et tu Hillary?
friends, pumas, crazymen lend me your ears, I come to bury Obama, not to praise him.
Posted on 08/27/2008 5:31:21 PM PDT by maccaca
1:50 pm MT: From ABC News' Rick Klein, author of The Note: So all the buzz today was supposed to be about two big Wednesday speeches -- Bill Clinton’s and Joe Biden.
Why, then, is everyone in Denver talking about stagecraft?
It’s simple: Reporters got their first glimpse of the stage where Barack Obama will deliver his speech tomorrow night at Invesco Field. Reuters described the set as similar to a "Greek temple."
Thus a legend -- not the good kind -- was born.
Said one Democrat: "This is a disaster of mythical proportions." Said another: "It's not enough that he wants to be president -- he wants to be Zeus." Said the first: "Will he send down thunderbolts from the mountain?"
Those are the Democrats -- though assuredly not Obama partisans. Cue the Republicans: The RNC blasted around an e-mail referring to the "Temple of Obama."
"Tomorrow you're going to see Obama come down from Olympus to be among us mere mortals," Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, told reporters in Denver.
Senior Obama advisers dismiss the comparisons. There will be columns, they say, but it won’t look like a Greek temple -- or even the White House portico.
"It looks like any state capitol," one adviser tells ABC News. "It's a bunch of columns."
For the candidate who brought you his very own faux-presidential seal, this is not a good perception. Obama aides insist that the set is staying, and that it won't look as bad as it sounds right now; the real backdrop, they say, will be his supporters.
It raises anew the larger issue: After Berlin, and the "Celebrity" ads, does Obama want to accept the nomination in front of a screaming crowd of 75,000 people?
Obama folks, who see the evening as an organizing tool, say yes. There’s a real enthusiasm gap here that the Obama folks want to exploit
But I wonder: If this was being put together post-"Celebrity" -- had it not been in the works for months -- would the campaign have had such a problem with accepting the nomination inside the Pepsi Center -- just like people normally do?
A good line is a good line, even from a Democrat.
Did they have some sort of scribes back then filling the role of what we call a telepromter today?
If the scribe doesn’t flip his papyrus quicke enough we may have another bunch of uh’s, ah’, and more uhh’s.
Will his chariot have spinners?
All this symbolism and feelgoodism is making me sick. The Obamaites will follow their man in whatever direction he goes, and one day they’ll wake up and wonder where freedom went.
That is a great point...is he really pompous enough to include “I am the dream” in his speech? What will Hakeem Olajuwon have to say about that?
The comment you cited is remarkably historically literate, coming from a modern-day 'Rat.
The gift that keeps on giving...
Pride cometh before the fall.
SAJ, everyone......IF you find out the site, and IF you post....be nice. They’re on the same page as we are...making SURE O’Hussein doesn’t get in.
Just a gentle nag from me to thee. :)
et tu Hillary?
friends, pumas, crazymen lend me your ears, I come to bury Obama, not to praise him.
If Obama really wants to knock um dead. He’ll start off with blackening the stadium lights, then up on the stadium big screen, starts a picture and video montage of him from a child to adult with the musical piece, Carmina Burana from the composer Orff, quietly growing louder and louder. Then right at the dramatic ending, pyrotechnic lightening starts flashing around the temple stage, and big explosion of smoke, and Obama appears out of it.
Please don’t not insult the Lanteans..
Just a question of what language the commandment is written in. Since his supporters made a point of pointing out what his name means in Hebrew, maybe that's it?
should use david copperfield to make the temple disappear and obama appear
“Then right at the dramatic ending, pyrotechnic lightening starts flashing around the temple stage, and big explosion of smoke, and Obama appears out of it.”
I think he should descend to the stage from clouds of CO2. Lightening flashes, fireworks going off. The full tilt boogie.
If Christianity made one greatest innovation in ordinary ethics, it was that it figured out that pride is a vice, and humility a virtue.
Obama hasn't figured that out. He never will.
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