"Go Hope Yourself"
And it’s OK to let Obama go, as Eastwood said, in what I think will prove to be his most widely quoted line: “When somebody does not do the job, you’ve got to let them go.” The significance of that statement, coupled with the raspy straight-shooting delivery of Dirty Harry, should not be underestimated."..... John Hayward
Eastwood was hilarious and people have to be seriously anal to not have noticed.
Clint Eastwood was great.
The liberal press is just besides themselves. You can’t make fun of obama - you just can’t. He is too serious. He is above satire. He is the One. No one makes fun of the “One.”
Clint did in 15 minutes what SNL was afraid to do for 5 years.
And I foresee it will open the flood gates...
Great point. Clint Eastwood is a pro, still at the top of his form. Nothing he did was accidental.
I was actually thinking—despite the desperate lefty attacks on him—that he kind of pulled some of his punches. He could have hit Obama even harder. But that probably wouldn’t have been as effective with the people he wanted to reach. And no one could call it a hate speech and retain any credibility.
Today, on the networks and "progressive" social sites, subtlety and humor have been deliberately misrepresented by the media "talking heads" and Obama surrogates as senility and signs of deterioration.
Voters are not buying it though, and Seniors may wonder if this is how the "bureaucratic panels" of Obamacare will evaluate their intellect and mental acuity, once they're in charge of health care.
Though he may have been wearing that Bob Newheart/Jimmy Stewart impersonation, and he did it well enough that I kept thinking there was something familiar about it until I finally figured it out, it was clear enough he meant what he was saying.
I can forgive the Bronco Billy days. Every man has to find and break his limitations. Clint Eastwood is a master and that performance last night was just more of why. Some age well; Clint's obviously a bit better at it than most.
Clint is an old pro. He is 82 years old, and at times had you wondering if he was going to lose track, and then...zinger. I enjoyed his interview with Mr. Obama.
I posted this on another thread, but I’ll say it again: the genius of the approach was to spike the guns of the shrill voices on the left screaming about the “anger” and “meanness” of the Republican convention. If he had come out slickly groomed, spouting menacing one-liners in the mode of Dirty Harry or his other tough-guy personae, it would have fed into that narrative. Beautiful, what he did!
"Incidentally, I’m not generally in favor of what Rob Long would call “working blue,” but, if you’re going to do it, doing anatomically impossible sex-act cross-talk with an invisible presidential straight-man in front of the Republican Convention is definitely the way to go."
"Go Hope Yourself"
:sigh: It seems nobody — not even the wizened film critic Roger Ebert — recognized Eastwood’s performance for what it was: a brilliant parody of a classic Jimmy Stewart character, Elwood P. Dowd, from the movie “Harvey.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKECvqSVWPA
It’s a great movie, by the way. Rent it.