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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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She wishes!
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It worked too.
Akin dropped off the media map as soon as he moved back into the lead. The leftist media realized that they were overplaying their hand, turning Akin into a folk hero and causing pissed-off voters to rally behind him.
I agree that the Eastwood speech (actually comedy bit) was brilliant. It ridiculed Obama without being nasty or over-the-top. The empty chair was symbolic of the Obama presidency. Empty chair. Empty promises. Empty slogans.
This Eastwood speech has gone viral on the Internet. On YouTube, there are multiple videos of it that have already garnered hundreds of thousands of views. It will be in the millions by the end of the weekend.
No doubt the thin-skinned Obama and his crowd are going to attempt to "get back" at Romney at the DNC and you can bet that their response will be heavy-handed, petty and ugly. I'm looking forward to it.
As you pointed out, Obama is already running scared. Now he's following Romney into Louisiana and trying to claim it was his idea first. So he's petty and childish already.
A week ago, many Democrats were chortling about how the hurricane was going to embarrass the Republicans and ruin their convention. It appears that the tables have been turned.
There were points that I thought he was weak and not what he once would have been. He pulled it off though. He made the point that a change has to be made
Just watched the whole speech again on youtube. It really is worth watching more than just the live version most of us saw. So many gems he delivered in only 11 minutes.
God Bless you Clint. You are a great American.
FR needs a like button. You hit the nail on the head
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Amazing that the wizened old film critic didn’t even recognize a brilliant parody of a classic film character, Elwood P. Dowd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKECvqSVWPA
Sad and pathetic, Ebert. Sad and pathetic.
Clint Eastwood had me laughing.....a welcome change from a smorgasbord of more serious and wonky and tear-jerking speeches. Clint never uttered the F-word, he deftly implied it and it was very funny and a good parody on Biden’s hot mike comment.
No......, too obvious, too explicit, too unpolished attack. Not good to get independents. The chair was perfect.
Dirty Harry obviously got under the skin of the radical socialist from Chicago...der leader twitted within 5 minutes!
Clint was brilliant! Obama’s palace guards (AKA the MSM) just can’t handle their messiah being mocked like that. Loved every second of it.
They will do everything they can to drag his pathetic carcass across the finish line.
“Obviously, Ebert is being critical of Clint’s age. Does Ebert deserves equal discriminator treatment?”
Ageism is OK if you’re an old white guy.
I know Clint, and he is as sharp as a samurai sword. He flattened Obama. Not only turned him into an empty chair, but a crude, foul-mouthed one at that. Great stuff.
This election--the house senate, presidency--- is NOT about an "issue". Really, I'm surprised you don't get that. It's about an IDEA of "Americanness" vs (for want of a better term) "otherness."Take all the issues and all the individual Dems--Reid, Pelosi, McCaskill---and they are ALL epitomized and wrapped up in Obama and his anti-Americanness.
The first, and most critical STRATEGIC step in all this is what any military man knows: identify, fix, and (conceptually) locate your enemy.
Almost every speech during the convention (except maybe Bush's useless education speech) identified and defined Obama and the IDEA of an Obama America vs, true Americanism,
But it also is absolutely essential to demythologize Obama and to reassure millions of people who were guilt ridden that he isn't a "black" man, just a very bad president. Again, this is STRATEGIC in isolating the enemy conceptually through ridicule and it is right out of Alinsky's STRATEGIC play book of "Rules for "Radicals." (Alinsky makes clear he deals with strategy, not tactics).
Not 10% of the voters know who Reid or Pelosi are, and likely more than half have NEVER heard of any $710 Medicare reduction by Obama nor is it something you can get across easily. But Romney brilliantly addressed it by saying that Obama wanted to "lower the oceans" while he just wants to "help you and your family." So now, everyone goes back to Clint's empty chair and the STRATEGIC image is again reinforced. This guy isn't an American that cares about US, but an alien with alien and delusional ideas. "Oh, I shouldn't think that of a BLACK president. Oh, wait he really isn't acting like a president . . . He's an empty chair. I can throw him out after all and put in a real American."
Thank you! Clint Eastwood has been an actor for a very very long time. I don't think any actor would feel real comfortable going in front of a huge audience live and on television and just winging it. It was a prepared a scripted skit played just right to not appear to be prepared a scripted. In other words, a great performance by a great actor.
I disagree. Clint made it personal and effective. He played both sides, saying Obama told him to f himself and telling the (TV/internet) audience that we shouldn't vote for someone because we think he's a nice guy. There are far too many clueless "independents" who are willing to give Obama "another chance".
In any case Clint targeted the socialist elites when he said "we own this country".
By and large, the posters at http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=218666.0 didn't.
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