Invesco Turned Nuremberg-Style Rally

Cable news and the Net are buzzing and twittering about Barack Obama's big speech tonight at Invesco Field. The Drudge Report solemnly proclaims "Speech of a lifetime."

Voters watching the DNC saga this week, roughly 10 percent of tube watchers, should double or triple for tonight's marquee performance. Obama's folks feel the tingle of a 15% temporary convention bounce coming.

CNN has taken to calling the physical staging of the speech the Barack-Opolis because the multiple Greek columns that will serve as the backdrop to the podium - which will literally rise from the floor - where Obama will deliver his oracle.

This is high-stakes political drama; even for a demigod like Barack.

It's a speech. It's a political convention. And if its anywhere near the themeless bore as the rest of DNC's Denver debacle it will be unmemorable.

Obama, himself, took to the stage at the end of Joe Biden's night (he simply couldn't keep himself out of the spotlight) and provided the assembled masses their talking points. The reason they are moving to the big field is to open the convention up, to give more people an opportunity to participate.

Simply put, that's bull dung.

The decision to change venue to Invesco Field was made, back in June, when the Obama folks felt the strength of their campaign in the size of the crowds it could amass. This was a no-brainer. A convention hall has about 55,000 people in it and for every person inside the hall, there are 4 to 5 others in town as party activists for the real fun.

They can actually fill a stadium of 100,000 people at a political convention - either party.

This was before their political opponents turned the vacuous celebrity stature of Obama into a crippling liability.

Obama's team, which have drunk his kool-aid and are out-of-touch with the average American family have not altered their plans; modesty apparently in short supply on Chicago's Gold Coast.

Obama will stride on stage tonight, amidst 70,000+ screaming Democrat activists. Flanked by Greek columns, from a teleprompter he'll deliver the oracle of the ages which will conclude with confetti cannons and fireworks.

Who knew the change we need resembled a Nuremberg rally?

Invesco Field is not a metaphor for openness or inclusiveness; rather a megalomaniac ego in the messianic tradition of a passion play or something worse. Let's hope they forget the torch-light parades.

The imagery, the throngs of mesmerized group-thinkers, the celebrity siren songs sprinkled through the mind-numbing speeches will be gazed down upon by the high-priestess of American pop culture - Oprah Winfrey.

Thrown-in for good measure, is the high priest of Earth Day himself - Al Gore. The man whose personal carbon foot-print is larger than nearly all of the 70,000 assembled activists combined. Tonight, he is tasked with whipping the crowd into a fevered pitch. He'll prepare the way...for the One...for that person who is History...for Barack Obama.

Regardless of the pundits take - like the MSNBC crew who have spent the week as Obama pimps - they will all be wrong.

Assuming the teleprompter doesn't fail, Obama will deliver a fine sound speech.

We know this.

But there will be no meaning in it, nothing but platitudes and empty words. No solutions, just slogans.

The pageantry of tonight's Nuremberg-like rally counter programs his vacuous rhetoric. Solemnity and sagacity come from the quiet words of wisdom exchanged at Independence Hall, the makeshift stage at a cemetery in Gettysburg or the serenity of the Oval Office.

The immodesty and narcissistic nature of the real message emanating from Invesco Field may be missed by those wagging their tongues on TV tonight, but it won't be lost on the heartland viewers.