The big media story today is President Elect Barack Obama via train ride to Washington D. C. It’s causing yet more uses of the world “Lincolnesque.”

Here’s the AP’s raw footage:

The view from an excited You Tuber’s yard:

Before Obama left, he delivered what CBS calls “Obama’s Philadelphia Address” in Philadelphia:

Obama is getting an electric response from crowds. And he kept spreading his message, as the train stopped at cities. Here he is from Baltimore:

During the election campaign, Bayou Seco wrote and sang this song about the train-campaigning Obama and the train that would “take him to the White House next year…”

JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.

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