True North

...When you've got glitz?  And we're not talking a simple 5 man electrical band here, we're talking Superbowl halftime stuff here. The Pepsi center stage just isn't enough for The ONE, he's gotta step it up to Hollywood epic proportions moving his speech to be embraced by the elements.

Sounds like a lot of over compensation for a lack of substance, kind of like the 60 year old guy getting the red 400 HP convertible. VDH captures the concept here:

I think it's called blind hubris...

Let me get this straight: Obama goes to Europe, does a garish outdoor extravaganza before thousands, returns to find himself dubbed a publicity-seeking celebrity, analogous to Paris Hilton—and abruptly begins a tailspin in the polls. And now in reaction, at the greatest moment of his life, he transfers his acceptance speech to an open-air stadium to handle tens of thousands of frenzied fans, replete with Greek temple (Olympian Zeus or Parthenon?) as the backdrop stage, and outspoken rock stars?

His handlers now seem as inept in the general elections as they were once adept in the primaries. I don't see how you win Ohio or Michigan with Golden Gate Park circa 1967.

There's an old turn of phrase, you can't put lipstick on a pig. The Obama campaign has done a great job of polishing Mr. Obama as much as they can from day one; but to paint the most liberal man in the senate with the least experience of any presidential candidate this cycle from either party as a moderate master of change, just won't sell.

Momentum from events can build for good or bad. Couple what I believe will be seen as a shallow-message, thin veneer, mile-high, hooopla party in Denver Thursday, with 4 fun filled days of radical hate-America protests predicted in humble loveable downtown St. Paul, and I can see a Wellstone Memorial backlash of colossal proportions coming.