Barack Obama Rides Old Unreliable Train Somewhere
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
After posting the customary president-elect YouTube video to the internets, this morning Barack Obama and his family boarded a rickety old train for a daylong journey from Philadelphia to Washington, which takes about two hours on a normal Saturday, in a car. This dramatic gesture is meant to illustrate our nation’s tragic fall from a gleaming superpower to a worn-out rust bucket inching through an industrial wasteland. MORE »










