Obama takes another page from Lincoln - he'll take train to DC inauguration:

"Obama began his historic presidential run in the Great Emancipator's hometown of Springfield, Ill., in February 2007. In February 1861, Lincoln rode a train from Philadelphia to his inauguration in Washington, stopping to make quick speeches along the way."

...except Lincoln wasn't pretending to be somebody else. He was himself. A depressed, ugly man with no formal schooling, who had no pretensions to greatness.