Obama, Biden and families arrive in Washington's Union Station

[Omaha Steve]

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/01/obama_biden_and_families_arriv.html

By
Lynn Sweet
on January 17, 2009 6:53 PM

By Abdon M. Pallasch
Chicago Sun-Times Political Reporter

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. defied the cold Saturday to stand in their backyards or at train stations to wave at President-elect Barack Obama as he took an old-fashioned, Abraham Lincoln-style train ride to Tuesday's inauguration.

"As I prepare to leave for Washington on a trip that you made possible, I know that I will not be traveling alone. I'll be taking you with me," Obama told 40,000 cheering fans in downtown Baltimore in 20-degree weather.

"Folks, this is more than an ordinary train ride -- this is a new beginning," Vice President-elect Joe Biden told 8,000 fans in Wilmington, Del., at the train stop where he boards the Amtrak for work every day.

Biden even confessed that some days when he is running late he calls ahead and the conductor pretends that there is "some mechanical difficulty that would last a minute or two" until Biden gets there.

At both stops, people clapped their gloved hands and cheered with steaming breath as Obama ad Biden promised to listen to their concerns and bring change to Washington, D.C.

"To the conductors who make our trains run and to the workers who lay down the rails; to the parents who worry about how they're going to pay the bills next month on the commute to work, and to the children who hear the whistle of the train and dream of a better life --that's who we're fighting for. That's who needs change," Obama said in Wilmington.

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[firedupdem]

1. It was a magnificent day! It truly was! I cannot wait for the rest of

the weekend and of course Tuesday!!