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Greek Tragedy? [Good News Alert]
ABC News ^
| August 28, 2008
| Rick Klein
Posted on 08/28/2008 1:11:27 AM PDT by Zakeet
So all the buzz today was supposed to be about two big Wednesday speeches -- Bill Clintons and Joe Biden.
Why, then, is everyone in Denver talking about stagecraft?
Its 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.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; 2008election; biden; bo; convention; democrat; democrats; idiotalert; invescofield; littlejoe; obama; stuckonstupid
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Barry is becoming a bit much, even for the Leftist Media
Note: The readers' comments at the end of the article are a MUST READ!
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posted on
08/28/2008 1:11:27 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
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?" Obama 4:12 - And He was well known for striking down His enemies with His signature weapon; a speeding Greyhound bus, under who's justice-hungry wheels many a former friend and ally were thrown as divine punishment.
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posted on
08/28/2008 1:27:20 AM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
("There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate" Ibn Warraq)
To: Steel Wolf
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posted on
08/28/2008 1:27:59 AM PDT
by
Pinkbell
(”This guy is a jerk, an arrogant jerk. A Jerk Messiah.” - Rush talking about Obama)
To: Zakeet
Thunderbolts zapping thought crime!
Thunderbolts silencing the internet with fairness doctrine.
Thunderbolts destroying all class status. (except the limos of his friends)
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posted on
08/28/2008 1:39:14 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Zakeet
LOL!! Your right, those comments were hysterical!!
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posted on
08/28/2008 1:44:57 AM PDT
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
To: Steel Wolf
Ah but the democrats (and media) are supposedly united.
Obama just sets himself up for this stuff. Yike.
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posted on
08/28/2008 1:59:29 AM PDT
by
goodolemr
To: Zakeet

Obama is going to try to milk the Martin Luther King speech at the Lincoln Memorial for all its worth.
Obama aint no Martin Luther King.
I hope McCain has an Wright/Black Liberation Theology ad ready. Obama either lacks judgement for staying in a radical Black Liberation Theology "church" for 20 years or he actually believes that nonsense.
To: Steel Wolf; shibumi
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
(Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius).
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:03:13 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Music is your only friend.....until The End....)
To: igoramus08
I’ll say he’s not! He’s more along the lines of “I may not, uh, get there with ya’! Um, inhalator. Hold on, I can’t hear m’self. I’m glad yer excited though.” LOL!
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:13:14 AM PDT
by
TeddyCon
To: All
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:26:58 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Zakeet
The comments WERE a riot! One desperate Dim even had to bring up Larry Craig and link him to the “Greek” thing. To bad Mr. Sinclair can't be there. Gay folks always love that “over the top” stuff—fake Presidential Seals, gaudy jewelry, and such.
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:30:27 AM PDT
by
singfreedom
(Obama's solution to the energy crisis: check the air in your tires! Why didn't we think of that?)
To: Steel Wolf
Good one! ROTF!
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:31:30 AM PDT
by
singfreedom
(Obama's solution to the energy crisis: check the air in your tires! Why didn't we think of that?)
To: Steel Wolf
Obama 4:13 Yea, verily, even the One’s own typical pale mother of his mother, although fourscore and three, was spared the treadmarks he deemed so necessary for his ascension to the Office of the Oval in the palest of pale houses.
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:32:32 AM PDT
by
skr
(I serve a risen Savior!)
To: skr
Where is Obama’s Mother? Is she dead from all the close exposure to third worlders, or is she an embarassment to “the One”? What up with her missing-ness?
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:36:46 AM PDT
by
singfreedom
(Obama's solution to the energy crisis: check the air in your tires! Why didn't we think of that?)
To: Zakeet
Hmmmmmm - Greek?
Will Larry Sinclair be on stage too?
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:53:49 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Huma for co-president! (it ain't over 'til it's over))
To: igoramus08
I thought his running mate was the plagiarist.
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:54:22 AM PDT
by
Roy Tucker
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."--Ayn Rand)
To: singfreedom
Where is Obamas Mother? She daid.
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posted on
08/28/2008 2:57:23 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Zakeet
Hmm, a Greek Tragedy? I guess it is if you are already totally invested in success, to the point you cannot even dare to consider the least failure.
To me, this is looking like an exchange from ‘I, Claudius’:
TIBERIUS (turning from offering a libation to Zeus): You know, your family is beginning to resemble a Greek Tragedy.
AGRIPPINA (his niece all of whose brothers Tiberius has either had executed or exiled): And you resemble a Roman farce.
That’s what I see coming: a Roman farce. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
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posted on
08/28/2008 3:10:49 AM PDT
by
BelegStrongbow
(what part of 'mias gunaikos andra' do Episcopalians not understand?)
To: Salamander
Proverbs 16:18
18) Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
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posted on
08/28/2008 3:17:28 AM PDT
by
tbpiper
(Obama/Biden: Instead of Ebony and Ivory, we have Arrogance and Insolence.)
To: Zakeet
The columns: For Barack, it's called "StageCraft". For Republicans, it would be called "
phallic symbols" by the same MediaCrafters.
The leftwing media doesn't dare! make mention of anything "sexual" because it might set off the Hillary voters, again.
I wonder if the fact that Barack has TWO Phallic Symbols in his temple has "meaning". ;>
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posted on
08/28/2008 3:24:59 AM PDT
by
Alia
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