At around 11 am EST this [Saturday] morning, PEOTUS Barack Hussein Obama and his 45th-birthday-celebrating wife Michelle (as well as daughters Sasha and Malia, but no puppy) boarded a Washington, DC-bound train* in Philadelphia, PA.
Following stops in Wilmington, DE – to pick up VPEOTUS Joe Biden and his wife Jill – and Baltimore, MD, the train arrived at its final destination (Washington's Union Station) approximately 7 hours later.
I have no idea what the Obamas and/or Bidens planned to do after that, but I do know what's on the schedule for tomorrow. Journey below the fold to find out for yourself.
*His magic carpet was presumably out of order.
The lineup:
Meet The Press: Incoming Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Roundtable with: Tom Brokaw (NBC News), David Brooks (The New York Times), Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Tavis Smiley (PBS), and Chuck Todd (NBC News).
Face The Nation: Incoming National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers; Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson; John Dickerson (Slate).
This Week: Incoming White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod; Roundtable with: George Will (ABC News), Donna Brazile (ABC News), Matthew Dowd (ABC News), Gwen Ifill (PBS), and E.J. Dionne (The Washington Post).
Fox News Sunday: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Incoming White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Roundtable with: Brit Hume (Fox News), Mara Liasson (NPR), Bill Kristol (The Weekly Standard), and Juan Williams (NPR).
State of the Union: David Axelrod; Outgoing White House Press Secretary Dana Perino; Bush White House Counselor Ed Gillespie.
Note: "State of the Union", hosted by John King, replaces "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer".
The Chris Matthews Show: Dan Rather (HD Net); Helene Cooper (The New York Times); Katty Kay (BBC); Mark Whitaker (NBC News).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Peggy Noonan (The Wall Street Journal); Pat Buchanan (MSNBC); John O'Sullivan (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty); Hendrik Hertzberg (The New Yorker).
The Washington Post provides a helpful calendar of inaugural events.
The event likely to garner the most coverage Sunday is the We Are One inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, featuring performances by:
Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, U2, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher Raymond IV, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, will.i.am, and Stevie Wonder.
Moving along...
Jon Stewart looks at Barack Obama's path to the Presidency:
The Daily Show
Monday: Al-Jazeera International Washington Bureau Chief Abderrahim Foukara.
Tuesday: Bishop of New Hampshire Rev. V. Gene Robinson. (Live)
Wednesday: New York Times Washington Correspondent David Sanger.
Thursday: Actor Liam Neeson.
Stephen Colbert examines Bush's relationship with the press:
The Colbert Report
Monday: New York Times Columnist Frank Rich.
Tuesday: Author Jabari Asim ("What Obama Means").
Wednesday: Poet Elizabeth Alexander.
Thursday: Author Jon Meacham ("American Lion").
And, finally, The New York Post's Page Six reports that:
Sen. John McCain might regret choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate, but an even worse decision will deprive his fellow Americans of what would have been the best season of "Dancing With the Stars" ever. Our impeccably placed source says, "Just before Thanksgiving, Cindy McCain started talks with producers to appear as a dancer on the show. She wanted to do it very badly." But this week, Sen. McCain "put the kibosh on it." Reps for the show and McCain didn't return calls.
Dancing With the Stars... Fuck no!
Miss Buffalo Chip... Hell yeah!
Get your change on!
- Trix