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Obama To Elevate Into Miniature Greek Temple, With Fireworks
Ace of Spades HQ — Obama To Elevate Into Miniature Greek Temple, With Fireworks I think he's pretty much baiting people to call him the AntiChrist at this point. 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. He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that ...

I can’t decide…
sweasel.com — Is this bugfuck crazy, or stone cold retarded? DENVER (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple. The stage, similar 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 ...

The End is Nigh
Six Meat Buffet — ... Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple. ...

McCain Aide Mocks Obama: 'Is This From the Onion?'
JammieWearingFool — If Barack Obama is so sensitive about being typecast as an empty-headed celebrity, why does he continue to keep teeing it up for the McCain campaign. He's just making it too easy. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple. The stage, similar 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 ...

The Temple of Obama
Power Line — Reuters reports that "Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple." John McCormack posts a photograph of the stage under construction ...

Matt Lewis: Messianic Complex?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — From Reuters : "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 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 Greek temple." For more ...

Barack Obama Denver Stage Resembles Greek Temple
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... News item: Obama speech stage resembles ancient Greek temple Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple. The stage, similar 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 ...

Believing Your Own Press
Stones Cry Out — ... But it looks like the guy’s starting to cater to this feeling by giving his acceptance speech in a mock-up of a Greek temple.  ...

Around the Web: 2008
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, August 27, 2008 [image] Around the Web: 2008 [Katherine Connell] The latest on the candidates . . . Democratic Convention Obama Speech Stage Resembles Ancient Greek Temple Reuters [image] ...

A Temple For Obama
Hyscience — Reuters reports (HT - Powerline) that "Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple." John McCormack has a photograph of the stage under construction here. The Political Enquirer visualizes the scene below where Barack will be giving his acceptance speech - a miniature version of an ancient Greek temple, as in the kind of structures where Gods were worshiped, of course. PE calls it "An Ego For The Ages In A Classical Setting": ...

Bush, RNC Both Heart Greek Columns, Too!
TPM Election Central — ... You've no doubt heard about the GOP's valient efforts to make an issue today out of this Reuters story reporting that Obama will make his Thursday speech before a reproduction of "an elaborately columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple." ...

When History Makes the Latest Flap a Non-Story
PoliGazette — ... The "he’s an elitist" story of the day is all about Barack Obama’s plans to give his acceptance speech tomorrow in front of a replica of a wall of an ancient Greek temple, column, lintel, and all. ...

Republicans In A Tizzy Over Invesco Set
Crooks and Liars — ... The impetus of this scandal is this article from Reuters, which breathlessly described the set for the upcoming speech by Barack Obama at Invesco Stadium as looking like an ...

A Sycophant in Wolffe’s Clothing
Pajamas Media — ... 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 ...