Obama Invents a New 'Rising Sun' Presidential Seal

[Flacolaco]

Or someone else standing in front of some pillars....

[DirkFTW]

DENVER - Democrats will kneel before the "Temple of Obama" tonight.

As if a Rocky Mountain coronation were not lofty enough, Barack Obama will aim for Mount Olympus when he accepts his party's nomination atop an enormous, Greek-columned stage - built by the same cheesy set team that put together Britney Spears' last tour.

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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.

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[purplefrog]

Originally Posted by Evilmav2

Obama's Denver Speech Stage to Resemble Ancient Greek Temple

Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:00pm EDT

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 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.

Politicians in past elections have typically spoken from the convention site itself, but the Obama campaign liked the idea of having their man speak to a larger, stadium-sized crowd not far from where the Democratic National Convention is being held, at the Denver pro basketball arena.

Obama was taking a page from the campaign book of John Kennedy in 1960 when the future president delivered his acceptance speech to 80,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum.

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

Democratic convention organizers said the theme for the evening is "Change We Can Believe In," which has been a consistent message of Obama's presidential campaign.

Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson will sing the national anthem that night.

(Reporting by Steve Holland; editing by David Wiessler)

http://www.reuters.com/article/polit...36979020080826


Vero Possumus

[12 Tone Melodies]

Not really a sign from Obama, but...

All the creative libs and their superior intellects, or so they keep telling us, couldn't even come up with an original campaign theme:
If anyone happens to know which season it was, please let me know. Thanks

20 + years ago on the sit-com Cheers, Woody, the woodheaded peckerwood bartender, got a wild hair and decided to run for IIRC the city council
When one of the other regulars ponted out that Woody didn't know anything about running a political campaign, his response was was that he would just pick his best picture, blow it up into a poster, put his name on the top and the word "CHANGE" across the bottom
When it was pointed out that he didn't know anything about politics, his response was that anytime a reporter asked a question, or a TV camera was on him, he would say one word: "CHANGE"

[chumdawg]

Before you realized that, you thought a cry for "change" was original?

[12 Tone Melodies]

Originally Posted by chumdawg

Before you realized that, you thought a cry for "change" was original?

Well no, but it was nice to pinpoint one of the predecessors

[purplefrog]

I like this one: