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Lottery Poll Is Barack Obama's stage in Denver too ostentatious? TEMPLE OF DEM ON MT O-LYMPUS GOP MOCKS GRAND STAGE AS GREEK HUBRIS By JEREMY OLSHAN and GEOFF EARLE, Post Correspondents Loading new images...
Discussion Board I'm trying to figure out "Logan's" post from earlier today when he/she stated that Obama's got game. He's an empty suit making stump speeches of pieced together soundbytes. He's already promised tax hikes, deep cuts in military...
John McCain's campaign mocked the massive neoclassical set created for Obama's speech at 75,000-seat Invesco Field. Some Republicans have dubbed it the "Barackopolis," while others suggested the delegates should wear togas to fit in among the same Doric columns the ancient Greeks believed would stroke the egos of Zeus and Athena.
Barack Obama would descend down from the heavens and spend a little time with us mere mortals when accepting the Democratic nomination," said Republican National Committee spokesman Danny Diaz. The McCain campaign quickly dispatched a memo calling the stage the "Temple of Obama." "We would have expected to read something like this in The Onion. Unfortunately for Obama, it's true," a McCain adviser told The Post. But the set is designed to evoke the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, not the Acropolis, said staging supervisor Bobby Allen, a Spears set vet. "We've done Britney's sets and a whole bunch of rock shows, but this was far more elaborate and complicated and we had to do it in far less time," said Allen, of RDA Entertainment. "The biggest challenge has been making sure we don't damage the playing field underneath." Asked who is harder to sat isfy - the Democrats or Britney - Allen replied: "I better not answer that." The curved, columned backdrop does resemble the portico of the White House, and blue carpeting and podium surrounded by white stars is suggestive of the Oval Office, other crew members said. Democrats quickly pointed out that George W Bush accepted the Republican nomination before a similar, though less elaborate, stage in 2004. Obama chose to accept the nomination at Invesco Field and not at the Pepsi Center, where the rest of the convention is being held, so he can reach out to a larger number of supporters - a move John F Kennedy employed in 1960. The late decision to move the speech to the football stadium did not give Allen and the other contractors much time to make the Olympian stage a reality. "We knew about it for only a few weeks, and had only one week to actually assemble this," he said.
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