Obama's Columns At Invesco Stir GOP

The McCain campaign is ecstatic over this report 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."

By noon, three emails mocking Obama over the columns had been blasted out by the Republican National Committee, with more sure to come.

The Obama campaign is mostly silent on the issue, eager not to spoil any surprises for Thursday night. But one convention official said that the columns are meant to reference Washington DC, not ancient Greece, a fact that will become clear as the program unfolds in the lead up to Obama's speech.

In the meantime, ThinkProgress has posted photos from the 2008 Virginia Republican Convention, which also used columns as a backdrop.

And HuffPost blogger Bob Cesca has an impressive collection of photos of John McCain posing in front of columns.

Comments

[olivia]

Mockery is all they have.

Anything to avoid the issues.

[Speakchic]

Right!

[tdpubs]

This of course is another non-story.

[dnegri]

It's news because you need to look at all the "positive traction" McCain has gotten out of the "celebrity/Messiah/The One" advertisements. Believe me, they worked with enough voters in defining Obama for them to get McCain at least 5% in the polls. Don't needlessly feed the beast when you know the beast wants to eat you alive. So, yes, this is "news".....or shall we say, potential news (and bad, I fear). Anyway, if Obama does a really really bang up job, then some of the Repub mockery might be blunted.
But I'd have prefered to not have it necessary that way.

[homerun]

they are a bunch of hypocrites.

[dnegri]

Well, the Obama campaign may have done it again....does Obama want to make us think he's in Soldier's Field? I really wonder who made that call. And, of couse, changing the decor would probably make it even a bigger story now. Yep. More of the "He's A God" crap from the right's hit squad. And this one really should have been anticipated......

[mediamarv]

I agree, sort of, but when one is dealing with the completely unhinged lunatic crowd, how can one anticipate all the totally off the wall nuttiness???

[rwe]

Soldier Field...

[tdpubs]

There are people who are well paid to come up with all kinds of crap. It does not matter what a Democratic candidate does. They are paid to come up with sh*t.

[Dissident Dexter]

you must be a chicago native. everyone else, including the sign on the stadium, calls it SOLDIER FIELD. singular.

[sandiegoconservative]

LOL- Everyone should watch the movie "Miracle".

[smark]

These people need to get back to work on all these horrid economic issues and stop acting like IMBECILES!! WHATEVER HAPPENED TO "We are going to run a respectable campaign"??????? DID THE STRAIGHT TALK BUS CRASH AND BURN???

[riley85]

Americans saw an egomaniac in Berlin and he will surface again in Denver.

What the heck is Obama thinking? This is as stupid as that opossum seal.
And he says McCain is out of touch.

[itsamessi]

Standing in front of columns makes you stupid.

Giving a speach in front of 100000 people who you obviously forced marched to come and watch you, makes you an Egomaniac.

McCain is not out of touch as the fundementals of our economy are strong and offshore drilling will cut gas prices in the next few weeks.

The strange universe we inhabit.

[mama mac]

Indeed.

[Aleka4]

Do you read your stuff before oyu post it, or do you just spew stupidity naturally?

You tooI. The article says it references Washington AND that the repubs have used columns also. They just look stup!d for jumping on it, and you look even more stup!d for not only jumping on it with NO information, but for not reading the article either.

[WillNYC]

lol... you are soo s t u p i d

[PlainBread]

Egomaniac? No, Bush is THE egomaniac, destroying US good image in front of the world, ruining the economy, wasting money for stupid war, and Mccain favors all of them.

When Obama went abroad, you call him egomaniac. When Bush or McCain or Cindy did the same thing, what'd you call them? Patriotic? Patriotic My As*.

Now what the heck are you thinking? You're just as stupid as Bush and McCain. No wonder the entire world has been laughing at us and hating us for the last 8 years.

Can't wait for 4 more months.

[jOke]

... ... ... so what do you say about those two pictures above??? im curious to hear your thoughts...

[sandiegoconservative]

Genius jOke

As I posted before, one is a replica of the Virginia State Capitol, which is pretty normal considering its the Republican party of Virginia.

The second appears to be a photo op for something for McCain. He is not posing for the picture as a prelim for the RNC.

BOTH are completely different than creating a stage for Obama. The only way the DNC could top it off is to have mist gather around the stage at dusk and have Obama fly down on a line from the top of the stadium with wings attached to his back.

[johnu1974]

these idiot republicans are looking for anything. they thought they had the PUMAs, but they fizzled. they thought michelle would flounder under pressure, she more than suceeded. they were hoping hilary's speech would fall flat, it didn't. they're praying we would still be divided, but we are united. they know their own convention will fall flat. their speakers stink. they have no way near the diversity the dems do, and their party is fractured. it will be more if mccain nominates LIEberman.

[barackobama4prez]

Looking foward to see McGasbag standing at his war convention, maybe with a purple velvet backdrop...talking about "that's not change we can believe in."

[DaOne]

And delivering bottled hot water to babies.

[Concerned1]

Talking about calling the kettle blog. Why is this news?