Posted on 09/07/2012 7:13:32 AM PDT by NYer
Indeed he is.
After a week as topic No. 1 in American politics, former Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians after his appearance at the Republican National Convention last Thursday night, followed by an avalanche of support on Twitter and in the blogosphere, is all the proof anybody needs that his 12-minute discourse achieved exactly what he intended it to.
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.”
For five days after he thrilled or horrified the nation by talking to an empty chair representing Obama on the night Mitt Romney accepted the Republican nomination for president, Eastwood remained silent while pundits and critics debated whether his remarks, and the rambling way he made them, had helped or hurt Romney’s chances of winning in November.
But in a wide-ranging interview with The Pine Cone Tuesday, he said he had conveyed the messages he wanted to convey, and that the spontaneous nature of his presentation was intentional, too.
“I had three points I wanted to make,” Eastwood said. “That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.”
YES! HOax!
Clint’s the best!
Indeed!!!
I hope and pray he lives a 120 healthy, happy years!
I remember his mom lived well into her 90’s.
BTTT!
I would like to print and put that on our chair :)
OMG!!! Too funny with A LOT of truth behind it.
B U M P to Eastwood.
Thanks for the ping.
Go Clint!
Thanks for the ping, onyx. Good thread.
And musicman...what can I say? You ALWAYS nail it with your posts!!! BRAVO!!!
Can someone Photoshop an Obama HOPE poster with HOAX?
I wish Eastwood would have added to his presentation at the convention, “Well, a man’s got to know his limitations”.
You encapsulated EVERYTHING!
(....I love good old descriptive words, LOL)
Leni
Thanks for the inspiration Clint.
Trump has called him a fraud. Receive same MSM ridicule treatment.
It tells the process he went through to create his routine. The confidence he had to go up on stage with three basic ideas to get across and then do it all off the cuff. He is a true master of his craft.
The idea of using the chair came literally just before he went on stage when a stage hand offered him a chair to sit in at the podium. Clint got the inspiration right then and said no just put it to the side of the podium. He developed the whole routine while on stage.
It was real. It was spontaneous. It was masterful and based on a lifetime of performing and living.
A delightful article.
I have to confess I was worried Eastwood was going to be another weak rino but after his convention speech and now this I have to say he is giving me a thrill in the brain...ahahaha.
I have to confess I was worried Eastwood was going to be another weak rino but after his convention speech and now this I have to say he is giving me a thrill in the brain...ahahaha.
Clint is not a Republican.
He is an independent that sees Obama is a disaster.
Even better. I’m going to have to google him. I really don’t know much about him politically.
Good point. Clint is secure in himself and has the confidence to know he can say what needs to be said when he gets up on stage.
Another insight from this article, is that Romney personally invited Clint to the convention to have time on stage. Romney and the campaign had enough confidence in Clint to not vet his script (there was none!) and trust him go up on stage and be Clint.
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