"Centuwion! Fwow him to the fwoor!"

"I am the Alpha and the Obama, the beginning and the end."

I vote for the "Whatever."
;)

Oedipus Rex

Ego the size of a planet and he only gets to be president of a country.

Too much fawning.

How appropriate.

Let's see what Day Three of Jackass Fest 2008 brings.

All hail the Obamessiah. Huzzah!
And my leg is so tingly...

re: #1 rawmuse

"Centuwion! Fwow him to the fwoor!"

I have a good fwend named Hiwawwy.

I saw a "set" this morning on TV that was identified as the place that Barrack would address the masses. It looked more like a portion of the white house than a greek temple.

Picture of the obama's temple.

re: #6 Kosh's Shadow

Ego the size of a planet and he only gets to be president of a country.

Wait. It's still early in his career yet.

re: #1 rawmuse

Fwo him viowently to the fwoor !

The King looks like the Piss Boy!

In the audience, Barackolytes will be clutching little icons of the Messiah and weeping with joy.

re: #1 rawmuse

"Centuwion! Fwow him to the fwoor!"

Speaking of which, when is Biggus Dickus speaking at the convention?

Priceless...I love it!

re: #14 Ojoe

Fwo him viowently to the fwoor !

We're the Popular Denver People's Front!

e tu Billius?

Wild arugula couldn't drag him away.

Only one Dkos diary on this...
Please, Obama, no Greek Temple

[Update:] There are a lot of people ridiculing me for this diary and that's fine. People are certainly entitled to their opinion and I'll recognize that I may be oversensitive. But also understand that the frame is already beginning. MSNBC, ABC, and Reuters have already made the link. It will become the narrative before Obama even gives his speech. The republicans will have an ad out Friday morning hitting him for the celebrity theme and there will be specific mentions of the stage.

If you think I'm over-reacting that's fine, just accept there will be over-reactions from the media, too - and that it will become an issue.

The Messiah needs a temple. Behead those who suggest otherwise.

re: #12 newsjunkie_ky

Hmm, that might look impressive on TV. From this distance, not so much.

Beware of pseudo-Greeks bearing Hope! and Change!

Is that arugula? HAHAHAHA!

re: #6 Kosh's Shadow

BIG EGO IS RIPPING US OFF!

I don't think the American public will like this; we like people who are more down-to-earth, not someone on Mount Olympus.

It is going to be messy when an ego this big is popped.

The Obamacropolis!

re: #1 rawmuse

"Centuwion! Fwow him to the fwoor!"

Vewy wew! Wewease Hiwwawy Wodhams dewegates!

I find his choice of columns very ionic.

Is that aragula in Obama's left hand?

re: #16 doppelganglander

In the audience, Barackolytes will be clutching little icons of the Messiah and weeping with joy.

/Barak O (for orgasmic) bama!
Leg all tingly...ooohhh.
Need a cigarette. [and I don't even smoke]

re: #19 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

We're the Popular Denver People's Front!

Denver People's Popular Front!

re: #13 Irene NYC

Wait. It's still early in his career yet.

What, he's going to steal the spacecraft "Heart of Gold" and go off with a sexy Earth woman?

re: #32 really grumpy big dog Johnson

Yes, grumpy, it is.

After he speaks, the adoring masses will shower him with chunks of feta.

McCain should introduce himself at the upcoming convention by walking out through a bevy of nubiles waving palm fronds.

re: #19 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

We're the Popular Denver People's Front!

SPLITTERS!

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

re: #29 JammieWearingFool

Obamatorium!

re: #32 really grumpy big dog Johnson

Is that aragula in Obama's left hand?

Yep! LOL!

re: #31 Silhouette

I find his choice of columns very ionic.

But there's a big doric in the middle.

OT

Realwest asked me to convey this message to the lizard nation.

realwest is probably not gonna be on LGF for a couple of days and says "he hopes you're all doing well and that he hopes to get the chance to see you all down the road!" LOL!

"I am that I am."

re: #42 Killgore Trout

Obamatorium!

Obamaphobia!

Speaking of which, anyone who hasn't seen this site yet is missing out. It's hilarious!

... and your point is?

/isn't this where the Enterprise phasers the whole thing away?

re: #35 Kosh's Shadow

What, he's going to steal the spacecraft "Heart of Gold" and go off with a sexy Earth woman?

I don't know if Michelle could be characterized as "a sexy Earth woman."
;)

re: #34 Honorary Yooper

Denver People's Popular Front!

We spit on the DPPF!

SPLITTERS!

Friends, citizens, lend me your wallets!

Is there anyone in Obama's entourage who recognizes that he is loosing support because he appears to be an arrogant ass? An Americans really don't like arrogant asses.

re: #37 JammieWearingFool

After he speaks, the adoring masses will shower him with chunks of feta.

and bricks...

Is that arugula he's holding?

Is the symbolism that he needs an aphrodisiac or he brings it to "entice" people to vote for him?

re: #45 jorline

Bummer. Hang in there, realwest.

Interesting how the birthplace of democracy is being invoked by people who are trying to do everything to deny democracy.

re: #45 jorline
Send our regards to real!

(Friends, citizens, lend me your ears) is what the real Greek said.

Do not ask what I can do for you...

What, no Obama flag?

I can't decide if this is a Greek tragedy or comedy...

Love the dandelion greens. He must be pulling up weeds. Or is that Astragula?

re: #50 Irene NYC

I don't know if Michelle could be characterized as "a sexy Earth woman."
;)

And she'd never let him near Trillian.

re: #38 The Shadow Do

McCain should introduce himself at the upcoming convention by walking out through a bevy of nubiles waving palm fronds.

Actually McCain should do all he can to just come across as a regular guy.

re: #54 Nevergiveup

Racist!

Charles, this is beautiful. Thank you for capturing that certain quality.

I guess he had to make the speech in an outdoor stadium because his ego has gotten too big to fit inside a basketball arena.

Hail Obama!

re: #58 Sharmuta

Interesting how the birthplace of democracy is being invoked by people who are trying to do everything to deny democracy.

In order to create their utopia, they have to destroy democracy.

re: #50 Irene NYC

I don't know if Michelle could be characterized as "a sexy Earth woman."
;)

He'd better not kidnap Zoe Deschanel!

re: #63 Athos

I can't decide if this is a Greek tragedy or comedy...

That depends on what happens Nov. 4th?

Triumphalist!

Pride goeth before a fall.

re: #63 Athos

I can't decide if this is a Greek tragedy or comedy...

It depends on whether he wins or loses.

re: #1 rawmuse

"Centuwion! Fwow him to the fwoor!"

"I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called 'Biggus Dickus'."

Or is the arugula another hit at the snob in him?

To be or not to be...

Will the Obamessiah be lowered onto the stage with invisible wires?

/Spinal Tap!

re: #63 Athos

I can't decide if this is a Greek tragedy or comedy...

A dark comedy.

I said this before, but this is the correct post:

Narcissus/ Pontificus 08

re: #72 victor_yugo

He'd better not kidnap Zoe Deschanel!

Not a chance in a Trillian.

re: #12 newsjunkie_ky

Cap'n Ed has a great take on it, too.

re: #80 Sharmuta

A dark comedy.

A Dadaist farce.

Middle America will not like this hubris. The other day , I said that the Acropolis must be booked. I was close

re: #60 alegrias

(Friends, citizens, lend me your ears) is what the real Greek said.

You can't mention the ears!

Does this greek stage go deeper at showing obama's psyche? Is this some sort of Oedipal complex manifesting itself?

re: #50 Irene NYC

I don't know if Michelle could be characterized as "a sexy Earth woman."
;)

She's more like Marvin...or maybe the complaining elevators. Or a Vogon.

re: #48 danS

Speaking of which, anyone who hasn't seen this site yet is missing out. It's hilarious!

Excellent! lol

re: #31 Silhouette

I find his choice of columns very ionic.

Cult leaders are funny that way. (David Miscavige, Church of Scientology)

re: #54 Nevergiveup

Is there anyone in Obama's entourage who recognizes that he is loosing support because he appears to be an arrogant ass? An Americans really don't like arrogant asses.

* * *
Naomi Wolf tried to humanize Al Gore's arrogance by making him wear earth tones, brown, etc.

Most of us weren't fooled, and Gore is still an arrogant guy, only now Gore's a Nobel Peace Prized size arrogant Citizen of the World.

Looks like an episode out of Star Trek...I forget the planet they were on.

TO-GA! TO-GA! TO-GA!

Since Barry now views himself as the Greek protagonist, he might want to study up on hubris, and what it inevitably leads to.

re: #58 Sharmuta

Interesting how the birthplace of democracy is being invoked by people who are trying to do everything to deny democracy.

It's dripping with irony, ain't it?

re: #76 Honorary Yooper

"I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called 'Biggus Dickus'."

Bill?
Most of this convention is closer to Inconinentia Buttocks.

re: #87 Sharmuta

Does this greek stage go deeper at showing obama's psyche? Is this some sort of Oedipal complex manifesting itself?

"The Oedipus complex in Freudian psychoanalysis is named after the Greek mythical character Oedipus, who unknowingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother, Jocasta."

Maybe that is why his father ran back to Kenya?

re: #82 jamgarr

Not a chance in a Trillian.

LOL! ⁵

I love the Arugula leaves. NIce touch

"Fwends, Womans, Countwymens, wend me your wears. Do not mourn the woss of Hiwawwy..."

re: #86 Silhouette

You can't mention the ears!

* * *
That's why I said "Friends, citizens, lend me your wallets" first.

re: #87 Sharmuta

Does this greek stage go deeper at showing obama's psyche? Is this some sort of Oedipal complex manifesting itself?

I'm thinking more of a facade fit for a fascist...Albert Speer designed a number of monuments for Hitler's Berlin based on Greek and Roman architecture.

re: #66 Nevergiveup

Actually McCain should do all he can to just come across as a regular guy.

Oh I don't know. Hard to walk past the low hanging lampoon here.

re: #93 rockman

TO-GA! TO-GA! TO-GA!

PU-MA! PU-MA! PU-MA!

"Nam Hillaryam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi
in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σιβυλλα
τι θελεις; respondebat illa: αποθανει&# 957; θελω."

This will sink him, mark my words.

He will be the only candidate with a NEGATIVE bounce after his convention

Why choose images of ruins from the past?

Or will he magically appear on stage in a puff of smoke?

I can't wait until they drag Hillary in chains in front of the Emperor and the drama builds until he puts his thumb up or down.

Which do you think? Thumb up? Thumb down?

re: #96 Kosh's Shadow

Bill?
Most of this convention is closer to Inconinentia Buttocks.

She gave her speech yesterday...

re: #97 Iron Fist

Appears to be? I'd say Barrack Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Named Obama exemplifies the Way of the Arrogant Ass. Arrogant, self-indulgant, egocentrical, NPD, Obama's got it all going on.

Like I said on the previous thread, it's Jackass Fest 2008.

I would've used "Assfest 2008", but that has too many connotations of the Folsom Street Fair.

re: #104 Athos

I'm thinking more of a facade fit for a fascist...Albert Speer designed a number of monuments for Hitler's Berlin based on Greek and Roman architecture.

And he did give that speech in Germany next to that monument Hitler had moved?

re: #92 So?

Looks like an episode out of Star Trek...I forget the planet they were on.

You mean Who Mourns for Adonis

At least he didn't appoint his horse to the senate... yet.

re: #110 NoSubmission

Or will he magically appear on stage in a puff of smoke?

Lord Obama's candidacy is rapidly going away in a puff of smoke.

Protestors update...

Overnight the City of Denver fenced off Civic Center Park. This weekend is an event called "A Taste of Colorado," which will have about a hundred food booths set up in the park.

We, Recreate 68 ALSO has a permit to use the park TODAY for some activities.

This was obviously a clever move by the city to mitigate any protesting. I don't know the legalities, but Recreate 68 is pissed.

It may get interesting, or dangerous, tonight.

Walter in Golden, Co.

re: #104 Athos

I'm thinking more of a facade fit for a fascist...Albert Speer designed a number of monuments for Hitler's Berlin based on Greek and Roman architecture.

Well- we already know he's a fascist. I just think it's obvious at this point he has a "love me daddy" issue.

re: #117 Kosh's Shadow

You mean Who Mourns for Adonis

Will we destroy his power source or will Clinton do that tonight?

re: #118 stevieray

At least he didn't appoint his horse to the senate... yet.

There are plenty of horse's asses already there. How would we know if there was one more?

re: #67 Iron Fist

"We are the Ones we've been waiting for..."

So was Lenin and his crew.

re: #117 Kosh's Shadow

You mean Who Mourns for Adonis

That's it! Thanks!

re: #107 Occasional Reader

"Nam Hillaryam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi
in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σιβυλ λα
τι θελει ς; respondebat illa: αποθα νειν θελω."

I could email my niece and ask her what all that means, but I'll just ask you directly -- huh?

re: #101 buzzsawmonkey

Forget the Greek stuff. If Obama wins, the US becomes Atlantis--the Lost Continent.

I was actually thinking of the fall of Rome myself. Obama as Nero who fiddles as the US burns.

re: #120 Walter L. Newton

Protestors update...

Overnight the City of Denver fenced off Civic Center Park. This weekend is an event called "A Taste of Colorado," which will have about a hundred food booths set up in the park.

We, Recreate 68 ALSO has a permit to use the park TODAY for some activities.

This was obviously a clever move by the city to mitigate any protesting. I don't know the legalities, but Recreate 68 is pissed.

It may get interesting, or dangerous, tonight.

Walter in Golden, Co.

We s/b Well (I'm not part of this)

This is not hubris, it is farce.
Not Aeschylus but Aristophanes.

The DNC finally has their schedule up for today, and indeed it shows a roll call vote sometime after 3 pm local time...
[Link: www.demconvention.com...]

Is it real or is it fake?

re: #118 stevieray

At least he didn't appoint his horse to the senate... yet.

Michelle has a lovely coltish look these days...and there's always senator Kerry

re: #118 stevieray

At least he didn't appoint his horse to the senate... yet.

Insert Michelle Obama joke here...

re: #87 Sharmuta

I think it's a combination of factors.

Ego for sure, but I'm sure his staffers are also going to try and claim that it will show Obama as Mr. Smith - going to Washington, and attempting to link Obama to the common man - figuring that having Obama appear with the stately columns behind him it will be like the steps of Congress.

The problem of course, is that this is all a stage show - expensive and overblown and overdrawn given the DNC money woes. Why spend even more on a second set that will be used for Obama's speech rather than the set at the Pepsi Center? Is the Pepsi Center insufficient to get his message across?

re: #115 Honorary Yooper

Like I said on the previous thread, it's Jackass Fest 2008.

I would've used "Assfest 2008", but that has too many connotations of the Folsom Street Fair.

Actually, *shudder* that might not be too far off.

re: #117 Kosh's Shadow

You mean Who Mourns for Adonis

I think it will end like Charlie X

"I wanna stay... stay... stay... stay... sta... "

He truly has divine proportions.

re: #118 stevieray

At least he didn't appoint his horse to the senate... yet.

Bullshitalus?

re: #109 SpartanWoman

Why choose images of ruins from the past?

* * *
Maybe the set is modeled after those "THree Tenor" Roman backgrounds for the concerts they keep rebroadcasting on PBS.

(with Domingo, Carreras & Pavarotti doing their schtick before the World Cup of 1992 attendees)

Wil there be go-go girls?

Doves released?

Parting of waters?

re: #122 SpartanWoman

Will we destroy his power source or will Clinton do that tonight?

McCain will come in flying an A-4 and take it out with precision bombing.

re: #16 doppelganglander

In the audience, Barackolytes will be clutching little icons of the Messiah and weeping with joy.

It's Obama bobblehead day at Mile High?

re: #112 faraway

I can't wait until they drag Hillary in chains in front of the Emperor and the drama builds until he puts his thumb up or down.

Which do you think? Thumb up? Thumb down?

* * *
McCain could ride in like Ben Hur in a chariot of horses! Go McCain, beat Masala!

re: #139 NoSubmission

Wil there be go-go girls?

Doves released?

Parting of waters?

Moses is busy...but the Pussy Cat Dolls are available.

Will he unfurl his ears and majestically take flight at the climax of the speach?

Isn't greco-roman excess what brought the Tyco pres down to ruins?

re: #87 Sharmuta

Does this greek stage go deeper at showing obama's psyche? Is this some sort of Oedipal complex manifesting itself?

Yes. Narcissism is a form of arrested Oedipal complex. Barack Obama spoke about his mother in surprisingly sensual terms ("white as milk"). He resented the way his father abandoned her ("punished with a child") when Obama was young. Growing up, Obama has filled this void with one older angry man after another (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Frank Davis).

Oedipus for sure.

re: #110 NoSubmission

Or will he magically appear on stage in a puff of smoke?

No.

[Obama] will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.

re: #121 Sharmuta

Love me daddy or just starting to believe all of the press that's written about him? Granted he might have a completely ficticous view about his absent daddy - but he seems to have accepted mentors as surrogates. It seems to me more that his ego is writing checks that he is starting to be unable to cash.

Obamamessiah - Press Bloviations Upon Him

re: #144 buzzsawmonkey

Just wait until we hear the sacrifices he will demand.

I hope he takes a book from Carter and talks about the "Malaise" in the country. That went over big?

"And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."

Sorry. He invites the comparison.

re: #117 Kosh's Shadow

You mean Who Mourns for Adonis

And another thing, Joe Biden stole his hair transplant from a tribble!

re: #139 NoSubmission

Wil there be go-go girls?

Doves released?

Parting of waters?

Kerry will be tossing medals into the crowd.

Spitzer will have some Emperor's Club chicks do a little go-go dancing.

William Jefferson will do some foil wrapping.

re: #152 Kenneth

And another thing, Joe Biden stole his hair transplant from a tribble!

There's always trouble with tribbles...

Rush has Huckabee on right now. Wonder why.

re: #133 lawhawk

I think it's a combination of factors.

Ego for sure, but I'm sure his staffers are also going to try and claim that it will show Obama as Mr. Smith - going to Washington, and attempting to link Obama to the common man - figuring that having Obama appear with the stately columns behind him it will be like the steps of Congress.

The problem of course, is that this is all a stage show - expensive and overblown and overdrawn given the DNC money woes. Why spend even more on a second set that will be used for Obama's speech rather than the set at the Pepsi Center? Is the Pepsi Center insufficient to get his message across?

I think the obama people also didn't factor in how this could also smack ego and elitism. He's elevating himself to a god-like figure. I think some people will see it more like that than will see it as invoking Jimmy Stewart. I think it's vague and over the top. It will be a turn off to a lot of people in the middle.

re: #141 Who Watches the Watchmen?

It's Obama bobblehead day at Mile High?

I wonder how much money I could bilk make from some wacko Obamanut by offering a hankie that The One "used" to wipe his holy brow?

What would a vial of BO's sweat go for on Ebay?

re: #151 Cognito

"And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."

Sorry. He invites the comparison.

BabbaZee would be thrilled to know you are now quoting her...

Don't get me wrong here - I'm not advocating anything - but you would think that the design folks (who I'm sure are getting paid a ton) would not want the thing to look like Largo Argentina where Caesar was assassinated.

[Link: blogs.chron.com...]

[Link: hotair.com...]

re: #118 stevieray

At least he didn't appoint his horse to the senate... yet.

No, but he did appoint that horse's ass in the senate to be his VP.
;)

re: #144 buzzsawmonkey

Just wait until we hear the sacrifices he will demand.

There will be human sacrifices now? OMG

Once again, hats off to the scheduler who booked the GOP convention to fire off immediately after the Donk charade. The underfunded McCain camp has shown themselves to be masters of the rope-a-dope, turning every pretentious BO misstep to good advantage. Every bit of the abnormal psychology behind the obama temple needs to be picked apart, studied, and thrown back in their faces next week. And then, as in any defensive war, when they are beyond their supply lines and the weather turns cold, we attack.

re: #146 SpartanWoman

Isn't greco-roman excess what brought the Tyco pres down to ruins?

* * *
Oy! Those ice statues...Mega million bucks party for his wife.

re: #88 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

She's more like Marvin...or maybe the complaining elevators. Or a Vogon.

shes a vogon. think about how cranky they were... even looks like one with that undershot jaw

re: #158 Kenneth

BabbaZee would be thrilled to know you are now quoting her...

We pull from the same source material.

re: #155 doppelganglander

Rush has Huckabee on right now. Wonder why.

Hopefully to skewer his ass

re: #148 Irene NYC

[Obama] will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.

The old Greek plays sometimes had a god take part; since those roles were played by machine, this was called "deus ex machina" (Latin, not Greek).
Somehow, coming in on a raised podium (machine raised?) brings this phrase to mind.

I keep thinking Obama is someone's idea of a very strange joke and that person is going to, at some point, jump out and scream "Got you. Got you all."

re: #153 faraway

Kerry will be tossing medals into the crowd.

Spitzer will have some Emperor's Club chicks do a little go-go dancing.

William Jefferson will do some foil wrapping.

Michelle will be leading the precession of the Vestal "Virgins".

re: #109 SpartanWoman

Why choose images of ruins from the past?

They really are not original thinkers. I mean it. Everything they are pushing domestically is only a variation on the old Stone Age policy of beating up people and taking their stuff. And their foreign policy looks a lot like the discredited concept of paying off the barbarians to leave you alone. And we all know how well that turned out.

Is he going to end his speech by playing the violin?

If it was Greek theme he wanted, he could have accepted the nomination at the Mt. Olympus Water Park in the Wisconsin Dells.

[Link: www.mtolympuspark.com...]

re: #161 faraway

There will be human sacrifices now? OMG

Yes, the Olympic torch is being imported from Beijing.

re: #152 Kenneth

And another thing, Joe Biden stole his hair transplant from a tribble!

Well, at least we know there are no Klingons around.

re: #152 Kenneth

And another thing, Joe Biden stole his hair transplant from a tribble!

Yes, but which tribble?

Anyone know the latest on the "floor" vote?

re: #129 Clio

This is not hubris, it is farce.
Not Aeschylus but Aristophanes.

Yes - but does BO and his advisors who perpetrated this farce actually know that?

re: #164 Karagush

shes a vogon. think about how cranky they were... even looks like one with that undershot jaw

And her speech on opening night could be likened to Vogon poetry. i certainly wanted to kill myself...I choose to drink vodka instead, but it was a near thing!

re: #161 faraway

There will be human sacrifices now? OMG

I can offer my ex-wife! LOL

re: #156 Sharmuta

It will be a turn off to a lot of people in the middle.

I think that is right on the money. It's part of the hubris of the hard left. If one doesn't not move to join them, they will not denigrate themselves to move away from their positions. This happened in 2004 and looks as if it will happen to a larger scale this November. After yet another election defeat - will they continue to move harder to the left from where they are now in their anger, bitterness, and frustration?

Ya got have virgins. There will probably be 71, just to throw the MSM off.

re: #117 Kosh's Shadow

You mean Who Mourns for Adonis

Dialogue:

"I can give life or death. What else does mankind demand of its gods?"
"Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate."

- Apollo and Kirk

re: #57 Killgore Trout

Bummer. Hang in there, realwest.

Killgore,

Sorry I don't understand, what's up with realwest?

Maybe they will offer Hillary up as a "human" sacrifice.

re: #46 Marine Mom

"I am that I am."

Jesus or Popeye?

From his Greek temple, he'll admonish Biden not to engage in any further plagiarism:

"Euripides speeches off, I break-a you face!"

re: #166 SpartanWoman

Hopefully to skewer his ass

It's pretty civil so far. Huckabee is downplaying his previous anti-Mormon rhetoric but it's not exactly a Romney love-in. Claims he has no inside info. Thinks Tom Ridge and Lieberman would be terrible. Calls the Biden pick "like going to Baskin Robbins and picking vanilla."

Advanced peek at the Obama cabinet introduction.

re: #185 Cygnus

JesusYahweh or Popeye?

(pwned by an atheist!)

So is this a real picture Hussein Husseinovich, or is it really a photoshop? I agree with that McCain staffer -- the Onion is having a hard time keeping up!

That photoshop is just awesome. Kudos to the guy at Political Inquirer who came up with that.

"Hope or Change or whatever."
--- The Moshiach Baruch O'Bummer - 2008

re: #180 Athos

After yet another election defeat - will they continue to move harder to the left from where they are now in their anger, bitterness, and frustration?

I think it's very likely they'll move more to the left- they will think like the islamists, that the problem is they're not left enough like the islamists think they're not islamic enough.

re: #45 jorline

Give our best wishes to Realwest. We look forward to hearing from him soon.

re: #167 Kosh's Shadow

The old Greek plays sometimes had a god take part; since those roles were played by machine, this was called "deus ex machina" (Latin, not Greek).
Somehow, coming in on a raised podium (machine raised?) brings this phrase to mind.

The report doesn't specify, but, clearly if they're erecting this custom stage set only for Obama's speech, they wouldn't go to the expense of including a lift if they weren't planning on using it, right?

Gonna be a lot of distraught moonbats when this over inflated condom pops. Not that that wouldn't be entertaining...

re: #188 lifeofthemind

Advanced peek at the Obama cabinet introduction.

A Funny Thing Happened... = great source material!

Obama to DNC: "Arrange food, drink, entertainment, and a sit-down orgy for fourteen forty thousand."

re: #189 Occasional Reader

(pwned by an atheist!)

Jesus used the term as well: "Before Abraham was, I Am." And it wasn't the first time the puppet cult leaders tried to murder him for it.

I have said this many times, but do Obama and Michelle sit around at night just dreaming up things to say and do the next day that are so outlandish just to see if the fools in the MSM will OK them?

re: #169 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Michelle will be leading the precession of the Vestal "Virgins".

Will they play "Fanfare for the Common Man" or "Thus Spake Zarathrustra" as he enters?

Breaking...

Obama will make David Copperfield disappear.

I did not come to praise Obama, but to ridicule and make light of him!

re: #196 maddogg

Gonna be a lot of distraught moonbats when this over inflated condom pops. Not that that wouldn't be entertaining...

From the Bad Names file: Hope and Change Condoms

re: #171 FreakyBoy

Is he going to end his speech by playing the violin?

Harp. They didn't have violins back then.

(Plenty of violence though.)

re: #201 So?

Breaking...

Obama will make David Copperfield disappear.

After the Denver mint levitates?

re: #202 maddogg

I did not come to praise Obama, but to ridicule and make light of him!

Racist!

I thought it was pretty funny to hear that the DNC had to kill the balloon drop because the field doesn't have a roof!

They are sooo smart. Not!

This looks like the Lincoln memorial. I wonder if Obama is planning to wrap his speech in Lincoln and MLK?

re: #196 maddogg

Gonna be a lot of distraught moonbats when this over inflated condom pops. Not that that wouldn't be entertaining...

I'll hear it at work. Right now, I guess my biggest moonbat co-worker has figured out I don't like Obama (based on some of his posts at Kos - he's asking there how to answer me for one of the comments I made, about Palis sending money to Obama, but I have SO MANY reasons not to like 0bama that this could keep him busy for a while)
Anyway, it should be rather depressing (for them) here after the election. Obama just doesn't get it.

re: #192 Sharmuta

I think it's very likely they'll move more to the left- they will think like the islamists, that the problem is they're not left enough like the islamists think they're not islamic enough.

And yet another round of purges will ensue. It's already happened over the Hillary vs. Obama supporters at the Daily Kos, and it will happen again when Obama loses the election. What they fail to realise is that every time they purge, they make yet another enemy, and shrink in size, importance, and relevancy.

This cannot be true...BUT

If it is, it should set off every bell for any Judaism understanding Jew. Massianic claims + Roman iconography?

So, I vote that we call his speech "Something Egotistical is on His Way to The Forum"

re: #12 newsjunkie_ky

Picture of the obama's temple.

Stonehenge
Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live
And they do live well.

Davit St. Hubbins

Well. Man.

Raggin' on Obama is so much fun I hate to temper my glee. But it does indeed appear that people on the other side of the aisle have pulled the same stunt...

I do hope someone will correct me. I'd love for Obama's arrogance to be original.

re: #161 faraway

There will be human sacrifices now? OMG

The entire population of the USA will be the human sacrifice.

I hope he saws someone in half.

ot:

Do any of you know anything about "Panda Internet Security"? My computer guy suggested that I get rid of my McAfee and get Panda for my home and work.

nu?

re: #210 Honorary Yooper

And yet another round of purges will ensue. It's already happened over the Hillary vs. Obama supporters at the Daily Kos, and it will happen again when Obama loses the election. What they fail to realise is that every time they purge, they make yet another enemy, and shrink in size, importance, and relevancy.

We should encourage this. Bwahaha.

re: #15 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

The King looks like the Piss Boy!

"Wait for the shake".

re: #200 The Other Les

Will they play "Fanfare for the Common Man" or "Thus Spake Zarathrustra" as he enters?

For Michelle, it will be Madonna's "Like a Virgin."

Because, obviously she isn't.

(And neither is Michelle.)

Dave Barry takes on the DNC hootenanny (emphasis mine):

It's hard to blame Sen. Clinton for being bitter. Here she is, the smartest human ever, PLUS she spent all those years standing loyally behind Bill Clinton wearing uncomfortable pantyhose (I mean Hillary was, not Bill) (although there are rumors), PLUS she went to the trouble and expense of acquiring a legal residence in New York State so she could be a senator from there, PLUS she assembled a team of nuclear-physicist-grade genius political advisors, PLUS she spent years going around to every dirtbag community in America explaining in detail her 23-point policy solutions for every single problem facing the nation including soybean blight. And after all that, she loses the nomination to a guy who has roughly the same amount of executive governmental experience as Hannah Montana. Hillary is like: "Are you KIDDING me?''

Worth the read.

re: #216 NoSubmission

I hope he saws someone in half.

I wanna see him pull a rabbit out of his ass.

re: #220 victor_yugo

For Michelle, it will be Madonna's "Like a Virgin."

Because, obviously she isn't.

(And neither is Michelle.)

Dems believe in "revirginization".

re: #208 skree

Nah, too specific and both were Republicans. He will talk in very vague and general terms about civil rights and racism...ignoring it was the Democrats that imposed Jim Crow and then had the majority of Democrats fight to maintain segregation.

re: #214 Cognito

Colonial (columned) theme architecture is as common in Virginia as stucco is in California.
You could not get away from it if you tried.

re: #222 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I wanna see him pull a rabbit out of his ass.

How 'bout a gerbil?

re: #200 The Other Les

Will they play "Fanfare for the Common Man" or "Thus Spake Zarathrustra" as he enters?

I can't see Fanfare for the Common Man being used here. It would be funny if they had black rectangular columns, monoliths, really, then they could use Zarathustra.

After the seal, I wonder if they'd try "Hail to the Chief".

re: #226 maddogg

How 'bout a gerbil?

A donkey?

re: #225 rawmuse

Colonial (columned) theme architecture is as common in Virginia as stucco is in California.
You could not get away from it if you tried.

Eh... it's pretty much the same as Obama's setup, really. Just being honest.

re: #222 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I wanna see him pull a rabbit out of his ass.

He would have to dislodge the MSM first, which would be quite a trick by itself

re: #210 Honorary Yooper

And yet another round of purges will ensue. It's already happened over the Hillary vs. Obama supporters at the Daily Kos, and it will happen again when Obama loses the election. What they fail to realise is that every time they purge, they make yet another enemy, and shrink in size, importance, and relevancy.

If one fails to learn from history then one is doomed to repeat it.

re: #228 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

A donkey?

Maybe his head.

obamicus: "veni, vedi, taxus"
translation "I came, I saw, I taxed you into the poor house"

re: #227 Kosh's Shadow

I can't see Fanfare for the Common Man being used here. It would be funny if they had black rectangular columns, monoliths, really, then they could use Zarathustra.

After the seal, I wonder if they'd try "Hail to the Chief".

Rumors are they plan to play "Ding dong the Witch is Dead!"

re: #33 Golem Akbar

/Barak O (for orgasmic) bama!
Leg all tingly...ooohhh.
Need a cigarette. [and I don't even smoke]

If that's the case Chrissy must be chainsmoking!

re: #229 Cognito

Eh... it's pretty much the same as Obama's setup, really. Just being honest.

Except that the building was already standing there in the Virginia pix whereas the Annointed One is having his built to spec.

re: #207 hippieforlife

I thought it was pretty funny to hear that the DNC had to kill the balloon drop because the field doesn't have a roof!

They are sooo smart. Not!

What comes down must have been up first.

re: #230 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

He would have to dislodge the MSM first, which would be quite a trick by itself

LOL, good one.

re: #177 yma o hyd

Yes - but does BO and his advisors who perpetrated this farce actually know that?

Better BHO and his acolytes do not know it -- or they might CHANGE to a less ridiculous style.

What matters is that the US voters know it.

If we are really lucky, BHO will be the first candidate laughed out of office.

re: #220 victor_yugo

The servant (we don't do slaves anymore, right?) standing behind him whispering

"this too shall pass"

is not going to be part of the ceremony.

re: #234 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Rumors are they plan to play "Ding dong the Witch is Dead!"

LOL, you're on a roll this morning.

re: #236 Irene NYC

Except that the building was already standing there in the Virginia pix whereas the Annointed One is having his built to spec.

No, the Virginia one is indoors as well... Or do you mean there's an indoor Greek templey-thing that's always there?

re: #225 rawmuse

Colonial (columned) theme architecture is as common in Virginia as stucco is in California.
You could not get away from it if you tried.

How much do they have in Denver?

re: #233 Spider Mensch

"Taxi, Texas, Taxes"

Trans.: "I came, I saw how big it was, so I taxed it"

re: #10 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I have a good fwend named Hiwawwy.

Do you find it... wisible when I say the name of my fwiend... Hiwawwy... Cwinton?

re: #214 Cognito

Well. Man.

Raggin' on Obama is so much fun I hate to temper my glee. But it does indeed appear that people on the other side of the aisle have pulled the same stunt...

I do hope someone will correct me. I'd love for Obama's arrogance to be original.

Cognito. That's the "Spinal Tap" version of what Nobama has.

Breaking:
The lower half of Obama's body has turned into a horse. He will enter the coliseum and reveal himself to the (m)asses.

YouTube Centaur

re: #38 The Shadow Do

McCain should introduce himself at the upcoming convention by walking out through a bevy of nubiles waving palm fronds.

He should come up from under water with an M-60 just like Rambo...

Okay so Obama wants to be a Greek God...Lets see which one.."The Greek Gods
The Lessor Gods([Link: www.desy.de...] ... Dionysus...
He has a dual nature. On the one hand bringing joy and devine ecstasy. On the other brutal, unthinking, rage.If he choses Dionysus can drive a man mad. No normal fetters can hold him or his followers...He is the only god to have a mortal parent. ...Dionysus wandered the world actively encouraging his cult...Unlike the other gods Dionysus was not only outside his believers but, also within them. "
[Link: www.desy.de...]

I imagine it's supposed to be a White House colonnade.

Image of Reagan walking through one:

[Link: www.reagan.utexas.edu...]

tater

re: #237 Silhouette

What comes down must have been up first.

Not if you're spelunking or SCUBA diving.

re: #246 rightwinger3

Cognito. That's the "Spinal Tap" version of what Nobama has.

A big thumbs up for the funny Spinal Tap reference. But my sense of partisan anger has been blunted by that photo, I've got to admit.

"He become a god..."

re: #243 debutaunt

How much do they have in Denver?

I'll jump in on that. Not much. The open air theatre in Civic Center Park was designed in the Greek style, but there is not very much Doric or other Greek column work in town.

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of dissembling,
the community organizer, promoted for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud Park of Hyde.

re: #214 Cognito

Portico and pediment borrowed from the Virginia capitol building in Richmond and the Rotunda in Charlottesville. Both designed by T. Jefferson. Both suited for the Virginia convention. A bit grand, maybe, but suited.

re: #229 Cognito

Eh... it's pretty much the same as Obama's setup, really. Just being honest.

You seem to be full of reasons why we shouldn't make fun of Obama.

It's... curious.

re: #254 Walter L. Newton

I'll jump in on that. Not much. The open air theatre in Civic Center Park was designed in the Greek style, but there is not very much Doric or other Greek column work in town.

I should add, the state capital has Greek styled columns. It was designed as a mini version of the White House.

Can I say "white?"

re: #254 Walter L. Newton

I'll jump in on that. Not much. The open air theatre in Civic Center Park was designed in the Greek style, but there is not very much Doric or other Greek column work in town.

It really doesn't fit in Denver.

re: #259 Walter L. Newton

Racist

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re: #60 alegrias

(Friends, citizens, lend me your ears) is what the real Greek said.

And it looks like a whole bunch of people have been lending him their ears.

re: #195 buzzsawmonkey

Last night's speeches seemed to be all about malaise. I listened to Hillary as long as I could stand it, but in the end I realized, as I switched off, that though she intended to sound inspiring there was nothing, nothing whatever, that was inspirational for the country as a whole.

There was whining, and recrimination, and nay-saying aplenty; there were promises to give all sorts of goodies to all sorts of disadvantaged, or allegedly disadvantaged, or simply unfortunate people. But for me--someone who doesn't make nearly enough money, but is plugging along doing what he can without wanting or expecting a government handout--there was nothing at all. And nothing which offered a unifying vision of the country for all of us, handout-takers and non-handout takers alike.

The Democrats truly believe, I think, that this alternation of negative whining with giveaway promises is "inspiring." That is, perhaps, even more dismal than the litany itself. The question before the country is whether this endless focusing on the donut hole is considered inspiring by the bulk of the American public, at least as measured by Electoral College votes. I profoundly pray that it is not.

Beautifully said, and says exactly what I couldn't say as well in words of my own.

After his work on the Olympic complex in Beijing, did Albert Speer, Jr., go on to this gig?

re: #192 Sharmuta

I think it's very likely they'll move more to the left- they will think like the islamists, that the problem is they're not left enough like the islamists think they're not islamic enough.

Right they will draw the exact wrong conclusion.
IT is like the joke about the scientists removing a frogs legs & commanding him to jump. When the frog does not move, they conclude that leg removal makes a frog deaf

After some DNC dumpster diving, I have unearthed a recording of Obama's campaign song. Hear it here 1st!

It's only a matter of time before they have the Anointed One walking on water.

re: #249 Inquisitive

Okay so Obama wants to be a Greek God...Lets see which one.."The Greek Gods
The Lessor Gods([Link: www.desy.de...] ... Dionysus...
He has a dual nature. On the one hand bringing joy and devine ecstasy. On the other brutal, unthinking, rage.If he choses Dionysus can drive a man mad. No normal fetters can hold him or his followers...He is the only god to have a mortal parent. ...Dionysus wandered the world actively encouraging his cult...Unlike the other gods Dionysus was not only outside his believers but, also within them. "
[Link: www.desy.de...]

But he's more like something from Lovecraft:
Nyarlathotep

And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences – of electricity and psychology — and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. Never before had the screams of nightmare been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid sleep in the small hours, that the shrieks of cities might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying moon as it glimmered on green waters gliding under bridges, and old steeples crumbling against a sickly sky.

re: #261 Athos

Racist

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Why not, we all are, aren't we?

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