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Eastwood Rightly Mocks An Empty-Chair Presidency
IBD EDITORIALS ^ | August 31, 2012

Posted on 08/31/2012 4:23:14 PM PDT by raptor22

Tampa 2012: In remarks to a chair as vacant as the one in the Oval Office, a Hollywood icon reminds us that the president is a failed employee of the people and it's time to let him go.

As performance shtick, it may not have come off perfectly. But judging from the reaction from those "left of Lenin," as 82-year-old Hollywood legend described it during a sort of surprise appearance at the Republican National Convention Thursday, it skewered our absentee president perfectly.

"Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic," tweeted "left of Lenin" film critic Roger Ebert as Eastwood ad-libbed Thursday night to an audience of millions — and one empty chair. "He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him."

Eastwood's point, though delivered haltingly, was that President Obama is unworthy of the great nation he disparages and apologizes for incessantly, and that our failed employee should be given his walking papers.

Ebert and others miss the point that it is what Obama has done to us that is sad and pathetic.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinteastwood; eastwood; election2012; hollywoodblacklist; hollywoodreds; ibd; obama; rogerebert; romneyryan
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To: reed13k

Golf club? Nice touch.


41 posted on 08/31/2012 5:53:13 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: raptor22

I just read a liberal article saying no one wants to take responsibility for asking Clint Eastwood to speak - I am very glad someone did....we thought he was delightful....loved the empty chair and the references to go ...... clearly an anatomical impossibility. Obama is such a jerk.........


42 posted on 08/31/2012 5:53:22 PM PDT by yoe
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To: LS

I agree!


43 posted on 08/31/2012 5:53:22 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: Aquamarine

“Every Which Way but Loose”!!!
That is exactly what I thought of when I saw him last night.

People forget Clint did pretty low brow comedy. He did it well last night.


44 posted on 08/31/2012 5:56:17 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: yoe
I just read a liberal article saying no one wants to take responsibility for asking Clint Eastwood to speak ...

They are idiots. Clint is an icon.

45 posted on 08/31/2012 5:58:28 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$, A$PCA, or PETA.)
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To: raptor22

And Clint did it all WITHOUT a teleprompter.

I loved his presentation.

Short, Sweet, To The Point, (of his stiletto wit)

Rush said it all: “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Ebert is too stupid to know that.


46 posted on 08/31/2012 6:01:10 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a Hate Crime. I just Hope they don't like it.)
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To: raptor22

I thought it was rather funny,but I would have preferred seeing Eastwood talking to a Suit while it was hanging on a valet.Because Obama is nothing but an empty suit.


47 posted on 08/31/2012 6:02:11 PM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: netmilsmom

You got that right. Dead pan low brow. Listen closely, because if you don’t catch it, the subtle humor he uses will sail clean over your head.


48 posted on 08/31/2012 6:03:33 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a Hate Crime. I just Hope they don't like it.)
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To: raptor22

Thanks for the ping...

Clint Eastwood did an excellent job of outing the leftists - again. He’s got them all fired up and it’s fun to watch them all come unglued!

Good Job, Callahan!


49 posted on 08/31/2012 6:04:06 PM PDT by meyer (It's 1860 all over again - the taxpayer is the new "N" word)
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To: netmilsmom

Dirty Harry:

“Is that your dog?” “Why, do you want him?”

I forget which movie it was. Marvelous.


50 posted on 08/31/2012 6:07:12 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a Hate Crime. I just Hope they don't like it.)
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To: Salvey

I didn’t listen to Levin this evening.

Was that his take on Eastwood?


51 posted on 08/31/2012 6:11:52 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Cruising For Freedom

I bet someone in the Kremlin showed this to Putin and he probably fell over laughing. In fact, a lot of our Allies would do it also.


52 posted on 08/31/2012 6:17:18 PM PDT by twoputt
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To: raptor22

I couldn’t help but feel that Clint’s halting delivery was caused by his holding back the words he really wanted to say. Always a gentleman, that one.


53 posted on 08/31/2012 6:18:40 PM PDT by pingman ("Human history seems logical in afterthought, but a mystery in forethought." (Strauss & Howe))
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To: LS
Obama changed HIS schedule to now try and follow Romney to LA.

Romney should go to that Caterpillar plant in Illinois and discuss what happened after Obama's visit. He should also go to Tombstone, Arizona and discuss federal lawsuits against fresh water for the town. Pay a visit to Jan Brewer.

54 posted on 08/31/2012 6:25:54 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: LS

That empty chair has gone absoluately VIRAL...everyone is talking about...THANK YOU you useless mediaWHORE you did your job well...BAWHAHAHAHA!... Useful race baiting idiots...


55 posted on 08/31/2012 6:26:37 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: raptor22
Thought I would drop the Youtube link on here....I missed a couple of thibgs last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933hKyKNPFQ

Clint Eastwood RNC Speech (COMPLETE): Actor Assails Obama Through Empty Chair ABCNews

It is a good link....I don't think it will deliver a virus....

56 posted on 08/31/2012 6:26:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Carry_Okie

I agree. The biggest issue I had was there was very little call for Democrats to be defeated. We need a strong majority in the Senate and house. Otherwise, Romney will have no chance of straightening things up. “dingie” Harry Read won’t allow a Romney budget to be voted on. PERIOD.


58 posted on 08/31/2012 6:36:50 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: nuvista

Moreover, this was the 1st time that I can recall in which Obama was truly ridiculed - and it was devastating - and it was in front of 40 million people! Let the left/MSM squeal. From now on, when people see an empty chair, they’re going to think of the Islamomarixist!


Ans as Rush L pointed out a TelePrompTer in front of the chair.


59 posted on 08/31/2012 6:37:45 PM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Psycho_Bunny

When Michael Moore tried the same thing with Roger Smith, he was hailed as a genius.


60 posted on 08/31/2012 6:39:36 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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