Not getting the Ancient Greece stage

[itsrobert]

Greece, the birthplace of Democracy? Could that be the connection? Anyone know what's this is about? Thinking about it, I hope they aren't making a connection to a Greek play, don't they usually end in tragedy? Maybe the stage is something they got off the shelf for cheap? Maybe Obama is going to come out in a Toga?


Edit: Thanks for the Washington D.C. connection. I'm slow, but now I'm getting it.

[eShirl]

1. look again

you wouldn't see that in ancient Greece

[hexola]

2. I guess you've never been to Washington DC

It supposed to look like the Lincoln Memorial...anniversery of MLK speech.

[itsrobert]

5. I was just there on vacation last month

That may be the connection. That may work.

[Virginia Dare]

8. The media wants you to think it's Greece..

they'll spend all day mocking it.

[tekisui]

3. I think it is simply a backdrop likened to DC.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Federal buildings and monuments not Greece.

[goldcanyonaz]

6. Think MLK 45 year anniversary of I have a Dream, Lincoln Memorial.

[sourmilk]

7. They wore Chitons in Ancient Greece, not Togas.

a) Either Doric or Ionic, but Chitons, noetheless. The Toga was Roman in origin, I believe.

b) Greece may have been the birthplace of Democracy, but it was also the birthplace of Tyranny.

c) Read Thucydides' "The Pelopponesian War." You'll piss yourself identifying similarities to today's talking heads and "statesmen." P.S. It ends badly.

d) If you want to have some REAL fun, look up the word "MIASMA" sometime...

"Fun...for the WHOLE FAMILY."

[WinkyDink]

9. I believe the Greeks wrote comedies, as well. Not to mention philosophy.