Memo To Barry: Ditch The Greek Columns

Memo To Barry: Ditch The Greek Columns

August 27th, 2008
By SHAUN MULLEN, TMV Columnist

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PLEASE! BUT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN STAYS, OKAY?

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ChrisWWW 2 months ago 1 point
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Memo to Shaun:
All of the significant buildings in Washington D.C. (the White House, the Supreme Court building and the Capitol Building) have Greco-Roman columns as major visible parts of their architecture.

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Elyas 2 months ago 1 point
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It looks like he's just going for imagery from Washington's Capitol or the White House (TMV's masthead features similar Greek columns). I don't understand how Koppelman associates it with Ancient Greece and even Trinity Broadcasting, but misses that more obvious connection.

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shaun 2 months ago 1 point
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(Sound of throat clearing)

The props are ready made for Republican ridicule. The whole god, messiah thingie, no?

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ChrisWWW 2 months ago 1 point
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The props are ready made for Republican ridicule. The whole god, messiah thingie, no?

I understood your point. I just think that Democrats can't lead their entire political lives in quaking fear of the Big Bad Republicans.

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DLS 2 months ago 0 points
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1. Minor point: Elitism! That's the ivory tower image -- do they walk around wearing togas? (And Chris -- do the Dems want any assocation with Washington, really? Few will obediently look at Obama and the columns and say, "Lincoln, JFK, Martin Luther King, Obama.")

2. Major point: Nuremberg Rally revisited. At least Obama didn't also include Albert Speer's "Cathedral of Light" technique using columns of light, which also come to mind.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/images/p...

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/zepplichtdom36.jpg

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/zepplichtdom36dr...

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/zepplichtdom1937...

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/zepplichtdom38.jpg

Shaun is right.

Spend the money on fireworks after the speech instead (if Obama is confident).

(Not on a special visit by Madonna and her "Get Stupid" song and video.)

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Kathryn 2 months ago 1 point
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O/T but interesting-Hillary is releasing her delegates.

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ChrisWWW 2 months ago 1 point
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And Chris -- do the Dems want any assocation with Washington, really?

Aren't the presidential candidates suppose to look, well... ummm... presidential?

And according to this dude the column controversy may be all smoke and no fire anyways... http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/27/15948/9...

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janinedm 2 months ago 1 point
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What wouldn't have been? Late last week, a photo of the convention center showing an silhouette of Colorado's mountains had the Right making manger/Bethlehem jokes (http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2008/08/24/ca...) The only difference here is that some, forgetting what D.C. looks like, have decided to swallow the Right's meme wholesale. Lame.

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DLS 2 months ago -1 points
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Presidential, no. Pretentious is more like it. Obama may be getting cocky. Oops.

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DLS 2 months ago 0 points
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Shaun -- it's likely aimed at more than one theme at once of his campaign, but is almost certainly "anniversary-related."

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilright...

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ChrisWWW 2 months ago 1 point
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