August 28th, 2008
The Post and the Temple
This is fairly amusing. John McCain and the NY post are having a hissy fit because Obama’s stage for his speech tonight is decorated using Greek revival architecture. Here is the Post headline:
TEMPLE OF DEM ON MT. O-LYMPUS
GOP MOCKS GRAND STAGE AS GREEK HUBRIS
This would be amusing enough but John McCain’s campaign site has a similar headline:
Proper Attire For The Temple Of Obama (“The Barackopolis”)
We can forgive the editors of the Post who probably don’t get out much, but we should be able to assume that John McCain is familiar with Washington, DC and might notice that Greek revival architecture is fairly common in most of the buildings there. For example, tha Capitol Building where Senator McCain supposedly spends a good deal of his time has a pillar or two as does the White House where McCain wants to start working.
But even ignoring that, you would think the NY Post and Senator McCain would recall the GOP convention in 2004:









