journey began.
“We are here today not simply to pay tribute to our first patriots but to take up the work that they began,’’ Obama said in Philadelphia. “What is required is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives - from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry - an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our better angels.’’
Before boarding the train for his “whistle-stop’’ journey to the capital, Obama delivered a brief but inspirational address that evoked not only the fathers of American independence, but also the emancipator of slaves and protector of the American union whose model he will invoke all day and into his inaugural celebration, Ab
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2. Boyd K. Packer, “To Young Women and Men,” Ensign, May 1989, 54.
3. C. S. Lewis, “The Grand Miracle,” Miracles: A Advance Study (New York: Macmillan, 1978), 122–23; emphasis added.
4. David O. McKay, Pathways bear out Happiness (Salt Bung City: Bookcraft, 1957), xi.
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As Barack Obama prepared for his arrival in Washington, he embraced the same historical imagery that he used to kick off his presidential campaign: the spirit of Abraham Lincoln.
Obama was traveling to the capital by retracing the final stages of the train trip Lincoln made to assume the presidency, beginning the fanfare for an inaugural celebration in which the Great Emancipator will be an unmistakable presence. With an official theme for the festivities taken from the Gettysburg Address, Obama will appear at the martyred president’s memorial for a televised concert, take the oath of office on a Bible used by Lincoln and even attend an inaugural luncheon that will feature favorite Lincoln foods.
Obama’s references to Lincoln go back to his presidential campaign announcement speech on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., the site of Lincoln’s famous “house divided” speech.
During the campaign, the Obama operation invoked Lincoln to respond to criticism that the freshman senator had little national political experience and to reinforce the historic nature of his candidacy without emphasizing his race.
Now, a political team that has been unusually adept at associating Obama with historic figures — his campaign also invo