August 28, 2008
Posted: 08:50 PM ET
From CNN.com's Ashley Fantz
The stage is set for Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democrats' 2008 presidential nominee.
(CNN) — The Temple of Obama. Barackopolis. Egobama. The descriptions of the transformation of Denver's Invesco Field peppered the Republican blogosphere hours before Barack Obama was set to address a dancing, jubilant crowd of 76,000 supporters on the Democratic National Convention's final night. Designed by Emmy Award-winning entertainment behemoths, the set has spectacular columns, concert lighting, JumboTrons and rising royal blue circular stairs — an arena where warm-up acts such Will.i.am and Sheryl Crow looked right at home. Stevie Wonder led the crowd in a sing-a-long, "Bah-hah-rack-O-bama!" Watch: GOP calling Obama's stage 'Barackopolis' The conservative online magazine The American Thinker remarked that the stage made use of the "basic stagecraft of visual illusion." "He has 300 foreign policy advisers — and for his convention speech, a football stadium equipped with a movie set that looks like a Greek temple," nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh wrote on his blog Thursday. "He claims to be the one that 'we have been waiting for,' and he can lower the seas and promise and deliver universal love simply by showing up." "The polls are overestimating Obama, just as he is overestimating himself," Limbaugh said. Filed under: Barack Obama Democratic National Convention |
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