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If it's Monday, It Must be 'Empty Chair Day'
Tea Party Tribune ^ | 2012-09-02 19:18:17 | mrcurmudgeon

Posted on 09/02/2012 9:23:20 PM PDT by tselatysr

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

Are you feeling lucky? Well, are you, punks? Inspired by Clint Eastwood's Republican Convention soliloquy to an empty chair, representing the vacant years of the Obama presidency, many have been inspired to emulate Eastwood by declaring Monday (formally known as Labor Day) "Empty Chair Day."

As you may recall, the action hero of such film classics as "Dirty Harry" and "The Outlaw Josey Wales" used an empty chair as a prop to address our failed president. "We own this country," Eastwood said to the chair, "Politicians are employees of ours ... and when somebody does not do the job, we've got to let them go."

And Eastwood's idea has caught on.

I saw a photo posted on the Internet that shows a lone chair sitting on a front lawn. On it rests a sign that reads, "Labor Day has been cancelled due to lack of jobs. Monday is now Empty Chair Day. Put an empty chair in your front yard. Thank you, Clint, for bringing this to our attention."

On Facebook, a graphic artist took inspiration from Frank Shepard Fairely's iconic 2008 Obama poster, emblazoned with the word "Hope," and substituted a chair where the president's face once beamed ... oh, and the word "Chair."

In yet another contribution, a photo shows an empty chair with an empty suit dangling nearby.

So, go ahead, make Clint's day ... Empty Chair Day.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
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Here's mine:

81 posted on 09/03/2012 11:34:13 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Obama hates Mexicans (Fast and Furious))
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82 posted on 09/03/2012 11:34:24 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (EAT MOR CHIKIN)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
The Obama Statue:

Or in bronze, if you prefer:


83 posted on 09/03/2012 11:37:26 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: FReepers
As there's no other conceivable reason for a chair to be sitting out there at the road end of the acre . . .



Folks have been honking on their way by.
Y'all can bet that a lot of the ones who don't 'get it' will be askin' their friends 'WTH ! they're all over the place !?'


LOL


(too bad it's overcast .. there's actually a real pretty mountain in the background )-:

84 posted on 09/03/2012 12:28:56 PM PDT by tomkat (:-)
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Mountain? There are no mountains in Kansas!


85 posted on 09/03/2012 12:32:59 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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86 posted on 09/03/2012 12:34:08 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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Ain't Kansas, Toto !

:^P

87 posted on 09/03/2012 12:37:50 PM PDT by tomkat (:-)
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Broken Chair


88 posted on 09/03/2012 12:38:12 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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89 posted on 09/03/2012 1:03:11 PM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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90 posted on 09/03/2012 1:07:12 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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LOL!
I have a B-I-L that would love that chair.


91 posted on 09/03/2012 2:37:10 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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While I wasn’t a fan of Clint’s speech, I do agree that we need to embrace pro-gay and pro-choice Republicans/Libertarians like Clint if we want to beat Obama. I wish Ron Paul also would of spoken so maybe we could of gotten some of his base on our side as well.

It’s going to take a big tent to get Romney into the WH.


92 posted on 09/03/2012 2:49:00 PM PDT by turn_to
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93 posted on 09/03/2012 2:56:27 PM PDT by unique1
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Practiced in the art of subtlety, are you?

So long as they just shut up and vote rather than try to get conservatives to mirror Democrats, I’m all for big-tenters, lol.


94 posted on 09/03/2012 3:00:05 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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95 posted on 09/03/2012 3:04:13 PM PDT by unique1
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Here's mine. I've given up on making it smaller. Nothing I've tried has worked. Even starting over from scratch. empty chair 2012
96 posted on 09/03/2012 3:44:47 PM PDT by Melvalena
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As long as Nobama is in power EVERY DAY is EMPTY CHAIR DAY!


97 posted on 09/03/2012 3:46:44 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil, in Jesus name, amen.)
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SS visit in 10...9...8...


98 posted on 09/03/2012 4:35:58 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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99 posted on 09/03/2012 4:52:37 PM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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What an impressive landscape ! Beautiful !

BTW I never saw a pic that said it was over 2,000,000 ! bytes ?!


100 posted on 09/03/2012 4:54:10 PM PDT by PraiseTheLord
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