Bush's 2004 temple

[ProSense]

Barack Obama's appearance in Denver won't be the first convention speech framed by Greek columns.

Republicans who are mocking Obama's appearance haven't mentioned it, but George W. Bush accepted his own nomination in 2004 on a set with a similar neoclassical theme, with columns rising on either side of him, as the pictures above and below show.

Indeed, the Bush set and the Obama sets currently look strikingly similar, with the podium set well in front of the columns, and connected by a path.

The attachment to kitsch, particularly at political conventions, is clearly bipartisan. (There are also a couple of columns in America, as Matthew Yglesias notes.)



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Repeat: The RW are asshole, the RW are assholes...

[kwenu]

1. The architecture of Washington D.C. is Greek Revivalist. This is a non-story story.

And yes, the RW are asshats that will stoop to any level to make an attack. Hypocrisy means nothing to them.

[Neshanic]

2. Uh, It's their style to be authoritarian/fuck you designs. They suceeded.

The four columns and the two smaller are hardly in comparison to what is being built now. ESPECIALLY the strange mixing of the fantastic set at the convention and the neo-classical screw up that presumes too much.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Where did democracy start?

[KittyWampus]

3. that's more like an Aztec pyramid with altar on top for the blood-sacrifice

[Emit]

7. cryingshame, you took the words right out of my mouth

my gawd! Look at that thing.

[MarjorieG]

4. Remember the cross on the lecturn. Talk about messiah and deity.

[jefferson_dem]

8. Ergo...

[VolcanoJen]

9. Exactly!! And nary a peep from our Awesome Liberal Media.

I do recall some pretty funny DU threads about The Holy and Beatified Lectern back in 2004, though. ;-)

[emulatorloo]

6. If anything the set suggests President Obama in DC on inauguration day. Total RNC sillyness n/t