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With a train ride reminiscent of Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 rail trip to Washington DC for his inauguration, President-elect Barak Obama and vice-president elect Joe Biden traveled to Washington with their families aboard an Amtrak train. Obama’s inauguration will launch a presidency his transition staff is calling “A New Birth of Freedom,” a symbolic allusion to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, and his Emancipation Proclamation that freed American slaves.
Obama’s historic pilgrimage is generating images and metaphors that evoke powerful longings in the American public–for a country and government that will support fully their needs for peace, tranquility, economic stability, and the resolution of conflicts, domestically and abroad.
