The construction of this "temple" has turned Obama into a laughing stock.
Obama is setting himself up as if he were Zeus.
There was a similar ‘over the top’ moment in the French Revolution. A meglomaniac leader had himself portrayed as a god atop an artificial mountain. I’ve yet to find it in google. But that was the moment that the other revulutionaries decided that he had to go.
I took this from another poster in another forum “least favorite person in history”:
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=44393
Maximillian Robespierre, maybe the most influential figure in the French Revolution. As the leading spokesman for the Jacobins, he was instrumental in creating the new constitution. He at first supported a constitutional monarchy by when the king, pretty much in house arrest, attempted to slip across the border to Austria, Robespeirre decided he needed to be executed. Later he supported the guillotining of those loyalists who were perceived as threats to the new republic.
All not to bad at that point [not according to Arthur — good grief], but it seems at some point Robespeirre began losing touch with reality, attempting to introduce a new religion in France, The Cult Of The Supreme Being, in whcih he actually appeared dressed in some toga-type outfit standing on top of a manmade mountain in the streets of Paris. He began his final descent after ordering wholesale slaughter of ‘enemies of the state’ that led to the Reign of Terror’. Any body you owed money to, or had a grudge against, or looked at you wrong, you reported them as a loyalist and it was off with their head. Fittingly, as even many of Robespierre’s fellow Jacobins began to get nervous about their own heads, they accused him of his own brand of tyranny and it was off with his head.