Friday, November 27, 2009

Opinion

Robert Schlesinger

Obama's Stage is No Lincoln Memorial, Mini-Parthenon, or Greek Temple

August 28, 2008 06:25 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

DENVER—You'll see soon enough but the stage tonight looks nothing like a Greek temple, the Lincoln Memorial or a Spinal Tap-esque mini Parthenon. It looks like nothing more or less than a generic Washington, White House-esque building.

Score another for the GOP spin machine.

Tags: presidential election 2008 | speeches | Barack Obama | Democratic National Convention

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Special oil painting of President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial

Jan. 18th, 2009

PRESS RELEASE:

“CALIFORNIAN ARTIST'S PAINTING OF PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL”

Ron Keas was invited by Shepard Fairey to display his original oil paintings of Barrack Obama at the Manifest Hope Gallery in Denver during the recent Democratic Convention. Ron's first painting was of President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial. It is titled, "Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow." In the background is Lincoln's statue, being saluted by a child, with President Obama standing proudly in the foreground. In the painting, Lincoln's statue represents Yesterday, President Obama represents Today, and the child represents Tomorrow. As a result of the Gallery presentation, his paintings were noticed by the right people, and Ron’s charming original oil portrait of the Obama family was selected by the publishers of a collector calendar to be featured as the illustration for the month of August, which happens to be President Obama’s birthday month, (Aug; 4th) This calendar will be for sale at the Inauguration Ceremony. To date, Ron has completed 12 Barack Obama paintings and they can all be seen on his website at http://www.keasart.com.

He is also offering limited edition prints of all the paintings. His newest painting is scheduled to be unveiled today on his website. It is titled, "The Beginning" It shows Barack as a baby on a Hawaiian beach, discovering a sandcastle of the White House.

Ron Keas

Keas Gallery

Lucerne, CA

PO Box 474

http://www.keasart.com

phone 707-274-8786

how bout try number 3

oh, vreek architecture.

Illiterate

Lorraine,

don't be so quick to accuse others of being stupid until your own comments are more literate. At least proof read your comments so you don't embarrass yourself. Please don't take this the wrong way but you sound like a moron.

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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