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TOLEDO, OH -- Mitt Romney on Wednesday pointed to the health care reform law he enacted as governor of Massachusetts as proof of his empathy and care for the American people.
In an interview with NBC News, Romney referenced an element of his record he almost never invokes on the campaign trail to answer a question about how he can better connect with Americans and prove he understands the lives and trials of middle class Americans.
"I think throughout this campaign as well, we talked about my record in Massachusetts, don't forget -- I got everybody in my state insured," Romney told NBC's Ron Allen in an interview before his rally here tonight. "One hundred percent of the kids in our state had health insurance. I don't think there's anything that shows more empathy and care about the people of this country than that kind of record."
A new CBS/New York Times poll shows Obama leading in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Romney is focused on wooing the swing state of Ohio which has been won by every Republican who ever became president. NBC's Ron Allen reports.
Romney's health care law in Massachusetts has long been a lightning rod issue for conservatives, who unfavorably compare it to President Barack Obama's own federal law and as a damning reflection on Romney's conservative bonafides.
The former Massachusetts governor also touched on another portion of his biography that he seldom discusses to connect with average Americans: his time as a Mormon pastor.
"I think people have the chance, who watched our Republican convention, to see the lives that I've had a chance to touch during my life, to understand that as I served as a pastor of a congregation with people of all different backgrounds and economic circumstances that I care very deeply about the American people, people of different socio-economic circumstances," Romney told Allen.
Taking the stage for the final rally of his two-day Ohio bus tour moments later, Romney also spoke about the importance of compassion in his speech and said his interactions with Americans from all lots in life have shown him the greatness of America -- and that everyone has challenges of their own.
"You look around, you see everybody, they look happy, and you think everybody else is doing just fine, and you're the only one with problems. But the truth is, most people that you see have some real challenges in their life of one kind or another. I understand that," Romney said. "And I've seen that inside the heart of the American people, despite our challenges, is a conviction that this nation is the greatest nation in the history of the earth."
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
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Has anyone else noticed how unemployment began to rise in jan 2007 when the dems took over and has been going down since 2010 when we got a majority in congress again?
Dicto Simplisitor, trouble.
Circular logic.
Vote for me. I'll repeal the health care reform that proves I'm human.
Circular logic.
Vote for me and I promise I'll do what I should have done my first term.
Obamanation - so very well put. In other words "I didnt get it right the first time, in fact I didn't even try, too many parties, so little time, but this next go around I will do my level best to do something".
'what I should have done in my first term"
Fix Bush's depression?
Yep. Wasn't a big fan of Bush either. So if that makes you happy, yep.
But instead of worrying about the economy that helps ALL AMERICANS, he focused on his socialist agenda of healthcare and green tech, that only helps him and his buddies.
He had control of House, Senate and Presidency. He could have fixed the economy. He didn't. Doesn't matter who started it, it's his baby now.
OK, national health care and renewable energy doesn't help all Americans. I get it. Now can you be SPECIFIC (look it up if you need to) and tell us all just exactly what it was that should have been done to "fix" the economy?
ONation, maybe it was the GOP policies of trickle down (trick the voters), and deregulation that were the culprits. It takes a President and a Congress to f up a nation.
I'd rather have a President that is empathetic to America and Americans...than a President that is sympathetic to Islamist's and Terrorists...
Romney-Ryan 2012
If YOU and ROMNEY want to drag USA into another WAR, YOU should say so.
FYI, Obama got Bin Laden and other terrorists
Mr. Flip-Flop will "repeal empathy", leaving YOU and ALL the 47% with long faces.
hello MORONS Gop Butt kissers out there, can i ask you guy a question? is any "SMART MAN" like MIT MORONEY in gop party that we americans didn't discover yet? Does MIT Smarter than G.W.Bush 8yrs faliure Reccession policie$, would you like him to be your COMMANDER and CHEAT? or your lord and savior? which one was it?
When it comes to backside kissing the real champion is Obama! He has kissed more muslim backsides than J. Carter hs peanust...what has it brought? More hate and violence, he spends $70 Million for an apology in Pakistan and some politico there puts a $100,000 on the individuals hed who made the film,...Obama leaked information that lead the Pakistani idiots to the Dr who ID that Obama was in the house he was thought to be and the Dr. is sitting in jail for the next 30 years and Obama could care less..
stan, that is not true at all....but YOU should tell Romney that you are interested to be our next Secretary of State.
Obama's Cairo speach was a call to Muslim democracy. There are millions of Muslims in this world and we will lose that part of the world to China if we don't engage. Obama appropriately appologizes when Muslims are tortured or pissed on when dead. I am sure Romney doesn't have the understanding or grace to appologize for anything. He was right before he was wrong, specifically for insurance for children.
i am tire with you GOP morons like MIt out there, can wait November come!
maybe by then you'll learn to speak in coherent sentences. Ms. Mao Tse-Tung.
U, shut up, big difference between Chinese and Vietnamese, stupido elephant. Can you speak Vietnamese, only thing out of your mouth is sewage like verbiage and name calling.
Obama 2012
So I know what Romney said he stood for 2 years ago, and I know what he SAID he stood for yesterday, but does anyone know what he stands for today? Talk about an empty suit.
Plus, he is losing big time.
So the first thing Romney would do if elected is.....REPEAL EMPATHY
What an idiot Romney is.
Obama/Biden - 2012
Gop say Obama not created job? they are right, so who then? MR Bain? so who LAY OFF americans workers?? is it Mr Bain? so those Mr Bain lay off what do you call them? UNEMPLOYMENT? would you like me to spell out? Moroney?
Egg drop soup and fried wanton please.
Thanks for typing that on your Chinese made computer, made from plastics utilizing oil, running on electricity made from coal and oil, and shipped to you on a freighter utilizing oil, to be placed on a semitruck, made with Chinese electronic components and running on oil, and shipped over a road made of oil to get to you.
Clint's empty chair could do a better job than Odumbo.
Oh, wait Odumbo's chair is empty. Hmmmmmm.
Trouble, that was clever, not.
Obama 2012
Most people, like the ones here who follow NBC news, completely missed the brilliance of Clint Eastwood's performance. He was talking to an empty chair as if Obama were in it, knowing full well that the chair has been empty for four years, and is still empty. Clint knew that no one was in that chair; hasn't been anyone in it for four years, and will continue to stay empty for as long as Obama is in office.
Look on the bright side, all those thousands of soldiers that Bush killed and maimed in Iraq won't be entering the job market. That should help the unemployemnt figures.
Sam your sick,, those individuals went there because they were told to, and anyone in his/her right mind does not want to go to war regardless of the reason..they do their job because the volunteered,,would hate to see the draft again then people like you might have to serve...and were it not for those who serve you might not have the privilage of sitting were you are and spewing the dribble that your doing ...
agreed!! again where is the respect!!
Again, where was yours for President Bush?
....by Bush....for nothing. That was my point. What's yours?
Now that you mention it, where is the respect for Bush from the GOP? Wasn't he their president just 4 years ago? It's like he never existed.
It is time for the Republican's in general to be put in their place. From the Joe Wilson shout of "You Lie" to the Jim DeMint frothing at the mouth "Waterloo" speech! The McConnell's, Boehners, Cantor's, Romney, Ryan, Palin and Bachman's utter disrespect for the position of the President of the United States should be held up for future generations of what IS NOT ACCEPTABLE in today's politics.
I don't care if your Black, White, Red, Yellow, Christian, Muslim, Atheist Straight, Gay, Fat or Thin. The position of President of the United States should be respected and we as American's have lost touch with what is the True meaning of respect. VOTE FOR GOD'S SAKE and then RESPECT the choices thast the American people have chosen.
GOD BLESS ALL THOSE FOLKS OUT THERE ASSURING US OF OUR FREEDOMS!
All of the people you named have great respect for the office of the President of the United States, which is exactly why they call Obama a liar and are making plans for real hope and change when he is voted out of office.
Respect is earned, not acquired.
Thomas, I agree 100%
Like you respected Bush's?
T Diddy, all of the people he mentioned have respect for no one! Regardless of how you feel about a President, your party has embarrassed itself in trying to demean him! The reason is obvious and it's not just bigotry. You, and people like you, have had way too much tea. You need to get your head out of your a.... and look at reality! Romney is a joke! Ryan is the punchline!! No one is laughing!
Obama 2012!!! Vote Democratic across the board if you want to save us from people like T Diddy, Obamanation and the rest!!
Hey Theresa. Did you respect Bush's decisions in office or are you just another two-faced Demosocialist talking out both sides of your mouth?
I never called Bush the names you are calling our President, nor did I challenge his heritage. I did not like Bush. I thought and still think, he was the worst President we ever had. Unlike you and people like you, I disliked the wars, I disliked the tax cuts for the rich, I disliked the Executive Power he wielded so easily, that you criticize Obama for. I never stooped to the levels your party has. From the beginning, your party has denigrated, disavowed and generally tried to destroy him. There is a difference between not liking something and vilifying it!
T-DIDDY and UEM
Quite honestly I did Respect and Still Do Respect Bush and his Father. Just Because I may not agree with you does not mean I can't respect you for your opinion. My heart is not filled with hate. That's the only difference.
Glad to hear it Thomas. I can give a man's opinion respect as long as he respects mine. Theresa seems devoid of that fairness however.
You Got It
Respectfully
how about Gop say Obama muslim but usa white nation re-elect him to be president? think about it ?? haha
Dish face.
Ul, elephants gnarly behind, perfect visage for another round eye hater.
Obama 2012
Lien, the GOP doesn't care about your opinion, on the other hand we democrats welcome those new to our country as you will help as workers and help us maintain our relevance in the world.
Mitt Romney may be a good man to his family and his church, but he does not seem to care about anyone else. Like his friend and co-runner, Sherman Addleson, I mean Paul Lyin', they don't want to talk to, or listen to, anyone who is not rich. They are exactly what this country does not need. Health care, in a country as great as ours, should be a right. People should not have to suffer and die because they have no money to pay, and don't tell me that doesn't happen. I know first hand that it does!
Also, anyone who listens to Madonna, for any reason, is an idiot!
(Daniel Burke, Huffpost, Religion News Service, 09/27/2012) President Obama's support among Catholic voters has surged since June, according to a new poll, despite a summer that included the Catholic bishops' religious freedom campaign and the naming of Rep. Paul Ryan, a Catholic, as the GOP's vice-presidential candidate.
On June 17, Obama held a slight edge over Mitt Romney among Catholics (49-47 percent), according to the Pew Research Center. Since then, Obama has surged ahead, and now leads 54-39 percent, according to a Pew poll conducted on Sept. 16.
The Gospels tell us that we are to strive to be Christ-Like to use Christ as our "EXAMPLE" in life and in our decisions. Jesus, did not have an indifference to the poor, the aged or the disenfranchised, quite to the contrary he spoke for them. Jesus did not lie to his people in order to accomplish the greater good, if your message is good there is no reason to lie. I don't know what has happened to the Republican Party but they no longer share my Christian Values and as a Catholic, I will be voting for President Obama, he may not be perfect, but then NO ONE IS, but he does share my Christian Values. The HOLY SCRIPTURES reference the poor and social justice 300 times. Mitt Romney’s reference to the 47% was anything BUT Christ-like. He on-going deceptive ads; his indifference to the struggles of the American Middle Class and the poor; and his immoral love of money over humanity are troubling to Catholics.
His new political ad, where he speaks directly to the camera, is a hollow attempt to gloss over the devastating realization that Mitt Romney cares only about his wealthy friends and not the 47% of Americans which include, seniors, veterans, students, our Troops in Harms way; the working poor, the sick and the poor in spirit. Fool me once shame on Mitt, fool “US” twice shame on “US” for accepting Mitt Romney continuing LIES and DECEPTIONS!
Catholics have a great responsibility to speak for those that are in need and to be Christ-like. Consumed with detestation for abortion, contraception and homosexuality the Republican Party have strayed far away from “CHRISTIAN VALUES”, we are our brother’s keeper!:
Psalms. 140:12. I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the poor. (The Social Safety Net, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Tricare and Medicaid and Food Stamps)
Deuteronomy. 15:7. If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks. (Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Unemployment, the Minimum Wage)
Isaiah . 10:1-3. "Woe to those who enact evil statutes, and to those who continually record unjust decisions, so as to deprive the needy of justice, and rob the poor My people of their rights... Now what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the devastation which will come from afar?" (Income inequality, Supreme Court decisions that work against “WE the PEOPLE”. Wall Street vs. Main Street, Medicare, Social Security, voter suppression, Regulations affecting air, water and food, tax inequality and the ONE TRILLION DOLLAR FAILED WAR on DRUGS)
Luke 6:24. "But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full." (Income inequality, unfair tax rates that only benefit the 1% and Corporate subsidies vs. the Social Safety Net and avarice)
Proverbs 29:7. The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such concern.” (Medicaid, Welfare to work, Unemployment insurance, minimum wage, Affordable Care Act and Food Stamp Program, Dream Act and Student Aid)
Matthew. 6:24. "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Money." (Corporate greed and the avarice of the 1% and Wall Street)
Matthew 19:24 “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." (Greed, indifference and avarice of the plutocracy)
Timothy 6:10. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves with many a pang. (Re-Defining Christian Values-the Ryan Budget and prosperity doctrine, indifference to the plight of the Middle Class and the Poor, avarice of the 1%)
Matthew 7:1-5“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. (Judgment of each other and intolerance of our differences, Races and Beliefs)
James 4:11-12 “Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? ” (Tolerance and respect for one another, honoring God’s greatest gift the gift of FREE WILL)
Galatians 5:14 “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Tolerance and Respect for each other and the pursuit of happiness)
Proverbs 31:9 “Open your mouth, judge righteously; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” (Medicaid, Education, Food Stamps and the Social Safety net)
Leviticus 19:34"You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." (Immigration reform, Anti-Immigrant sentiment, the Dream Act)
Ezekiel 47:22 “You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel." (Immigration reform. the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, The Dream Act
Proverbs 12:22 “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.” Psalm 101:7”No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.” (“We Built That” misrepresentation by GOP and “Obama is removing the work requirement to welfare, all the speeches at the convention by GOP leaders, blatant lies not good for the Party of so called “Christian Values"
You mean like the lies the Oblahblah camp put out saying Mitt Romney killed a man's wife?
Please........
The best thing that ever happened to the Republicans was losing in 2008. They get to blame someone else for not fixing their failures fast enough.
wait..wait when GOP run our goevrment those GOP preachers say God put them there, right? but when DEMS run goverment GOP acuse them evil? why? god only bless GOP side? is it how MIT mind come up with 47%??
Wrong again, bar rag breath.
Very nasty round eye, eating too much elephant s it, dk head.
Obama 2012
So NOW Romney likes Romneycare, which is what Obamacare really is, after saying repeatedly that he would ELIMINATE OBAMACARE on the first day of his administration! Which we know couldn't happen anyway, but he DID say it! But then Romney says a lot of things....and will reverse them tomorrow, so don't commit anything to memory cause the script changes day by day with Romney!!
Usually when Romney says something like that, his campaign corrects him within a day or two. It should be coming soon.
Why does Romney keep calling himself a pastor... my exmo husband says that Mormon's don't have "pastors". I think he is trying to mainstream his religion.
Obama - please 4 more years of living life large. It is the least you can for me since your racist country has kept me down for my entire life. Let me give you an example- I have been told that I have graduated from the best colleges and universities in the world and yet after graduation the only job I could get was a $13k a year gig as a community organizer. All of my classmates and this Romney guy made six figures right out of the gate and became millionaires - This country owes me - Sincerely BHO and the H stands for Hookah - I think
Obama = Socialist
Romney = Capitalist
And lst I heard this nation was built on capitalism, not gulags.
th eonly best about GOP party today is they are in level of the PHARISEES!
Demsocialists = Khmer Rouge
Republicans: 4,447 Americans fitted into body bags in a false war.
Khmer Rouge wrong country dk head, Cambodia, ignoramus.
Obama 2012
Obama continues to finance the terrorist. he keeps them supplied with weapons, ammunition and explosives that are killing our soldiers and will be used against us.
Frank Marshall Davis Bio - Barrack Obama's REAL father
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) propagandist in Chicago and Hawaii, as well as a writer and poet. The FBI had Davis under investigation or surveillance for 19 years, compiling a 600-page FBI file. He was on the FBI's 'Security Index A', meaning he would be arrested in the event of national emergency.
In 1930's Chicago, CPUSA recruited journalists to help spread Soviet influence in American public opinion. Frank Marshall Davis was one of them. A graduate of Kansas State Journalism School, Frank Marshall Davis joined the Communist Party and began writing for The Chicago Star. He was a colleague of journalist Vernon Jarrett, father-in-law of Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett. Davis also taught at Chicago's Abraham Lincoln School, a Communist run training school run by CPUSA. Davis authored three major volumes of poetry, and later an autobiographical sex novel under a pseudonym.
In 1948, the Kremlin ordered CPUSA to facilitate a US withdrawal from the Hawaii as US naval forces were considered an obstacle to Soviet expansion in Asia. CPUSA assigned Frank Marshall Davis to Honolulu where he began writing for the Communist Newspaper, theHonolulu Recordin 1948. In his columns, Davis flawlessly mirrored official Soviet propaganda - he blamed American capitalism for starting World War II, denounced the Marshall Plan, preached wealth redistribution, nationalization of industry and government healthcare, while bashing Wall Street. Davis also helped organize the Communist controlled ILWU (union) in a failed effort to take over the Hawaiian government in 1949. The Hawaii NAACP chapter complained to its national office, "Comrade Frank Marshall Davis suddenly appeared on the scene to propagandize the membership with the purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line." In 1956, Davis was subpoenaed by the Senate Subcommittee on Un-American Activities and pleaded the fifth. Dreams from My Real Fathermakes the case that on August 4, 1961, Frank Marshall Davis became the father of the future 44th President of the United States and indoctrinated him with a Marxist ideology during his formative years.
Are you really that ignorant? Wait, nevermind, your post answers that question.
You are good at cut and paste. Time to go on ignore.
Cut and paste from other extreme right wing posters, a little plagiarism? Who cares, the President wasn't even born when said events took place, 1948, please. Frank Davis is dead and can't defend himself from the likes of right elitist. a brietbart extravaganza, and the zombie crowd has taken up the cudgels.
Red menace alert--beep, beep
Obama 2012
Just for future reference; stupidity is not a virtue.
The problem with you idiots is you are too stupid, lazy and have your heads so far up Obama's azz that you are blind to the facts.
Do your own research. Look up, Frank Marshall Davis, Obama's REAL father and mentor.
There was a documentary on the internet, "ourcommunistcommanderinchief", that exposed Obama for what he really is but when Obama found out he had it removed. He has tried to eliminate the first amendment from our Constitution, now he is attempting to control the internet.
Research, it's not really that difficult.
Romney - Ryan 2012
Full circle mitt, stand for something longer than a day and a half, credibility passed ground zero. GOP supporters, say something nice about mitt, like a man of his word, or talk about his integrity, compassion, honesty, a real stand up guy, has a mind of his own? Betcha cant.
Obama 2012
He has more integrity than Oblahblah.
He's never applied for a scholarship as a foreign exchange student when he wasn't.
He's never attended meetings with known terrorists to malign him self with our country's allies.
listen up stupido, asked about romney, so far you have been unable to say one decent thing about your hero. Sling aspersions left and right doesn't make them so. Feel better now. Say something nice about romney, I knew it you can't, only vitriolic noise about the President. Elephant tool. I don't know fool, Bebe is running a close 1st.
Obama 2012
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
That is the attitude, the promise, the foundation of what made this country great, it’s what will keep it great. The Neo-Con … con, is that the poor are bringing this country down; it’s a lie. The greed of the wealthy, who already control 80% of the wealth, and still aren’t satisfied, is what has weakened These United Sates. Starting with Ronald Reagan they abandoned the Sherman Anti-Trust laws and protective tariffs that kept our jobs safe. Then they entered into treaties that allowed and encouraged outsourcing the good paying jobs. They pushed through legislation that lowered their taxes on earnings over $3 million from above 70% to less than 30% and they won’t be happy until it’s zero. It is zero for many of them due to offshore
banking and tax loopholes (that’s part of your 47% Mr. Romney); on the premise that they would use that tax savings to create jobs. Instead that money is now sitting in offshore banks earning tax free interest doing nobody any good but the wealthy.
What they’ve created is an impoverished Middle Class that WORKS at low paying jobs (often two) to keep their family fed and a roof over their head, that’s the part of the 47% you can’t be bothered with … Mitt. The truth is these Neo-Con’s that are crying about socialism and welfare cost These United States MORE in tax breaks and pampered policies than all the welfare and social programs ever did or will. They really need to rename their party the NEOCON party, no Jefferson Republican would recognize it.
Obama-Biden 2012
Thanks for typing that on your Chinese made computer, made from plastics utilizing oil, running on electricity made from coal and oil, and shipped to you on a freighter utilizing oil, to be placed on a semitruck, made with Chinese electronic components and running on oil, and shipped over a road made of oil to get to you.
Working for your money is immoral now but spitting out babies every 12 months for more money is okay
Nation, your making my point, until Reagan those were American Jobs. Romeny is a great creator of jobs ... in China!
O and Joe - Four more years!
UEM, MOST of Romenys 47% are working they just are working at low paying jobs and are so poor they don't quaiify to pay INCOME TAX. But they do pay sales, gas, school and all the hidden taxes we are all stuck with. The do that while the rich do nothing but live off tax free income from their off shore accounts.
Obama - Biden 100% for America
Congratulations! You get the "comrade" post of the day. Let me just remind you of your 2 choices this November (that is, if you can vote).
1. A socialist, big government guy.
2. A capitalist, free market guy.
You choose comrade. As for me, I'm voting for free markets and against Stalinism!
Ulyses, hold on now I have a FACT for you. Don't be scared, and don't run from it....here we go:
Under Obama's administration manufacturing jobs in China have out paced those in America. It's a fact, look it up if you can!
You forgot
3. A complete Fn idiot.
Who is the free market guy? is Hillary running?
sdc. You really don't know the difference do you?
More than you could possibly know. I was smart enough to see through the rhetoric (on both sides) a long time ago.
Moroney speech remind us alot about CLINT EASTWOOD " EMPTY CHAIR"?? after all Clint admited he has no plan he make up plan as he go by talking to EMPTY CHAIR! WOW how true today with MIT???