posted September 01, 2012 01:14 PM            

although i admire him greatly i consider it amusing that anyone would call him a HERO, or see what he did as "pouring his guts out"; he's an actor and quite the tongue-in-cheekist.

a gemini horse with scorp rising, he often seems more intense than he is...part of his appeal, that scorp rising;

i had to laugh when i heard one leftish pundit suggesting that the "we own it, not you" was a racist implication that WHITE people own the country...that is not in clint's sphere at all. but then when biden mentioned "chains" to an audience with black people in it the right got all tangled up in that, thinking he was addressing only half the audience for some reason.

posted September 01, 2012 02:15 PM            

in this case, he left me scratching my head . I didn`t know it was unscripted but should have caught on by the hesitation and long pauses between sentences. Very unlike him, I thought.

I agree with some he did detract from Mitts message but, once an actor.....

posted September 01, 2012 02:29 PM            

funnily clint got his big break in those spaghetti westerns...italy being a stronghold of socialism AND anarchy simultaneously. dirty harry always struck me as a double-edged statement too.

posted September 01, 2012 02:38 PM            

What is his history of political leanings. I note you used calico cat in description

posted September 01, 2012 03:17 PM            

During the 2008 United States Presidential Election, Eastwood endorsed John McCain for President; he has known McCain since 1973.[8] Upon the election of Barack Obama, Eastwood stated "Obama is my president now and I am going to be wishing him the very best because it is what is best for all of us."[9]

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posted September 01, 2012 03:24 PM            

Indeed Calico kitty describes him.

I didn`t realize he was an outspoken Hollywood celebrity tho.

I love his acting but perhaps he should let comedy gigs float by him.

posted September 01, 2012 05:54 PM            

Eastwood used soft ridicule on O'Bomber..not the blatant in your face ridicule dished out by leftist attack ads against Romney and Ryan.

The best line and it was deliberately delivered was Eastwood telling everyone that when someone isn't doing the job, we have to let them go. The audience and almost everyone who lives in the real world understands that.

posted September 01, 2012 05:59 PM            

It has become clear that many people who voted for Obama in 2008, buying into the diaphanous hope and change promise, are disappointed in his performance. Yet many of these good hearted people still are reluctant to abandon the First Black President, out of a sense that such an historic event is not lightly jettisoned.

Giving permission to such voters to choose an alternative is one of the key psychological battles ahead. Clint Eastwood's historic address to the Tampa RNC is best understood as part of this effort. His aside that you have to let someone go when he doesn't produce was the key point of the entire exercise, coming from a man who is a renowned director, as well as an actor.

Another extremely effective method of offering psychological permission has been superPAC ads featuring former Obama voters expressing their disappointment. Perhaps the ultimate such approach is the movie The Hope and the Change, produced by luminaries David Bossie, Stephen K Bannon, and the great Pat Caddell, a liberal with honesty and a conscience. It features former OBama voters explaining why they are changing this year.

Sean Hannity screened the film on August 24th, and according to Breitbart News, was the top rated program on cable news that day. Because of its effectiveness, it was repeated Friday nioght, and now, we are told it will be repeated tonight, at 10 PM Eastern time.

If you have any friends who supported Obama in 2008, perhaps you might suggest they record this one and see what they think.

posted September 01, 2012 08:03 PM            

however i have heard plenty of "rightists" complaining about clint's performance.

posted September 01, 2012 09:35 PM            

It started off slow, IMO, and fact is I think I'd have stopped watching in the first 5 minutes had not a friend told me to keep watching, but then it got much better, IMO.

And then came this brilliant line:

"[Obama] has issues and there are very legitimate debates to be had about his policies and actions and successes and/or failures as president. I mean tune in next week. But I could never wrap my head around why the world and the president that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the president that I experience. And now I know why. There is a President Obama only Republicans can see. And while the president the rest of us sees has issues apparently this president, invisible to many, is bent on our wholesale destruction...

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"If you really want to make this election about [Invisible Obama]...let me see if I can paraphrase...go ahead, make my day."

Of course he points out how many of the things said to "Invisible Obama" were at least as applicable (if not more so) to Bush and/or Romney. (A brief example was Clint saying it wasn't a good idea for attorneys to be POTUS and Stewart's response of, "Yeah, take that Harvard lawyer Barack Obama, you'll never be the man Harvard lawyer Mitt Romney is.")

The part with Clint Eastwood was only in the first 15 minutes (after it goes to commercial again then that part is over), but it had other moments after, too. (Liked the one, "Can I see your papers? [takes ID] Republicans are right, this feels good.") The "running America like a business" was interesting, too, I liked how people from the worst 3 states (that took in far more federal funds than it paid in taxes) and made them compete with the loser "getting the recommendation to be fired by Romney." (When it gets to 20 minutes, I think where 2 women thank a Hooters waitress for providing a safe place after getting kicked out of Woman Up that it ends, so don't bother sitting through the commercials as little more than credits follow.)

posted September 01, 2012 11:49 PM            

Clint Eastwood’s speech to the Republican National Convention has been panned as badly delivered and condemned as disrespectful. But it drew some of the most enthusiastic response of any speech at the three-day event.

Why is that? Are Republicans a bunch of disrespectful yahoos lacking in appreciation for rhetorical skills? No. Their response counters the critics and demonstrates that there is more than one way to deliver a message. My hunch is that a whole lot of people across the political spectrum were both humored and inspired by the iconic actor’s words.

Of course, the talking heads at MSNBC and CNN were in high dudgeon in their disapproval. As, no doubt, were most hard-core Obama supporters, at least after learning from the high priests of liberalism that they were supposed to be offended. After all, Eastwood said neither Mitt Romney nor he could do IT to themselves. Apparently the super-sensitive Rachel and Wolf have never heard a conversation among today’s youth, or even the youth of their own generation. Sometimes, particularly in today’s politics, you have to be a little outrageous to get anyone’s attention. Certainly Clint got their attention.

I suppose it is surprising that the campaign consultants and party poobahs allowed Eastwood to speak without an authorized script. But then, Eastwood is Eastwood. Who’s going to tell the make-my-day guy what to say? And thank goodness he was allowed to be himself, though it’s doubtful he would have spoken otherwise. No sanitized, synthesized, authorized script would have been anywhere near as effective.

What media critics heard as unprepared, bumbling and rambling prattle, millions of Americans heard as an expression of their frustration with nearly four years of economic lethargy and political divisiveness. What the naysayers heard as disrespect of the president, millions of Americans heard as a challenge to a leader often disrespectful of those who disagree with him. People do not soon forget when told that they cling to their guns and their religion, and that they have not built the businesses in which they have invested life and treasure.

A carefully vetted speech read from a teleprompter like most of the convention speeches would have been lost in the mists of endless and predictable words meant to inspire without offending, and without committing anyone to anything. Eastwood said what was on his mind. We need more of that in American politics — more honest debate and less pandering — more communication and less obfuscation.

Eastwood was not speaking to the Republican base or to independents, or to moderate Democrats. He was speaking to anyone willing to listen. Some who listened took offense. But my guess is that most who listened found themselves nodding in agreement and smiling at the jokes, even if off color.

posted September 02, 2012 07:39 AM            

Clint loves this country, in a heartfelt way. That was the most obvious part, to me.

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posted September 02, 2012 11:31 AM            

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If they don’t do their job, we fire them. Pretty basic stuff that most people, in most walks of life, understand.

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Indeed, we do. Where was Clint during the Bush years?

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posted September 02, 2012 01:50 PM            

Funny, I don't recall any of these now perpetually offended types being offended when their fellow leftists were dressing Bush up in Hitler Uniforms and Satan suits or drawing cartoons of Bush in a dunce cap.

Oh, and Bush has a higher IQ than their flavor of the day..at that time..John Traitor Kerry.

Strange huh how they're soooo offended when their little Marxist Messiah O'Bomber gets his turn in the barrel. Which has been my point about leftists for a very long time.

The hypocrisy coming off leftists is so thick it could be cut with a knife. Their outrage is phony and not to be believed for a second because if it's real, then they need to be institutionalized...quick..as being totally divorced from reality.

posted September 02, 2012 02:03 PM            

Truman's presidency was also eventful in foreign affairs, with the defeat of Nazi Germany and his decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan, the founding of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the Truman Doctrine to contain communism, the beginning of the Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, the creation of NATO, the Chinese Civil War, and the Korean War. Corruption in Truman's administration, which was linked to certain members in the cabinet and senior White House staff, was a central issue in the 1952 presidential campaign and helped cause Adlai Stevenson, Truman's successor for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, to lose to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election. Popular and scholarly assessments of his presidency were initially negative, but eventually became more positive after his retirement from politics. Truman's legendary upset victory in 1948 over Thomas E. Dewey is routinely invoked by underdog presidential candidates.

no one thought truman would win in '48. he was much criticized and much hated. as in obama's presidency, foreign events were HUGE during his terms and the way he dealt with them was not always appreciated by the "people".

truman was perhaps less liberal than roosevelt, but he was a liberal all the same. he used executive order to do what was later furthered by congress in respect of segregation and discrimination against non-whites.

people tend to ignore the fact that eastwood is also pretty liberal - in some ways...the fact he mentioned conservatives in hollywood doesn't change the fact that he supported gray davis and is a keen environmentalist.

i believe he used the convention platform to address obama as much as the republicans. he is not really a party animal at all.

posted September 02, 2012 02:06 PM            

The hypocrisy coming off leftists is so thick it could be cut with a knife. Their outrage is phony and not to be believed for a second because if it's real, then they need to be institutionalized...quick..as being totally divorced from reality.

since you have stated your MO is a direct copy of the leftists you claim to despise, jwhop, the above is a bigger piece of hypocrisy than what you're complaining about.

saying you despise them and then IMITATING them (the highest form of flattery, remember?) is ludicrous.

why not try your own tack, instead of continuing the abuses you claim to abhor?

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posted September 02, 2012 06:42 PM            

**I love Newts ending statement tho

"I think in the long run it's almost irrelevant. But it's the sort of bump that gives everything something to tweet about, and it provides lots of fodder," Gingrich said. "On the other hand, if you're Mitt Romney and your choice is to have Saturday Night Live decide to pick on Clint Eastwood or pick on you, I think- I think I'd give them Clint Eastwood for every night for the rest of the campaign."
http://news.yahoo.com/clint-eastwood-gets-cut-romney-rnc-video-203935058--abc-news-politics.html

posted September 02, 2012 07:15 PM            

The only difference is that leftists lied through their teeth about Bush but I don't have to lie about the leftist boobs I choose to comment on here and most certainly not about the little Marxist Messiah O'Bomber. He's everything I say he is and more...a hell of a lot more and I doubt the whole truth about O'Bomber will ever fully known.

posted September 02, 2012 07:24 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
yeah, that's right katatonic. After the Bush in Hitler uniforms, after Bush in Satan suits, after Bush in dunce caps and after warning leftists here to stick to Bush policies with which they disagreed..several times, THEN katatonic I started a campaign of deliberate inflammatory rhetoric to highlight the flaws in leftist icons. You've never heard such whining, moaning, wheezing and shrieking.

The only difference is that leftists lied through their teeth about Bush but I don't have to lie about the leftist boobs I choose to comment on here and most certainly not about the little Marxist Messiah O'Bomber. He's everything I say he is and more...a hell of a lot more and I doubt the whole truth about O'Bomber will ever fully known.

So yeah katatonic, it's intentional, it's deliberate, it's purposeful and it's going to continue. Leftists shouldn't start something they can't finish and they sure as hell can't say they weren't warned.

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Rock on with your bad self Jwhop

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