Eastwood Rightly Mocks An Empty-Chair Presidency

IBD EDITORIALS ^ | August 31, 2012

[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.

[MitchellC]

“BTW, the rep from Peoria is a young, white Republican in a 40% black dist. Who gets reflected.”

You mean the US House district? IL-18 contains Peoria and is ~7% black. (And has been electing Republicans forever.)

[LS]

I don’t know his district. I heard him speak and I thought he said Peoria was in his district, but I clearly remember him saying his district had a high % of blacks.