Clint Eastwood Addresses The 2012 GOP Convention (VIDEO)

RealClearPolitics ^ | August 30, 2012 | RealClearPolitics

[i88schwartz]

Actor and director Clint Eastwood addresses the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

[C. Edmund Wright]

A federal teat bureaucrat ala Cliff Claven?

BINGO! I really get tired of those folks cozily tucked inside a government job and/or retirement and preaching to the rest of us that we should forget all issues of liberty, economy, taxes, and stress only the "moral" stuff. It's like a preacher who rails against business greed and then says "pass the plate."

[Jim from C-Town]

I stand corrected. Thank you.

Do you know if he ever practiced law? I believe that O’Bumbler never really practiced law much either, just cronyism.

[muawiyah]

Pay your own retirement Ed baybee ~ and in your next life try to finish college. It’s not terribly difficult. Then, you too can make the big bucks Eh.

[muawiyah]

Boy are you guys cockeyed. USPS doesn't run a deficit ~ Congress does. To make up for that deficit they decided to tap the users of the mails $5.3 billion per year for 10 years for what they called 'future employee medical insurance costs' ~ now that future was 75 years IN THE FUTURE, not a postal worker alive today will ever benefit from it.

In addition to that piece of hokum, USPS is, according to the most reliable accounting, about $78 billion OVERPAID for employee retirements, ~ you've been living a life of LOW TAXES while sitting there playing with my retirement ~ bunch of free riders if I ever saw them ~

[patriotspride]

Maybe it was a tactical decision by the repubs to put Clint on the stage, maybe not

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An in your face “ we will not take your crap anymore”.

Delivered with the deadliest touch. Humor.

[ansel12]

We are pretty sure that if he practiced law that it wasn’t for long, (not as a full time job), what we don’t know, is if he ever dabbled, or used his license on occasion.

[muawiyah]

He had been an elected official ~ for real! It's not like the convention organizers just grabbed some celebrity to come up and say a few words ~ even though it was pretty close. Clint was just a mayor ~ true enough a mayor in California so maybe that's kind of rare when you get over in the shore communities.

His was the only critical material that accused Obama of having been an incompetent boob ~ so some of his applause came from the red meat aspects of his singular appearance.

Does anyone imagine Romney understood any of that?

[onona]

meh, not bad.

[onona]

you had me at goggle...........

[TXBlair]

Exactly! He is an American icon. He is Clint-freaking-Eastwood, for goodness’ sake. He needs the approval of NO ONE. He is at an age and position in his life and career that affords him complete freedom to say, do, and offend whomever/whatever he chooses. He has no worries of being blacklisted by the nitwits in Hollywood; he has no need of them, anyway.

Ahhhhh...liberty is bliss. :)

[muawiyah]

The Obamugabe budget proposal had a lot of stuff in it. Did you forget that it had been REJECTED in the Senate by the Democrats?

None of the stuff he proposed for USPS happened.

Now, regarding my economics ~ I think I've been very clear in attributing unemployment to productivity improvement brought about by mechanization, automation, computerization, robotics and improved work methods.

Nothing leftwing about that ~ it's actually quite in line with traditional Republican ambitions to improve America through hard work.

Our current president, Obamugabe doesn't go for any of that new fangled stuff. He believes that the only employment worth fostering are pick and shovel road crews, elementary education public school teachers, firemen and cops.

[TXBlair]

I couldn’t agree with you more!!

[antceecee]

EGGS... zactly!!!!! ; )