"Go Hope Yourself"
“We own this country… Politicians are employees of ours…
And when somebody does not do the job,
….. we’ve got to let them go”
Clint Eastwood has more class in one strand of his gray hair than the entire obama administration and the leftstream press put together.
Clint Eastwood “made my day”.
"Go Hope Yourself"
“We own this country… Politicians are employees of ours…
And when somebody does not do the job,
….. we’ve got to let them go”
I think the Stammering, strolling delivery mocked 0bama’s stammering/strolling delivery whenever TOTUS brakes down, or 0bama falls behind TOTUS and loses his place
Not sure if we have seen the last of Eastwood. He may work even harder for Romney after what the media did to him.
The powerful image of the empty chair,
and a resounding “we own this country”.
These two things will survive.
These messages got through the noise,
into our common memory.
Much has been said about the style.
It was intentional. This is an expert.
Not his first day.
The use of silence made us perk up and listen, and made us
a little uncomfortable. Silence is terrifying in these venues,
both for the speaker, and the audience. He used that.
The tension was relieved in laugh out loud remarks.
How often does that happen in pol speeches?
Laughed out loud, we did.
Eastwood had to deal with the genuine “phoniness” issue as an actor. Had to convince the people he was not just acting, not playing a role.
He nailed that by not being slick and polished, by having the guts to let the silent moments hang a little too long, by not delivering lines in a practiced, rote manner.
It came across as an unrehearsed, unguarded, honest conversation between friends in a small room.
The result?
Not one person has questioned his sincerity.
The unanimity on this is remarkable.
He meant what he said.
Came to us as if from an old friend.
Finally,a third thing on the directed message.
Time to consider, just maybe, we have to let the guy go for not doing the job.
No hate, bigotry, ideology there, just plain common sense.
These thoughts resonate to real folks still on the fence, the only folks we need to speak to.
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I believe that this will become a standard for “great speech”, that the future common refrain will be to compare speeches to this, because of the effect it will have in the long run.
“needs more Eastwood”
It was a great speech, a great moment.
“Pundits suggest Clint was halting and lost his way. Maybe. But every time it seemed like that, he’d sharpen up and put a knife in Obama’s soft spots. If he was doddering, he chose his lucid moments shrewdly”
It struck me pretty quickly that Clint was channeling Jimmy Stewart and doing a helluva good Elwood P. Dowd.
Further, all who have worked in the "conservative" movement for decades know for a fact that a primary tool of so-called "progressives" has been to ignore challenges to their ideology--believing that by ignoring, they delegitimized such challenges.
Yes, Eastwood made a real "mark," because he carefully dissected and exposed what has been camouflaged and ignored by the media hacks who now pass for journalists in America.
As an example, one wonders at the often self-described “intellectual” “progressives” who support an "elderly statesman" image of Biden’s Vice Presidency status while, about Clint Eastwood’s brilliant satire, they flocked to the TV cameras these past few days to offer faux “pity” and sincere criticisms of what they described as everything from senility to chants that his "sad" appearance of being a “doddering old fool.”
It begins to dawn on me that we who saw it live may have been privileged to witness one of the master political addresses of the 21st century. Rhetors may be teaching from this speech 120 years from now. And no, I don't think that's a reach.