Wednesday, August 27, 2008

There Are Columns and Then There Are Columns

Does this:













Look like this:










?

I count four columns in the background of the POTUS's stage. And he was, after all the POTUS when he was making his speech. Not a wannabe.

I don't consider it to be a real big deal that Obama wants the Parthenon



to give his acceptance speech at. After all, journalists were falling all over each other to see who could use the word "historic" more often. Why not let Obama compare himself with the gods? Seems to me, he's just giving more fodder for the McCain campaign, which is doing a great job of using Obama against himself.