After “Mission Accomplished,” we had hoped that presidential publicity stunts aboard large vehicles would be retired. Apparently, that was wishful thinking. USA Today reports that Barack Obama plans to kick off his inauguration with a train ride from Philadelphia—stopping in Wilmington to pick up Joe Biden—to Baltimore, and then to Washington, D.C. The paper fails to point this out—though Team Obama certainly had this in mind—that Abraham Lincoln famously toured the country by train on the way to his inauguration.
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