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Obama Campaign Responds to Eastwood's Empty Chair Jibe
Friday, August 31, 2012 | Kristinn

Posted on 08/31/2012 5:26:56 AM PDT by kristinn

The Twitter account of Barack Obama responded last night to Clint Eastwood's Republican convention speech mocking Obama with an empty chair.

A photo captioned "This seat's taken" was posted featuring a rear view of Obama presiding over a meeting while seated in a highback leather chair with a brass plaque on the back embossed, "THE PRESIDENT January 20, 2009"

If the photo doesn't load, here's the URL: http://p.twimg.com/A1mY4mRCAAM_qwX.jpg:large


TOPICS: Front Page News; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2012rncconvention; belongsinchat; clinteastwood; eastwooding; eastwoodspeech; gopconvention; obama; obamatwitter; vanity
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To: Joe 6-pack

This image makes me feel simultaneously amused and physically ill. We could cover our eyes and use that green thing to sling him back to Indonesia. Okay! I’m feeling better!


141 posted on 09/01/2012 9:56:41 AM PDT by floralamiss
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To: Joe 6-pack

ROFLMAO


142 posted on 09/01/2012 12:36:44 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: dforest

Some guys pull on them harder than other guys.


143 posted on 09/01/2012 9:16:38 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: bcsco

***I don’t think we need to make too much of this.***

Now that the Empty Chair has become the symbol for the Resident, you might want to re-think “making too much of it.” An Empty Chair will be taking the place of yard signs, and bumper stickers featuring an Empty Chair will be taking the place of conventional stickers. Everywhere Zero goes, empty chairs will mock him. There is a wealth of Empty Chair graphics out on the web for us to use to mock Zero and his minions. This whole “meme” will grow, as evidenced with National Empty Chair Day, and Zero is powerless to stop it.

Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals
Rule 5:

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.


144 posted on 09/05/2012 7:39:16 AM PDT by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed Catholic Texan)
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To: nanetteclaret

What you said.

A Romney yard sign is one thing.

A Romney yard sign with an empty folding chair next to it is quite another.


145 posted on 09/05/2012 7:43:14 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: nanetteclaret

I don’t think you understood my post. My point was, believing the Romney team used Alinsky rules in allowing the empty chair skit is a little over the top. Sure, it fits the mold, but that doesn’t mean they consciously used Alinsky rules. I doubt that very much.


146 posted on 09/05/2012 7:55:56 AM PDT by bcsco (Bourbon gets better with age...I age better with Bourbon.)
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To: UCANSEE2; F15Eagle
To size an image that works with all screen sizes and resolutions use something like width="40%" which will size the image to be 40% of the width of the container of the image. You can do this trick with height as well but usually the width of the container is more obvious than its height.

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147 posted on 09/05/2012 8:37:27 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer. Programming for everyone.)
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To: Mycroft Holmes; F15Eagle

BTW, Thank you for providing the tech assist.

I was wrong in telling F15Eagle that picture size was not device dependent.

I have started using the ‘percentage’ rather than ‘pixels’ and have noticed the differences in sizing. Before (for some dumb *ss reason), I had thought the pixel width would be absolute instead of device dependent.

It was after I made a fool of myself telling F15Eagle it was his fault that I started thinking about the various details he responded with. Your response confirmed it.

My apologies, F15Eagle. At least I learned something.


148 posted on 09/05/2012 2:54:07 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Did you do the editing on that photo ?


149 posted on 09/05/2012 2:55:36 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Nope....just found it online.


151 posted on 09/05/2012 2:59:54 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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