[Steel Wolf]

In a further sign of confusion within the Obama ranks about the presentation of his big night, it emerged that he will deliver his speech from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple, a setting that could easily lead to charges of an over-inflated ego.

Did I miss something? Since when did building a dime-store Olympus to house your messiah complex become a bad thing?

As an unrelated question, if, during his coronation, Obama walked out to the paper-mache altar, dagger in hand, and asked for volunteers for human sacrifice, in order to defeat Bush/McCain, clease the soul of the earth, and roll back climate change, how many do you think he'd get? (ballpark guess, to a + or - 50 margin of error)

[WayneS]

From a crowd of 100,000, he’d get about 230 volunteers, 190 of them women.

[Huck]

Even if he only got half of 1% to go along with it...that’s still 375 people, give or take.