Posted on 08/26/2008 7:11:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DENVER (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.
The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays.
Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington's Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party's nomination for president.
He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.
The show should provide a striking image for the millions of Americans watching on television as Obama delivers a speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
Politicians in past elections have typically spoken from the convention site itself, but the Obama campaign liked the idea of having their man speak to a larger, stadium-sized crowd not far from where the Democratic National Convention is being held, at the Denver pro basketball arena.
Obama was taking a page from the campaign book of John Kennedy in 1960 when the future president delivered his acceptance speech to 80,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Once Obama speaks, confetti will rain down on him and fireworks will be fired off from locations around the stadium wall.
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Another John McCain “The One” commercial coming up.
More Hollywood theater from the DemocRATS. Just the “change” America needs.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The more “staging” they apply to this extreme lightweight, the more evident to more Americans just how empty this suit is...
Let's hope they have a real Greek Tragedy.
Greek temple? Must be the idea of all the overt gays in the Democratic party.
Should have been a Roman temple. The convention is more like a scene from “Caligula.”
Must be a misprint. It should be “Geek Temple”.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yup! If he comes out wearing a white robe and sandals to receive his “laurel and hardy handshake” from Howie Dean, I think I’ll puke. DemocRATS really need to try to cutback on the phony Hollywood stuff.
More “show” to replace the (lack of) substance.
Sure they did. Adolf liked majestic settings with lots of columns too.
Think: 'Triumph of the Will' for a study of how to make a scumbag seem like a saviour.
I guess they couldn’t get the Chinese director who did the opening and closing ceremonies at the Olympics.
Sheesh...this sounds really cheesy. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him rise into some fake clouds at the end of his speech.
Do you remember the Republican convention, when a whole bunch of secular progressives got upset because they said it “looked like a church”?
I guess the pagan theme is just right for the dems.
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