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August 27, 2008 By Fausta

The upcoming Invesco Field Olympus

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Pejman’s asking, This Is A Joke, Right?

For good reason: Obama Speech Stage Resembles Ancient Greek Temple.

John McCormack has a photo:

Or, as the trekkers would ask, Who Mourns for Adonis?

Yes. A Greek temple for the Messiah! Come to think of it, how appropriate a send-off for a candidate whose proposed economic policies will send us to prehistoric times.

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.

Let me guess: Zeus The Annointed one will rise as the full orchestra plays Thus Spake Zaratustra!

2008: A Spaced Oddity.

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.

This will give everyone present the opportunity to chant “Obama, Obama”, just like the Germans. Of course, beams of light will radiate from his brow, Zeus-like:

Once Obama speaks, confetti will rain down on him and fireworks will be fired off from locations around the stadium wall.

Bill’s going to miss out on all the fun. Big as Invesco Field may be, it can’t fit TWO egos that size.

But, will Gerard Baker be there?

Continuing on a theme of antiquity, pocket change:

Both are like ancient coins whose identifying marks have been all but effaced by being handed around promiscuously for so long.

Go read the rest.

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Ed goes the full Star Trek length:

combined with the so-called “sign of progress”, Barack Obama may be better suited to run for the presidency of the United Federation of Planets than the USA.

TigerHawk invites “your own suggestions for additional Original Trek imagery that ought to be incorporated into the Obama campaign.”

Continuing on the entertainment/architectural theme: Illinois Obama and the Temple of Gloom

By the way, Commenters have mentioned that the Ivesco temple is supposed to be reminiscent of the Lincoln Memorial, and of Martin Luther King’s speech in Washington, the anniversary of which is the day of Obama’s speech. May I point out two things:
1. Lincoln was a Republican.
2. Martin Luther King was a Republican.

And now for the video: Via Breibart TV,

Judging from the video, the temple looks like the Roman monument that Vittorio Emanuele built as a memorial … to himself:

How apt.

Hmmm Gateway Pundit says Russia’s Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg. I say Vittorio.

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  1. expat says

    August 27, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Wouldn’t it be fun to rent a storefront in Hyde Park and play Baker’s video in the show window for the next few months?

  2. Suzette says

    August 27, 2008 at 10:17 am

    I wonder if the refreshment stand will offer loaves and fishes? I’m pretty sure there will be some smoke blowing around, too.

  3. zoey says

    August 27, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Fausta lmao… this is good stuff! i’m blogging it.

  4. Silvering says

    August 27, 2008 at 10:46 am

    My suggestion is that they put some wires on Obama and lift him up so he can float around the stadium at the close of his speech, a la the Olympic Opening Ceremonies.

  5. Beth Donovan says

    August 27, 2008 at 10:47 am

    Heh. If this Star Trek theme continues, I bet his next sound bite will be, “A Tribble in every pot!”

  6. youpeoplewillcomplainaboutanything says

    August 27, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Wait…so the Lincoln Memorial is a Greek temple? I’m so confused.

  7. Rob Crawford says

    August 27, 2008 at 11:47 am

    Just call him “Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Obama”.

  8. Bigfoot says

    August 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    Or, as the trekkers would ask, Who Mourns for Adonis?

    Trekkers? I resemble that remark! One of my favorite episodes, in which the Enterprise crew meets the god Apollo. Back when it was first aired, NASA was working on a project called….Apollo.

    Instead of “I am Apollo”, it’s “I am Obama”.

  9. Anthony (Los Angeles) says

    August 27, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    You know, the piece de resistance would be for the Prophet Barack to make his entrance to Wagner’s Also Sprach Zarathustra.

  10. Dan Collins says

    August 27, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    Fiasco Field.

  11. Pat Patterson says

    August 27, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Yep, the Lincoln Memorial is a larger copy of the Temple of Zeus at Olympus. The facade that the boy-king of Chicago has ordered is of the same architectural design, using the Doric order unlike the the Star Trek version which used the Ionic.

    But I’m not going to get to worked up unless some of the following happen. That the speech has been delayed because of bad omens revealed when Bill Clinton was sacrificed so his entrails could be read(the most popular event of the day) and then Sen. Obama has been ordered by Zeus to offer up his youngest daughter to propitiate the other Olympian gods. The crowd commits proskynesis on the arrival of the senator on his newly named horse, Bucephalus. Of course several of the Obamites have already done this voluntarily so this is not quite as significant. Some of his female supporters attack, dismember and then eat the fatty parts of members of the national media for displeasing the senator. And lastly and most importantly, unless he is elected to the presidency by acclamation then he will return to Denver the day after the vote and drink hemlock.

    Like I said, I’ll worry when those things transpire.

  12. Dan Collins says

    August 27, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    Pat, not to obtrude, but that’s a Geek temple in the Dork style, known for it’s restrained use of phallic symbols.

  13. Fausta says

    August 27, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Pat Patterson, I worship at your mythological geeky feet.

  14. Pat Patterson says

    August 27, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    Good I want to be know for ancient trivia not things that go boom!

  15. jude says

    August 27, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    Can you say, “Capital” of the US?

    Did it not occur to you that this recreates the setting–on the column-rich plaza of the US Capital– of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech, on the anniversary of which Obama accepts the nomination?

    But no, mockery first, facts later.

  16. Fausta says

    August 27, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech, on the anniversary
    Jude, if that is indeed the case, it would serve Obama’s people well to remember that MLK was a REPUBLICAN.

  17. Fausta says

    August 27, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why%20MLK%20was%20a%20Republican Why Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican

  18. Pat Patterson says

    August 27, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    Can you spell “Capitol” of the US?

    Did it not occur to you that the National Mall is anchored on the east end by the World War II Memorial which consists of pillars not columns and is barely visible looking down the Reflecting Pool from the top step of the Lincoln Memorial. And towering over that is the Washington Monument which is an obelisk not a column.

    But no, bad description first, spelling later.

  19. J in Denver says

    August 27, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Oh. My. God. How dare Sen. Obama use a decorative theme for his stage that is remeniscent of nearly every Federal Building/Monument in Washington D.C…

    Idiot Trolls will be the death of us all.

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