I loved this. Some of my coworkers are running around whimpering that we’re doomed, but that’s because they didn’t get the context.
Clint’s performance (and that’s what it was; it wasn’t a speech) was allegorical. The empty chair represented so many things; an empty presidency, the president being an empty suit, empty promises, empty ideas, our future will be empty should he be reelected.
But the performance went beyond that. Some here have taken his appearance and manner as being not in control, his age affecting him. I don’t think so. I think he may have wanted to give that appearance. He wanted to be one of us, the seniors of this nation. He wanted them to know it is all right to criticize, parody, perhaps even ridicule the One. The One who runs on empty. And, he wanted us to know that we’re in charge. This is our country, our White House. Our chair. We determine who sits there.
That’s why Obama’s tweet “This chair’s taken” is so mindlessly stupid. It’s not his chair to keep. We say who sits there. Yet Obama not only showed his disdain for Clint Eastwood, but for Americans in general. His “This chair’s taken” comment flies in the face of the American electorate. Come November, I want to show him exactly who owns that chair, and who we want to sit in it at our pleasure. Tell that to your co-workers.