Obama has a dream

Martin Luther King, Jr. chose the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to deliver his audacious message of hope, "I Have a Dream," August 28, 1963, exactly 45 years ago tomorrow, when the nation's first major-party black presidential candidate will give his acceptance speech from the podium of a set designer's mini-version of the Great Emancipator's memorial set in a football field.

The Republican Party's Audacity Watch — "a website keeping track of Barack Obama's audacious behavior" — is calling it the "Temple of Obama," and the blogosphere was abubble all day with conjecture about the symbolism behind the white-columned stage set where the Democrats' presumptive will deliver his acceptance speech tomorrow night at the home of the Denver Broncos, Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium. Rumors started with this ABC/Reuters report headlined on the Drudge Report:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple …

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

"When I finally saw the picture, it seemed to me that it looks like the Lincoln Memorial, a classic Greek Doric design," wrote Ann Althouse commenter mcg:

Fine. Like I said, can we get him to skip the presidency if we build him a memorial now?

We like the way mcg's mind works, but we're guessing it's not a memorial per se but a particular event that took place exactly 45 years ago tomorrow on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial whose karma Obama's after, Martin Luther King Jr's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.

As we blogged yesterday, "Where is the humility"?

Comments

[goomp]

Those who would change our country from "the land of the free and the home of the brave" to a land of government control and servitude have no need for humility. Change us back to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.

[Carol Ward]

Sissy

Like Charles Krauthammer, I too was wondering, "What were they thinking?" I kept thinking that the Obamessiah and his handlers can't be THAT obtuse. But you put it together -- he is trying to channel the MLK mojo. It is too priceless that the acceptance speech is on the "I Have a Dream" speech anniversary. No wonder he thinks he is annointed.

[Gayle Miller]

The ObamaMessiah is politically tone deaf in many respects.

More troubling than the hubris and egocentric posturing represented by this venue for his acceptance speech tonight is the increasingly thuggish behavior of the Obama campaign and DNC thugs in respect to reporters. In addition, the DNC and Obama campaign are resorting to threatening and bullying tactics to try to prevent the airing of a completely factual television commercial that paints him in an unattractive light. Given that this behavior is coming from a man who also advocates a national police force, if you aren't frightened now, you haven't been paying attention!