WASHINGTON – On a fundraising sweep, during a stop at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, Pres. Obama boarded the legendary Rosa Parks bus.

From remarks at one of the fundraisers, via CBS News:

“I actually had the chance to sit in Rosa Parks’ bus — I just sat there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history.” – Pres. Barack Obama

The first African American president sitting at the front of this bus.

There’s something haunting about it.

Taylor Marsh is the author of The Hillary Effect, which is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, where it was 1 of only 4 books in their NOOK Featured Authors Selection launch. Marsh is a veteran political analyst and commentator. She has written for The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, among others, and has been profiled in the Washington Post, The New Republic, and seen on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Arabic, as well as on radio across the dial and on satellite, including the BBC. Marsh lives in the Washington, D.C. area. This column is cross posted from her new media blog.