Posted on 08/31/2012 4:23:14 PM PDT by raptor22
Tampa 2012: In remarks to a chair as vacant as the one in the Oval Office, a Hollywood icon reminds us that the president is a failed employee of the people and it's time to let him go.
As performance shtick, it may not have come off perfectly. But judging from the reaction from those "left of Lenin," as 82-year-old Hollywood legend described it during a sort of surprise appearance at the Republican National Convention Thursday, it skewered our absentee president perfectly.
"Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic," tweeted "left of Lenin" film critic Roger Ebert as Eastwood ad-libbed Thursday night to an audience of millions and one empty chair. "He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him."
Eastwood's point, though delivered haltingly, was that President Obama is unworthy of the great nation he disparages and apologizes for incessantly, and that our failed employee should be given his walking papers.
Ebert and others miss the point that it is what Obama has done to us that is sad and pathetic.
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I was 10 and saw it at a drive in movie with my family. :D
I still think there are lots and lots of people who have heard of it but never seen it.
ROFL!
Yup!
(I had to read the transcript to be able to understand what I was hearing at times)
it worked!
You old coot!
Two weeks ago, while dining out, I saw a teeage girl with a t-shirt that must have been produced for the cast members of Harvey, put on by a high school.
Really enjoyed Eastwood!
Yes I am! :D
BTW I talked to several people today who are in their 40’s had heard of Harvey but never had seen it and had no idea that it was about a 6 foot tall invisible rabbit.
They had not seen Clint Eastwood at the convention either but were anxious to see both.
HA, HA, HA!
My pissy attitude is beginning to lift. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Empty suit ping, ditto!
I bet Obama's ego is pegging big time...he can't stand to be laughed at.
I'd think he would be over that by now....oh, I forgot - Only Obama tells the folksy, jokey stories like "Cousin Pookie," which we all know is ROFLMAO to the 19th degree...NOT! Obama: What a dope!
“Alinsky, you magnificent bastard, we read your book.”
Don't remember - was Eastwood on teleprompter. I think he wasn't.
Either way, I loved it and glad I DWR'd it to watch again!
Nice chair!
What you said!!!
Maybe they can get Al Franken to "get back at Romney" or use the time like a roast of Romney.
Whatever they do, it will be lame and there might even have a "costume malfunction." I'd stay up late to see that...precious little of the rest.
Don't you love turning tables on the libs/communists/marxists/socialists, et al?
#EmptyChairDay is on Twitter...... HAHAHA...
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