Posted on 08/28/2008 11:57:11 AM PDT by Shermy
As if a Rocky Mountain coronation were not lofty enough, Barack Obama will aim for Mount Olympus when he accepts his party's nomination atop an enormous, Greek-columned stage - built by the same cheesy set team that put together Britney Spears' last tour.
... Some Republicans have dubbed it the "Barackopolis," while others suggested the delegates should wear togas to fit in among the same Doric columns the ancient Greeks believed would stroke the egos of Zeus and Athena.
"It's only appropriate that Barack Obama would descend down from the heavens and spend a little time with us mere mortals when accepting the Democratic nomination," said Republican National Committee spokesman Danny Diaz.
The McCain campaign quickly dispatched a memo calling the stage the "Temple of Obama."
"We would have expected to read something like this in The Onion. Fortunately for us, it's true. Unfortunately for Obama, it's true," a McCain adviser told The Post.
But the set is designed to evoke the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, not the Acropolis, said staging supervisor Bobby Allen, a Spears set vet.
"We've done Britney's sets and a whole bunch of rock shows, but this was far more elaborate and complicated and we had to do it in far less time," said Allen, of RDA Entertainment.
"The biggest challenge has been making sure we don't damage the playing field underneath."
Asked who is harder to satisfy - the Democrats or Britney - Allen replied: "I better not answer that."
The curved, columned backdrop does resemble the portico of the White House, and blue carpeting and podium surrounded by white stars is suggestive of the Oval Office, other crew members said.
Democrats quickly pointed out that George W. Bush accepted the Republican nomination before a similar, though less elaborate, stage in 2004.
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Be sure to buy the new DVD of Obama’s nomination: Audacity of the Will.
Note the similarities.
It’s an inverse of the Brandenburg Gate. The two side buildings are made larger. The columns of the center building are almost a facade, look at the supporting walls behind them. But the columns of the side buildings are free standing.
Looks like a Las Vegas Caesars Palace stage. Can you say ‘cheesy’?
“Such delusions of grandeur”
They can say “Greek Temple” all they want..that’s part of it. But it’s the Gate.
I wish I saved it, but after, or late in, his world tour Obama said something about that he wanted to create visuals to remind voters later of his presence at these foreign events.
And when he was rejected for Brandenburg, he chose a site, the Tower, that was close enough for the visual of the Gate, didn’t care it was a Nazi-associated site.
I think Obama planned to use visuals of INvesco and the Gate late in the election.
May they blow a fuse tonight!
Filmed by Michelle Riefenstahl ?..........
What’s the prespeech band lineup?
This woulda been a great stage for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, early Genesis or Yes or even Queen.
I know, I date myself.
Love it.
Note the many elements in Obama's Temple-Gate that are not present at the White House, but are present at Brandenburg.
So if the White House is not the essential model, what is?
Must be Brandenburg Gate.
Some reporter should ask Britney's people who suggested the elements of the design.
What to do? What to do? Watch Obama’s extravaganza or roll out Ernest P Worrell’s Ernest Goes To Africa?
If only they could get Britney Spears to perform some of her pelvic gyrating numbers, b/c that would enhance the “celebutante” grandiosity of this ridiculous set. But just having Obambi pretend to be some world historical figure descending fromm Mt. Olympus will be entertainment enough.....
It would’ve been even better for Spinal Tap. They got robbed on their stage construction of Stonehenge.
I have drank the kool-aid(yummy...cheery).
Sarcasm.
Definitely more reminscent of the Brandenberg Gate — it seems that Obambi was so enraptured by the reception he enjoyed among Euro-socialists that he had to try to re-create the mood for his 75,000 worshippers in Denver!!
This is going to be so much fun — how could he have made himself an easier target for mockery and ridicule?
We really didn't want to know about your love life...
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