Will this turn out to be Barack Obama's Temple of Doom?
ABC News offers this Reuters report:
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 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.
The show should provide a striking image for the millions of Americans watching on television as Obama delivers a speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
Yes, the "show" should provide a striking image for the Americans watching on TV.
Strikingly goofy!
It was bad enough when Barack Obama trotted out his phony presidential seal on the campaign trail.
Now, he's constructing a temple to himself, a temple of plywood columns, a phony White House!
This is a facade in every sense of the word. It's plywood, not marble.
This phony grandeur is embarrassing. It's inappropriate.
How does this sort of architecture relate to the struggling blue-collar, lunch bucket crowd?
I thought Obama was supposed to be "ordinary folks," just like us. That's what Michelle Obama said on Monday night in her address to the convention.
Obama supposedly isn't elitist, yet he builds himself a temple?
There's a striking disconnect here.
Instead of a celebration of the common man (no woman on the ticket), Obama will make his acceptance speech from a grand stage built for a god.
I guess Obama and his handlers have forgotten that whole humble, lying in a manger thing.
Obama's Temple of Doom?
That's a really strange podium. What's with all those steps leading up to it? Is that supposed to be like Obama on the mountaintop?
This guy's ego is out of control. It's really getting weird now.
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The Bush Administration remade the press room in the White House with the same type of columns. It is a form of political architecture that has been practiced since large capitol buildings were built in the Midwest to remind the native americans who was boss - and long before.
It is the same type of political architecture that leads the United States to build the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad. The message being sent is we aren't going anywhere.
Obama has done many things in this campaign to make him appear Presidential. My personal opinion is that he has been successful in doing this. I thought his foreign trip to the Mideast and Europe especially lended images that showed him in Presidential moments.
It is the same thing the Bush family has done (and almost all future, current, and past presidents).
My favorite example is when George W. went to Mount Rushmore and his press people only allowed the television cameras to be placed in areas that would show Bush with his head in line with the great Presidents of history. That was a funny one and I would imagine a very arrogant and presumptuos pose according to your apparent standards.
Your spin doesn't cut it, PIA.
You can't compare the architecture of government buildings or camera angles with what Obama is doing.
Common man?
Yeah right.
Nothing like a temple to win over the blue-collar vote.
It's all show, no substance with Obama. The man has no grasp on simple history. He's just a front.
I think his lack of substance is becoming more and more apparent.
Obama has become a brand, an image.
That's a problem.
I don't know which is worse the fact that the hypocritical republican hate machine refuses to acknowledge that the stage used at the 2008 Virginia Republican Convention more closely resembles a Greek temple or that there are American's dumb enough to not recognize the style of architecture being used for Sen Obama's stage is the same used throughout most of Washington D.C. for government buildings and monuments.
The stage was over-the-top. Especially for the party of the common man. Rationalize it and excuse it any way that you care to, but it was too much. But these things happen when delusion is running rampant among a group of people that have a lot of other people's money at their disposal.
The stage was an enormous mistake.
If Obama wants to paint himself as the common man, he can't do it with a set designed by Britney Spears' tour team.
He can't afford to appear Hollywood if he wants to be seen as a regular blue-collar guy.
What color is George Clooney's collar?
since when does a greek temple have windows?
The backdrop that was visible in the frame during Obama's speech looked awful.
It looked like a bad set from a grade school play.
I guess the Britney Spears' team didn't think about how it would look on TV.
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