[Cicero]

Great point. Clint Eastwood is a pro, still at the top of his form. Nothing he did was accidental.

I was actually thinking—despite the desperate lefty attacks on him—that he kind of pulled some of his punches. He could have hit Obama even harder. But that probably wouldn’t have been as effective with the people he wanted to reach. And no one could call it a hate speech and retain any credibility.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Nothing he did was accidental.

I agree.

[expat1000]

I was actually thinking—despite the desperate lefty attacks on him—that he kind of pulled some of his punches. He could have hit Obama even harder.

But that probably wouldn’t have been as effective with the people he wanted to reach. And no one could call it a hate speech and retain any credibility.

That's exactly right. Because it was ridicule without the meanness, the nastiness, the violence, of the Alinsky bunch, it was all the more powerful and enjoyable. There's a lot of gnashing of teeth on the other side over it because they know they were out-maneuvered on this one. Some are even, in desperation, falling back to playing the race card, which is so ridiculous - zero credibility there...