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Subscribe to RSSThe most popular story on USA Today’s website is: “Clint Eastwood makes sudden impact at RNC.” From the story: “In an unusual speech for what is typically a highly scripted affair, Eastwood talked to an empty chair, which he addressed as if President Obama was sitting there. At one point Eastwood suggested the imaginary president had told him to say derogatory things. ‘What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself,’ he said.”
“Clint Eastwood was supposed to make Mitt Romney’s day. Instead, he made a mess of the Republican night,” the New York Daily News writes. “The Republican National Convention’s “surprise” act turned into a surreal shtick as the “Dirty Harry” actor delivered a swerving diatribe punctuated by a running conversation with an empty chair, a symbol of GOP dissatisfaction with President Obama.”
The New York Times: “Clint Eastwood’s rambling, head-scratching endorsement of Mitt Romney on Thursday set off immediate questions and finger-pointing among Romney supporters: Who booked Mr. Eastwood? Did anyone have an idea of what he was going to say? Did anyone read his remarks before they were broadcast? The actor, in one of the more unusual moments in Republican convention history, offered a speech in which he pretended to have an off-color conversation with an imaginary President Obama sitting by his side in an empty chair.”
Obama’s Twitter handle responded with a photo of the president sitting in a chair saying: “This seat's taken. http://OFA.BO/c2gbfi">http://OFA.BO/c2gbfi ,pic.twitter.com/jgGZTb02”
Orrin Hatch defended Eastwood on FOX: “I love Clint Eastwood. He's such a character.... and he's got guts. I mean, to be in the movie industry and come out and support Mitt Romney over the president, I thought was very, very good. Now my personal belief is that the monitor must have stopped running, but that doesn't make any difference. Clint's up there in age. I got to tell you, to come out there on that stage in front of all those people whooping and yelling and so forth, and to stand up for Mitt Romney the way he did? I thought it made a lot of sense tonight. I love him for it."
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Sorry Mitt & Clint, way too much football going on in Tennessee to be interested in what you were trying to say. If Clint is so worried about the unemployed, perhaps he sould take some of his "Dirty Harry" money and start a business paying the employess a living wage with good benefits. Once again the party of "family values" debunks their own platform as there is one thing everyone knows about Clint, he really does not have any family values of his own.
Despite poor journalism by NBC the country understands we need better leadership in the White House. Mitt Romney's experience turning around failing enterprises is just what this country needs. ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
And you know the country understands how UAW? Oh you were told by the republicans. Real reliable source. Did you watch the republican headliner Clint Eastwood last night? And you rely on them for your information? They talk to empty chairs.
yes in deed, vote republican and watch the deficit grow, watch the old starve, watch children go to sweat shops instead of school, watch the for profit prison(work houses) fill to the brim, watch our lakes and rivers turn into cesspools of poisonous gunk.
this is the last step to take over this great country of ours. the new american taliban party will be incontrol and, well you know about the talibans and how they treat women, children, the old, and everyone who does not agree with them, off with their head!
i wish this was an attempt at humor, but its not, its an alarm ringing loud and clear!
obama/biden 2012
I would recommend that someone at the DNC debate an empty suit, but that IS Romney
After watching Clint (which was painful to watch) I think his family should take better care of him and not let him make such a fool out of himself...
I've seen many Eastwood movies and really like the guy... But seeing him last night was really sad...
No Drama Obama... Stay the course...
We've had an empty suit in an empty chair for almost four years now, but you're all so busy counting your food stamps you didn't notice.
"If Clint is so worried about the unemployed, perhaps he should take some of his "Dirty Harry" money and start a business paying the employees a living wage with good benefits. (spelling correcetd)"
What an asinine comment.
Honestly it was very sad to see a great actor in this condition ...looking like he just escaped from a nursing home ..Complete with bed head and a old suit that no longer fits ..stumbling over his own words ...The Romney team was just as surprised as we were watching in horror .And Romney was caught behind the curtain laughing at this poor old faded star ! It was sad to see him this way .
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ROMNEY/RYAN 2012!
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
Thank you Clint for making the evening! The clown show continues! The man after Clint put me to sleep with his story telling!!
President Obama 2012!!
The man after Clint was on so much cocaine he is still awake
Clint Eastwood is 10 years older than I am. What I saw on that podium was a man trying desperately to communicate coherently his message to the crowd. And all I could think of was "My God. Don't let that be me in ten years." I sometimes ramble a bit, and I hope my mental acuities do not diminish like that.
Let us remember him as Josey Wales or Dirty Harry. Not as he was last night.
I agree Fred. But that's what the wacky right will do to you.
So to highlight the convention, they got a surrogate flip-flopper? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Clint do a commercial a few months bac where he said the auto bailout was the beginning of a Detroit comeback? Whens asked about it, he said he was by no means a Democrat but it was the right thing to do? Seriously? What's next from Mr Eastwood, "GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMNED KIDS!!!"?
Well, Fred, under O'bamacare when you go demented you'll be tossed in the garbage...
I only saw a clip of Clint Eastwood, but I didn't think he was that bad. In fact, I thought he brought some much needed levity to the proceedings. It doesn't bother me that Clint is a Republican, in fact, he reminds me of my brother, who is also a Republican. I like Clint, I love my brother, doesn't mean I have to vote with them.
But you know you should...
The hate for Our President is on-going and not even veiled.
The ignoramus in South Texas has more money than common sense!...So now he's getting the attention he deserves from the Secret Service!
http://www.kens5.com/news/Secret-Service-looks-into-So-Texas-Pray-for-Obama-sign--168045356.html
4 more for 44!
i think Mr. Eastwood is registered as a libertarian, not republican. i was on the phone with my father during his speech, and didn't take the time to watch it yet, just saw the highlights that were replayed, so don't have much of an opinion on the speech as of now...
My whole extended family are all republicans, with my wife being the sole liberal (although i agree with her side much more often over the past 6ish years) and i'm a registered independent after growing up through Reagan and H.W. Bush in a republican household. I don't mind difference of opinion when they are based in fact, or honest disagreement in principles. I can't stand demagogues and bald-faced liars though, hence my drift away from republicans recently.
What Clint managed to do is totally bury the nice speech that Rubio made. Nobody is talking about what Rubio said, they are all laughing at Clint, which is sad because even though I don't agree with his politics, he is one of my favorite actors and an icon.
You know what would have really had some "wow" factor? If they had brought back Ronald Reagan in a hologram, Tupac-style.
I wish the rest of the nation had done what I did last night. As Clint was making a fool of himself and Romney was failing to give any details about how he might accomplish anything good--if he really means to accomplish anything good--I watched the season finale of HBO's "The Newsroom." I saw Will McAvoy talk about an 80-year-old black woman, Dorothy Cooper, whose voting rights will effectively be taken away by Tennessee's new voter suppression law. I saw him talk about why he is NOT the RINO, the Tea Party-ers are RINOs (Republicans in Name Only). I saw him castigate these claiming-to-be Republicans for their denial of science, their misrepresentation of the founding fathers and writers of our Constitution, their religious fanaticism, their fear of progress, their fear of the democracy they falsely claim to be defending, their desire to control and subjugate women, and their pathological hatred of government unless it serves their twisted purposes. They are, he concludes, "the American Taliban." At the end of his broadcast, McAvoy says, "The American Taliban cannot survive, if Dorothy Cooper is allowed to vote."
Clint was very effective.
But why would the Romney camp commit suicide??? The had enough delegates to win but they had to silence Ron Paul to the extent of election fraud. FELONY'S. What is it about Pauls message that scares you so much that you would destroy all hopes of winning the next election with Obama. Please answer, I need to know why you would commit political suicide.
I have a couple of theories on that, but the most plausible is that the RNC is scared of the Tea Party. It's kind of like the pimp-prostitute relationship. The prostitute (the RNC) hates the pimp and what he takes from her and how he treats her, but is is too scared to try to make their own way without the pimp (the Tea Party). The prostitute always says she doesn't need him, how she is going onto better things, but always ends up staying because its easier than making your own way. They are scared of them, they don't like them, but they need them.
The RNC is scared of the Tea Party for another important reason: They have no core ideology, so they are RESULTS driven, something that no political party can hang their hat on.
How is Dirty Harry anyway ?
!! what year 1940 ? Can you put someone born after 1970 ....so creepy old
Clint made my day by saying that Obama is an empty suit setting in an empty chair.
I'm a Democrat from Ohio, and Clints age had nothing to do with what he said and what he was trying to get accross to the American people. In the state of Ohio, the coal mines, steel mills and yes , even the electric utility companies are shutting down.(They have no industry to generate electricity for). I don't have a party preference. I strictly go by the beliefs of the candidate. In this election we really do not have anyone worth voting for. All I know is if I had a business and in 4 years this employee did not do what he said he was going to do in his interview, I would fire him. And if his replacement didn't do any better, in 4 years I'd fire him also.
Obama has been empty from his chair.