DENVER - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.

The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays.

Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington's Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party's nomination for president.

He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.

The show should provide a striking image for the millions of Americans watching on television as Obama delivers a speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.

Politicians in past elections have typically spoken from the convention site itself, but the Obama campaign liked the idea of having their man speak to a larger, stadium-sized crowd not far from where the Democratic National Convention is being held, at the Denver pro basketball arena.
Obama was taking a page from the campaign book of John Kennedy in 1960 when the future president delivered his acceptance speech to 80,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Once Obama speaks, confetti will rain down on him and fireworks will be fired off from locations around the stadium wall.
Democratic convention organizers said the theme for the evening is "Change We Can Believe In," which has been a consistent message of Obama's presidential campaign.
Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson will sing the national anthem that night.
Who is Barack Hussein Obama?
The man who sat under a church for 20 years. Under a hatemonger by the name of preacher Jeremiah Wright, who spouts hatred of whites, and spouts "GD America" from the pulpit no less! The man who accepted this message by sitting in that pew for 20 years.
The man whose mentor in high school was Frank Marshall Davis, a communist, well known to all. Where Obama cloned his socialist, communist ideas to impose upon Americans.
The man who obtained his home by frauding the taxpayers out of 14 millions dollars, with the help of felon Rezko. You see, he's used to taking taxpayer money. It would be a cinch for him. He could sleep at night.
The man who launched his political career in the home of Bill Ayers, a home grown terrorist, that bombed our own Capitol and our Pentagon, and whose organization killed our own policeman. And to this day Bill Ayers is NOT REPENTENT, and says he wish he had done more. Obama still is friends with this home-grown terrorist, who wishes he had done more.

The man who will raise taxes on virtually everyone. And those who squeak by, will be paying doubling gas and food prices with their minute windfall, so it will be moot.

Obama whose neutrality stance will put the US in a precarious and defensive postion, calling for a draft.

Obama says that Iran is just a little country. It's not dangerous.

Obama who says he will meet with them with no preconditions.
Obama who as a senator sent $50 billion dollars of our taxpayer money to Africa.
Obama who touts change. You mean change the constitution.
Obama's arrogance, stupidity, socialism, lies have lost this election for him. And I thank God for that.