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JammieWearingFool: McCain Aide Mocks Obama: 'Is This From the Onion?'
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed: Obama Speech Preview: Focus On Middle Class
Think Progress: 2008 Virginia Republican Convention Featured Stage With Greek Columns
RedState: Conservative News and Community: We seem to be having a Star Trek TOS meme going with Obama, here.
McCain Aide Mocks Obama: 'Is This From the Onion?'
JammieWearingFool —
... 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. Hello ball : When Sen. Barack Obama moves the Democratic National Convention from the Pepsi ...
Matt Lewis: Messianic Complex?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... "Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple. ... 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. As ABC News notes, "The celebrity-like trappings of Obama's Thursday's speech may have given the Republicans new ammo."
Obama Speech Preview: Focus On Middle Class
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... the Democratic nomination for president.
"The single most important thing I have to make clear is the choice we have in November between the same failed policy of the last eight years for the middle class and the new agenda to boost income for Americans and help families who are struggling," he said in a brief interview with The Wall Street Journal Tuesday. "I will make that contrast very clearly."
Meanwhile, John McCain staffers are already mocking the stage on which Obama will appear. Reuters reports that it will look like "a miniature ...
2008 Virginia Republican Convention Featured Stage With Greek Columns
Think Progress —
... can hardly be refuted.” One anonymous McCain adviser quipped, “Is this from the Onion?” No, but it may be inspired by the stage at the ...
We seem to be having a Star Trek TOS meme going with Obama, here.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... is causing your political opponent's
campaign to immediately reply, "Is
this from the Onion?" - then you may want to reconsider your
basic theme. What, too late? ...
Better Than The Onion
Right Wing Nation —
They just make it so easy.
When Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., moves the Democratic National Convention from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field in Denver on Thursday, the freshman senator is planning to speak from a columned stage resembling an ancient Greek temple.
“Is this from the Onion?” quipped a McCain adviser.
The reference to the satirical newspaper came after Reuters reported that Obama is planning an elaborate rock concert setup complete with post-speech fireworks.
The national anthem will ...
A Sycophant in Wolffe’s Clothing
Pajamas Media —
... to conservatives, “Obama’s work as an Alinsky-style community organizer” did not evidence a belief in socialism and neither did the nominee’s telling Joe the Plumme r that he wanted to spread his wealth around. Further, Wolffe views our current economic shenanigans as being not the biggest federal power grab in history, but instead his hero laboring “to save business from itself.” We also find that Obama’s ridiculous Greek t em p le back d rop at the Dem o cratic c onventi ...
