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spiral78



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:16 pm    Post subject: Curtains, Clint Reply with quote
Poor old fart. This was just cruel.

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A few hours before he was set to go on, the Republican National Committee let slip that Clint Eastwood would be the �surprise speaker� at the Tampa convention. However, the appearance seems to have been a surprise to Eastwood as well. Over the course of a rambling, highly unusual speech the legendary actor and director railed against the war in Afghanistan, defended Hollywood politics and carried on a discussion with an invisible Barack Obama in a nearby chair.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/31/clint-eastwood-vs-chair-best-tweets-from-his-republican-convention-speech/#ixzz25FNz5PQh


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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber 31 Aug 12 Great thing about the Eastwood routine: For millions of Americans, that will be their introduction to the GOP this yr. Led the network hour.
Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait @noamscheiber I mean, a rambling, uninformed old man is a pretty good way to understand the GOP.


Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/31/clint-eastwood-vs-chair-best-tweets-from-his-republican-convention-speech/#ixzz25FODM0Ib
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Guy Courchesne



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jon Stewart broke it down fairly well...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/01/1126671/-Jon-Stewart-brilliantly-deconstructs-Eastwood-speech-as-Republican-id
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Actually, the empty chair (Reminded me of that great novel "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison) upstaged Mitt.

It displayed more human qualities.

After hearing Randi Rhodes' first segment today, I wonder if maybe Clint was at the top of his game last night. He got the RNC to cheer for closing Guantanamo, got them to cheer for how bad an idea it was to invade Afghanistan (before Obama was even a Senator) and said attorneys shouldn't be POTUS (Mitt was an attorney). Maybe he knew exactly what he was doing. Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

Here's Jon Stewart:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/01/in-a-friday-night-special-jon-stewart-celebrates-clint-eastwoods-fistful-of-awesome/

Regards,
John
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artemisia



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was pretty sure Clint Eastwood must've had a masterplan to take Romney down by showing how he couldn't show up Obama. (You'd be hard pressed to call that a vicious attack on Obama or even a stinging rebuke...). And if bumbling 'support' is all that Romney can conjure up from Hollywood, (actors/directors being enormously important political beings), things don't bode well. I mean C E is no dummy.

C E: �Politicians are employees of ours so they�re just going to come around and beg for votes every few years and it�s the same old deal�. Nothing bumbling about that.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 1:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
watch it here:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/fri-august-31-2012/rnc-2012---the-road-to-jeb-bush-2016---a-fistful-of-awesome
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
johnslat wrote:
Actually, the empty chair (Reminded me of that great novel "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison) upstaged Mitt.

They might as well put an empty chair on the ballot against ROmney. Empty chair wins the election easily.
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btsmrtfan



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 1:31 am    Post subject: Re: Curtains, Clint Reply with quote
spiral78 wrote:
Poor old fart. This was just cruel.

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A few hours before he was set to go on, the Republican National Committee let slip that Clint Eastwood would be the �surprise speaker� at the Tampa convention. However, the appearance seems to have been a surprise to Eastwood as well. Over the course of a rambling, highly unusual speech the legendary actor and director railed against the war in Afghanistan, defended Hollywood politics and carried on a discussion with an invisible Barack Obama in a nearby chair.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/31/clint-eastwood-vs-chair-best-tweets-from-his-republican-convention-speech/#ixzz25FNz5PQh


TWEETS

Quote:
Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber 31 Aug 12 Great thing about the Eastwood routine: For millions of Americans, that will be their introduction to the GOP this yr. Led the network hour.
Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait @noamscheiber I mean, a rambling, uninformed old man is a pretty good way to understand the GOP.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/31/clint-eastwood-vs-chair-best-tweets-from-his-republican-convention-speech/#ixzz25FODM0Ib



No doubt but that is the way the left leaning liberals are unsuccessfully attempting to spin Clint's speech.

The reality is Clint brought down the house and some of his words from that speech will most certainly appear in GOP ads for the remainder of the race along with parts of the video where Clint landed some well thrown punches.

I'll go so far as to say the speech may very well have a significant impact on many voters including undecided ones that feel the "old fart" did rather well in what he did and said.

The chair was not incidental in the scheme of things, as was the fact it was empty. Johnslat's literary reference was the same thought I had. My guess is Clint thought of it before he said and did what he said and did.

The election could very well be decided by Clint's speech and is the highlight of an otherwise less than exciting run to that house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Finally, Clint knew exactly what he was saying and why he was saying it and how he was saying it. This is one of the major factors why it came across as well as it did.

So go ahead and make my day and give me some more of that liberal group think y'all love so much. Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 3:22 am    Post subject: Re: Curtains, Clint Reply with quote
btsmrtfan wrote:
spiral78 wrote:
Poor old fart. This was just cruel.

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A few hours before he was set to go on, the