Crunchy Con

It's all Greek to Barack Obama

Wednesday August 27, 2008

Categories: Democrats

Is Team Obama crazy? Or do they have a Republican mole on the senior staff? I ask because they're going to have the Lightworker giving his acceptance speech in a football stadium, surrounded by Greek temple columns. Shazam! Straight from Olympus to bring word from on high to us mere mortals! Man, if I were making McCain's commercials, I would thank Zeus for this gift.

See, Obama supporters, this is why Republicans have so much to work with, making fun of his messianic image. The meme doesn't come from nowhere. Karl Rove isn't making these decisions, you know.

UPDATE: What Ramesh said.

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John E. - Agn Stoic
August 28, 2008 1:51 PM

Meanwhile...

DAYTON — Tickets are still available for Sen. John McCain's Friday, Aug. 29, rally at Wright State University's Nutter Center in Fairborn.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/08/28/ddn082808tickets.html


Nutter Center

This stuff just writes itself...

James
August 28, 2008 4:39 PM

This is pure non-sense. As more already mentioned, nearly every building in D.C. has similar columns. As does nearly every courthouse, captial building and post offices across America. Besides, the Republicans used Greek columns in their 2004 convention. Here's a link to the picture:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YdAacBURVXE/SLWwqEkajbI/AAAAAAAAC7Q/0cMqon8p5H0/s1600-h/gwb-2004convention.jpeg

And as for this celebrity stuff, wasn't Ronald Reagan a celebrity? He sure was so stop with the smoke screen Republicans and talk issues. Americans need help not silly stuff like this.

Kirk
August 28, 2008 10:08 PM

Actually, I think the columns invoke Soldier Field in Obama's home town of Chicago. Seems appropriate to me...

DavidTC
August 28, 2008 10:24 PM

Nutter Center

This stuff just writes itself...

You know, I wouldn't make fun of this, except it's apparently become fashionable to make fun of really stupid things because of 'how it could be perceived by people looking to make fun of it', apparently.

So, yeah, ha ha ha ha. Nutter Center. While Obama apparently thinks he's, um, Greek (Has anyone checked that he actually isn't Greek?), McCain appears to think that people voting for him are Nutters. Or perhaps he's a Nutter.

Of course, this is all damn stupid, but we didn't start it. Rest assured that we'll have lots of fun at the Republican Convention. (Which is likely to descend into total anarchy without people making nonsense up.)

Until them, in really stupid things to talk about:

Does appearing, the other day, via satellite link mean that he believes he can be president with a several second lag? If we call him at 3 in the morning and it doesn't even ring until 3:00:02, is he really fit to be president?

Alternately, does Obama believe he can communicate faster than light? Maybe he's not just the Lightbearer, maybe he's the FasterThanLightbearer! What other laws of physics does he believe do not apply to him?

BamBamma
August 29, 2008 12:48 AM

So there we were sitting in our living room dressed in togas just trying to get in the mood for his blessed appearance. And he didn't cooperate! A suit? We were so hoping for a toga wearing wreathed Obama.

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