Posted on 01/21/2015 5:59:25 PM PST by jazusamo
Valor: When Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood talked to an empty chair at the 2012 GOP convention, many thought he'd lost it. Now more Americans are watching his story of hero Chris Kyle than saw the State of the Union.
There was a sense of irony in President Obama praising himself for a "persistent, steady resolve" in fighting an Islamic terrorism he refuses to call by name.
He delivered his State of the Union speech just as the U.S. military was moving the assault ships Iwo Jima and Fort McHenry into the Red Sea to evacuate American personnel, if necessary, from another of his success stories imploding into chaos.
Yemen is on the verge of following Libya's slide into a failed state dominated by Islamic radicals. The Islamic State that Obama silently watched grow remains in control of wide swaths of Syrian territory where many red lines were drawn in crayon.
It's also in control of Iraqi towns where Americans expended great blood and treasure before he threw their sacrifice away with a precipitate withdrawal.
Rather than a persistent, steady resolve, Americans see a callous cluelessness. After four Americans were murdered in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, they saw their commander in chief fly to Las Vegas for a fundraiser. Rather than march with a world protesting the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, they saw their president stay home to meet and greet the San Antonio Spurs.
Obama touts success where there are no successes, which is perhaps one of the reasons the ratings for his State of the Union addresses have steadily declined and why his policies, which he said were on the ballot in November, were soundly rejected by voters.
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For all his film success, I’d say that the way things are going in 5 and especially 10 years The Empty Chair moment will be Eastwood’s very most memorable performance.
They’ll say he was tough, but clairvoyant, too.
I’d watch Barney over the fool who has never had a proper job until he got in the white house.
Yeah, he’s no dummy.
No doubt that you’re right.
It was especially enjoyable knowing that the guy I was watching from 1980 is at the height of fame and fortune 35 years later.
Kudos to Mssr. Eastwood, himself a milvet, but also, isn’t it strange how a few words from a crazy Communist-hating U.S. general come back to bite the liberals, again and again?
ROFLMAO! That is Fillarious!
Amen...I’ve always been an Eastwood fan and you’re right on!
The empty chair remains a brilliant metaphor and one that Obama appears destined to perpetually validate.
The empty chair was brilliant. I thought so then and I still do. American Sniper is also brilliant. And I saw it.
CHRIS KYLE AMERICAN SNIPER PING
The rest of us knew exactly what his point was.
Amen. And I thought it was hilarious. Doesn't anybody appreciate dry sarcasm anymore?
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