Clint Eastwood Addresses The 2012 GOP Convention (VIDEO)

RealClearPolitics ^ | August 30, 2012 | RealClearPolitics

[i88schwartz]

Actor and director Clint Eastwood addresses the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

[muawiyah]

You're part of a major crowd ~ my critics! Virtually none of them can spell having exhausted themselves running down hill with their hair on fire.

Well, gotta' go, things to do~meaningful things ~ things you can never understand.

[muawiyah]

Yes ~ that's the way it's done. There really is no flexibile standard where you can kill just 2 babies and you're OK, but if you do 3 then you're bad.

It's more of an on/off switch.

Sorry, I don't need to justify my position, but you will ultimately need to justify yours.

[EnquiringMind]

The vast majority of the media coverage will be on Eastwood, not Romney’s speech.

Good, let them go for it. The more they mock Eastwood, the more Independent voters will hear that Eastwood is on Romney's side.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Your arrogance and your pride have over come your ability to even comprehend what you are reading. What you said was mean, not on point, had nothing to do with anything I said, but it made your self righteous pride swell. Get a concordance and look up “pride.” Your picture might be there.

[muawiyah]

I do believe you are trying to defend baby killing.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“I waited all evening to see Clint and it was well worth the wait. I enjoyed every word of his speech. What a guy!”

Me too!!! I too waited all evening to hear Clint’s speech.

After that, I rolled over and went to sleep. I knew that after his great speech it would be followed by a bunch of crap, which it was.

[C. Edmund Wright]

You have now officially and directly admitted to what I suspected: accusing me of baby killing. Shame shame shame on you. No wonder your way of fighting this fight is a guaranteed loser.

[muawiyah]

Defending and doing are different in kind but not in moral standing. So, you’re among friends, how often do you engage in either practice on a weekly basis?

[C. Edmund Wright]

I have not defended nor participated, but now I remember you now.

You are the economic liberal, retired postal worker, who all of us are still supporting with our tax money while you drifted through your “career” (cough cough) and allowed us to support you then too. I would not expect you to understand or even support liberty or freedom because you are supported by the government enslaving those of us with real jobs. It is easy for you to ignore issues of freedom and limited government because you are enriched by unlimited government. Good day Cliff Klavan.

[JoeProBono]

[muawiyah]

No, you don't remember me at all, but you do reveal your enormous reservoir of ignorance of the Postal Service. It's constitutionally identified as a federal function and it is paid for with postage and fees, not your taxes!

Employee retirements are paid for from employee salaries and payments made by USPS directly to a retirement system, plus a major part of their retirements are in the form of Thrift Savings Accounts which are, otherwise, identical to 401(k) accounts used widely in the private sector.

You are the typical mail delivery customer ~ pays nothing whatsoever for the service yets complains the employees are ripping him off.

BTW, you wouldn't enjoy my economic system ~ spartan ~ no federal personal income tax at all but everyone gets tapped on their annual profit ~ and DOD goes from a consumer agency to a producer agency by collecting tribute from foreign nations and international merchants who we protect. No department of education, no labor department, no commerce department (as it is now understood) and if you plant fence row to fence row USDA leaves you alone ~

[Loud Mime]

Sarah Palin could not have given the same speech; think about the jokes for a minute.....

The crowd that ridicules Clint for having an Alzheimer moment are showing a poor degree of callousness. Too many people have taken the sucker bait and made horrible comments. Maybe it was a tactical decision by the repubs to put Clint on the stage, maybe not. But we have what we have.

We all should be lucky enough to live as long as Clint.

[edpc]

I realize there was a message. Problem is, it was constantly meandering and sometimes incoherent. Perhaps it was because it did not meet my expectations.

I was prepared for something more like his "Halftime In America" commercial or maybe a critique of Obama similar to Zell Miller's scathing review of Kerry in 2004.

It just seemed odd to me. The speech was good in the same way Andy Kaufman was a comedic genius. It's highly subjective.

[angelrod]

I didn’t get to see the speech last night. I DVR’d it and just finish watching it but I read all the review before I watched it. It was a little quirky but overall funny and interesting. I didn’t see what all the criticism was about. My wife and I enjoyed it!

[C. Edmund Wright]

Oh right, the USPS is given a monopoly, prime real estate locations, and billions each year to shore up their operating deficit: SEE: "President Obama's proposed 2012 budget doesn't say anything about raising stamp prices, ending Saturday mail deliveries or closing post offices, but it tries to remedy the U.S. Postal Service's perilous financial condition by recommending about $11 billion in relief. With mail volume and revenue plummeting, the Postal Service is on course to run a $7 billion deficit in the fiscal year that ends in September and, in the process, to run out of cash as it exhausts its line of credit with the U.S. Treasury. The losses stem in part from hefty personnel costs not borne by other federal agencies. One is a requirement, imposed by a 2006 law, that it set aside money each year to cover the costs of future health benefits for its retired workers. In the Obama administration's first substantive attempt to address the Postal Service's fiscal woes, the budget would allow the agency to pay $4 billion less toward future retiree health benefits than otherwise required. The mail agency would have to pay about $1.5 billion of those costs in fiscal 2012 and make up the difference in later years. Highlights? Postal service runs a deficit for retirement costs, and that deficit is paid by the tax payer. Its a shell game, a government agency, with a given monopoly, and they still lose tons of money.

[nutmeg]

WTH? Extreme Barf Alert! I went to your Breitbart link, and there was a political ad for Obama playing in the background with Bill Clinton talking.

Whaaaa? Obama-Clintoon on Brietbart?? I went back to that link... the only video that started playing for me was Clint Eastwood's speech from last night...

[Bigg Red]

Really, the unmistakable voice of Clinton The Rapist is what I was hearing when I went to the link. Maybe it was some sort of hacking going on at that moment....

[Servant of the Cross]

It's constitutionally identified as a federal function and it is paid for with postage and fees, not your taxes! ...muawiyah

... the Postal Service is on course to run a $7 billion deficit in the fiscal year that ends in September ... C.Edmund

Highlights? Postal service runs a deficit for retirement costs, and that deficit is paid by the tax payer. Its a shell game, a government agency, with a given monopoly, and they still lose tons of money. ... C. Edmund

Checkmate.

Well, we absolutely can conclude that muawiyah is NOT an accountant.

A federal teat bureaucrat ala Cliff Claven? Perhaps. But with a screename like Muawiyah: the first Caliph of the Umayyad Dynasty, it is possible that he is a liberal muslim troll impersonating Cliff Claven!

Question: Why did the directors of Men In Black pick a postal worker for the job that K takes we he leaves MIB? Hmmm. Inquiring minds would like to know.

[factmart]

Do you think that people would be goggling Romney's speech today if clint didn't speak. No

No, but they are goggling Clint Eastwood today and the former obama’ supporting now know that they do not have to vote zero.

[Dysart]

I just noticed that the chair was, in fact, an empty highchair.