Clint Eastwood’s Speech At The Republican National Convention

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, what’s a movie tradesman doing out here? You know they are all left wingers out there, left of Lenin. At least that is what people think. That is not really the case. There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

So - but they are there, believe me, they are there. I just think, in fact, some of them around town, I saw Jon Voight, a lot of people around.

Jon’s here, an academy award winner. A terrific guy. These people are all like-minded, like all of us.

So I - so I’ve got Mr. Obama sitting here. And he’s - I was going to ask him a couple of questions. But - you know about - I remember three and a half years ago, when Mr. Obama won the election. And though I was not a big supporter, I was watching that night when he was having that thing and they were talking about hope and change and they were talking about, yes we can, and it was dark outdoors, and it was nice, and people were lighting candles. They were saying, I just thought, this was great. Everybody is trying, Oprah was crying.

I was even crying. And then finally - and I haven’t cried that hard since I found out that there is 23 million unemployed people in this country.

Now that is something to cry for because that is a disgrace, a national disgrace, and we haven’t done enough, obviously - this administration hasn’t done enough to cure that. Whenever interest they have is not strong enough, and I think possibly now it may be time for somebody else to come along and solve the problem.

So, Mr. President, how do you handle promises that you have made when you were running for election, and how do you handle them?

I mean, what do you say to people? Do you just - you know - I know - people were wondering - you don’t - handle that OK. Well, I know even people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn’t close Gitmo. And I thought, well closing Gitmo - why close that, we spent so much money on it. But, I thought maybe as an excuse - what do you mean shut up?

OK, I thought maybe it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City.

I’ve got to to hand it to you. I have to give credit where credit is due. You did finally overrule that finally. And that’s - now we are moving onward. I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean - you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it - they did there for 10 years.

But we did it, and it is something to be thought about, and I think that, when we get to maybe - I think you’ve mentioned something about having a target date for bringing everybody home. You gave that target date, and I think Mr. Romney asked the only sensible question, you know, he says, “Why are you giving the date out now? Why don’t you just bring them home tomorrow morning?”

So anyway, we’re going to have - we’re going to have to have a little chat about that. And then, I just wondered, all these promises - I wondered about when the - what do you want me to tell Romney? I can’t tell him to do that. I can’t tell him to do that to himself.

But I just think that there is so much to be done, and I think that Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are two guys that can come along. See, I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to the president, anyway.

I think attorneys are so busy - you know they’re always taught to argue everything, and always weight everything - weigh both sides...

I think attorneys are so busy - you know they’re always taught to argue everything, always weigh everything, weigh both sides.

They are always devil’s advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that. You know all that stuff. But, I think it is maybe time - what do you think - for maybe a businessman. How about that?

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane.

Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country.

We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

And - so - they are just going to come around and beg for votes every few years. It is the same old deal. But I just think it is important that you realize , that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Okay, just remember that. And I’m speaking out for everybody out there. It doesn’t hurt, we don’t have to be

We don’t have to be - what I’m saying, we do not have to be metal (ph) masochists and vote for somebody that we don’t really even want in office just because they seem to be nice guys or maybe not so nice guys, if you look at some of the recent ads going out there, I don’t know.

August 31, 2012

The Greatest Piece of Performance Art in American Political History

Ed Timperlake

Americans have a firm appreciation for sports metaphors. So if one looks at our political process to select the President as the “Super Bowl” then it could be implied that the two conventions are the first and second quarters respectively.

The second half, with both conventions gaveled to a close, will show how each competing team R and D adjusts to address what plays happened in the first half. The Republican’s just had a spectacular first quarter, in my opinion, their best Convention ever, and it is soon time for the Ds to run their game plan.

However, something uniquely American happened during the Republican convention — a new, never seen before play was run. An iconic and extremely successful artist created an original, entirely unique moments in our political history. Clint Eastwood gave one of the greatest pieces of performance art ever seen.

Clint Eastwood knew exactly what he was doing — as both an actor AND director he knows full well how to deliver a message that resonates. As a simple, practical matter his speech will be discussed for a very very long time and that will bring positive focus back to a very successful GOP convention again and again.

But Clint’s true artistic genius was provoking the ready, fire, aim, liberal Obama Administration supporters, and was reflective of how the “take him down at all costs” pack journalism thinks. It was pathetic when they focused on his age as their attack line. So go ahead you fools insult the elderly, use getting old as a weapon to discredit an extremely powerful message done with fantastic humor. That will turn out to be very, very stupid media attack line in the run up to the election. Not to mention, how off the mark it is because Clint Eastwood was out-thinking everyone and was intellectually miles ahead of all of you.

It gets better. In this age of ubiquitous social media — especially YouTube — every observation and attack segment that Clint Eastwood articulated will be proliferated nationwide by his countless fans. His performance was, at times, filled with nuance and droll asides, but always combined with the underlying principle a direct no BS statement of what it means to be an American citizen.
Going into their Convention and the second half there is nothing the Obama Administration can do about it. As a successful actor and director Clint Eastwood knows how to make a point and he made a politically historic point using his artistic gifts.

Finally, President Obama and his wife claimed to not be watching the RNC—actually their best PR strategy. Yet, according to the New York Post, the President of the United States just engaged against a surrogate.

Our current President AKA “Mr Cool” was provoked enough to blow-up his own strategy and make his original position a lie. Not a bad nights performance all around Mr Eastwood!!

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