Obama's stage is going to look like a Greek temple:
When Sen. Barack Obama moves the Democratic National Convention from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field on Thursday, the freshman senator is planning to speak from a columned stage resembling an ancient Greek temple.I saw another report that it's suppose to resemble the White House. It will be interesting to see what they come up with."Is this from the Onion?" quipped a McCain adviser.
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It is quite possible that to your average Joe, Greek columns are more likely to evoke government buildings, which are typically done in the Classical style, than pagan temples.
I mean, which do you see more often? Greek temples or your local court house, or photos of the nation's capital, which is FULL of such columns.
My mother's extended family was German, and Jewish. One of the old family stories was about Cousin Joachim, a very modern-minded Jew, who was quite taken with Hitler's speaking style. And he thought all the columns really spoke to the recovery of the Fatherland from the errors leading to and through World War I and the Weimar Republic.
Jewish cousin Joachim voted National Socialist, during the last election anyone got to vote for a while. Then we don't know what happened to him, but nobody heard from him after 1934.
Stadiums, columns, crowds, they can be exciting. But I prefer my candidate be boring, and competent. And not executing me is also highly desirable. I'm really big on not being executed. This is really quite high on my list.
It looks like Obama's set actually looks a lot like Bush's from 2004. It had columns and everything.
Are you really that dense? The stage is going to look like the Lincoln Memorial. The very same Lincoln Memorial where MLK gave his "I Have a Dream" speech 45 years ago tomorrow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial
Republicans really must be desperate for anything to nail Obama on if they're stupid enough to miss the obvious symbolism of that stage in favor of some sort of Greek temple analogy.
excellent! oh, and on the 45th anniversary of king's "i have a dream" speech, even! what a strong and very iconic visual for history being made again tonight!
i wonder how stupid republicans will be feeling once they make that connection? OUCH. well, i wouldn't expect mccain to ever get it - you know, voting against the mlk jr holiday and all that. i do hope that obama actually makes note of that in his speech tonight just to help out those who don't pay attention to that sort of american history. the obama camp is having a great big chuckle at the mccain group right about now.
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