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Actor Clint Eastwood speaks Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
The actor and director, 82, has sparked jokes, imitators, and more after his "invisible guest" speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. Here's a selection of the reactions online to Clint Eastwood.
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Way to go, Rmoney! Keep up the great work!
Looks like you'll still be unemployed next January.
Yeah ok Barry ......you just keep telling yourself that .
But what about you? You might be unemployed too. Or find work in the Welfare department. That is the department that will be really hiring under Obama. Oh forgot, IRS will be hiring too. That will be the moto of new America. IRS will rob people with money and Welfare will be spending and giving it away to all those who don't want to work. That is called Obamanomics.
Amen Barry. Can't wait for voMITT to be a distant memory.
It was somewhat unsettling to watch Clint's talk. As an actor, I really like the guy. However, his politics don't settle well with me. I do give him credit for speaking on the cuff. It was kind of clumsy, and yet it was kind of gutsy. I would have to say to Clint that the poor and middle class really need a hero, too.
Willard ....pretty sure you'll be waiting approximately 8-10 yrs for that.....
Willard, The poor and middle class are going to benefit how under Obama? Sustained unempoloyment, Rising Inflation, Rising Interest Rates, Jobs going over sea's due to increasing regulations, Increasing illegal immigrants that are an unskilled work force that leach on social programs, Cutting the space program (the home of some of the most important innovation this country has ever seen) and now the weakening of our defense systems that keep this country safe. Right now middle class is laying on the floor, why would you want to stay there? Especially when any other choice would have no other direction to go then up, and I believe that Romney/Ryan have still more experience than our lean on the job president that is there now!
Romney/Ryan 2012 It's time that a president takes responsibility!
Shyam - yes you are correct if Romney wins, the IRS will go after your money. He will need to pay somehow for the tax breaks for the millionaires. Oh and the unemployment lines will be longer since the Government will not be able to bail anyone out anymore. Oh the deficits will be higher since we will be getting ready for wars with Russia, Iran and whomever else is pisses him off. At the end he will move to Cayman islands altogether as there will not be the USA as we know it anymore.
Romney says he is going to cut taxes for everyone and pay down the deficit. With what? That sounds just great to those who believe in magic. As for Clint Eastwood, I think it would have been better if Republicans had spared that poor old man the embarrassment. If he had performed in his movies as he did last night, his acting career would have ended before it began.
Clint is very capable at theater... and this is no exception even if it was a little awkward....
the real story is how much better Clint was than Romney... which is sad....
I honestly don't expect anything to change come January, regardless of which talking head ends up in the White House.
TO: Mark L-464288 who wrote:
We are STILL waiting for George "Curveball" Bush to "take responsibility" for destroying the entire United States Economy, but the fact is, Republicans NEVER take responsibility for any of their failures, they just claim amnesia and pretend nothing ever happened.
Romney has lined up all of Bush's old failed Cabinet and Staff members who lied us into War and borrowed and spent us into the 2nd Great Depression, and all Republicans can say is "Let's do it again"? Some might think of collapsing the entire United States Economy as domestic terrorism, and here's what I dont understand, why do Republicans think of the destruction they caused the entire United States Economy was some kind of a "success" for them to stand on, and then repeat?
Obama/Biden 2012
I'm no Republican but why do extreme liberals think that being hateful and unpleasant is a good thing? I think it really hurts their cause. Unbelieveable.
oldhamletman,
"the real story is how much better Clint was than Romney... which is sad...."
In my opinion, the one who really upstaged Romney was Marco Rubio. It's too bad he isn't running for president. I thought his speech was much better than Romney's. At least I think he would have a better chance than Romney.
This "Eastwooding" and "InvisibleObama" twitter handle trend is the funniest @!$%# I've seen in awhile. LOL.
American Girl,
"Republicans NEVER take responsibility for any of their failures"
No, they don't, and yet they are always the ones who insist on the need for taking personal responsibility for one's actions; as long as it is someone else who takes personal responsibility, and not them.
Thanks DrowningGrover. I will look it up. Love great humor.
Symbolic of the whole GOP... senile G.reedy O.lde P.eople talking to an empty chair...
TO: Bob465 who wrote:
Either you have confused "liberals" with "right wing nut jobs" or you haven't been listening for the past 3-1/2 years that Republicans have been doing NOTHING BUT constantly repeating their hate speech and talking points nonstop. So, don't pee on our shoes and try to tell us it's raining, Bob. You have to be a Republican to make up the lie that liberals are the ones that have been "hateful", because that would certainly be an oxymoron.
By sheer viture of the fact that we are called "liberals" implies that we are much too free, gracious and kind, which are some of the things Republicans hate the most about "liberals". We're much too "peace loving" to suit the rowdy warmongers.
Obama/Biden 2012
Obama/Biden 2012
I think Eastwood was the perfect way to end the Republican National Convention. He has great schtick and I encourage him to go on with this new part of his career in comedy.
Obama/Biden 2012, and bring up Debbie Wasserman Schultz into a higher position.
I'll bet they think twice before the jump Clint Eastwood over a car commercial again! Whew! Way to get even Clint. You made my day!
It must suck to be Mitt Romney!
Obama/Biden 2012
My only regret is that SNL is in the off season. But John Stewart should be great to watch!
All you folks who think Clint is a senile old man are extremely ignorant! There is a thing in Hollywood that actors have done for centuries on stage and on screen, it's called AD-LIBBING the moment. Many movies we see, especially comedies, contain many moment of ad-libbing. Jeff Dunham ad-libs every time he walks on stage, although he has a prop (much like the empty chair) with Peanut, Walter or any of the characters he has. He argues with the characters but in reality he argues with himself.
As for Clint Eastwoods speech I thought it was funny as h3ll but at the same time too the point and thought provoking. And, if ya'll noticed, Clint didn't have cards or teleprompters, which means he AD LIBBED the entire speech, but from his heart. It is time to Let Go of BO for not doing what he promised in 2008. He made 576 promises to the American people that he would see in his 1st term and so far he hasn't hit anywhere near 100, and then he changed those around a lot.
So Liberals, get a life see the funny in fun, don't shoot a man down because he is old. Eastwood still has a clear mind and a certain wit about him the made me laugh and lightened my day a bit. He still pumps out great movies as a director and an actor.
Either that or you folks have something against us old folks!
-President Barack Obama
Great response by the President of the United States of America.
TO: njofaustin who wrote:
The guy is 82 years old.
If he's not "senile" he certainly seemed to be "borderline" at best.
I guess Republicans couldn't find anybody younger or funnier, so Republicans stuck with elder abuse and pushed old Clint out there.
Obama/Biden 2012
Didn't Republicans not long ago chastise him for supporting the auto industry bailout in a commercial?
My, they have short memories!
I think this was Clint's homage to Ralph Ellison's "INVISIBLE MAN."
If not, then I think it was Clint getting even for the smack he got from the GOP over his Superbowl car commercial.
Either way, it made my day.
NOBODY is talking about Romney. EVERYBODY is talking about Eastwood.
"Well, do ya feel lucky....chair? Well, do ya?"
Obama/Biden 2012 "This seat is taken."
It's true.
The old white men of
the
GOP
hear voices
in their
head.
Well, Grover Nordquist said that all Republicans want is someone who can sign his name onto whatever Nordquist has already written.
Last night, Mitt Robme looked like that kind of a clueless empty suit.
Obama/Biden 2012
Too bad my copy of PhotoShop is outdated. Will somebody please put together a series of: Clint talking to a tree. Clint talking to a sandwich. Clint talkig to a bucket. See where I'm going here... All that was missing was Clint yelling "You damn kids get off of my lawn!".
Or....maybe Clint was getting ready for his Broadway debut in the revival of "HARVEY".
Elwood P. Dowd lives!
Obama/Biden 2012
So...... we should listen to a rich millionaire movie star to tell us who we should vote for eh and completely ignore what the republicans beening doing since Obama got elected? Stomp their feet and veto every single bills that goes through?
He could only top that performance if he did it again with a sock puppet instead of an empty chair.
Obama/Biden 2012
I guess you're listening to other rich movie stars tell you how to vote...Tom Cruise maybe, and ignore what Obama hasn't been doing since he got elected? Talk about a whack job.
Well, had-enough, you libs do it all the time! From Bill Maher and his $1 million campaign contribution, to Rosie O'Donnel and her loudmouth, George Clooney and his million dollar parties, the Dem/Libs parade the celebs like some sort of side show.....and that makes your comment really weak!
BRAVO CLINT!!!!!
How appropriate.
An empty chair for our empty suit POTUS.
It's reassuring the great minds of Hollywood are starting to come around and realize what a horrible mistake 2008 was.
Of course the limp-wristed Libbies panties are all bunched up as Clint made an absolute fool of Barrack Hussein without him even being there. They'll all be on here insulting and berating Clint and we all know if he had done this to Romney he would be a genius and irrefutable.
This is the dark and empty void that the Liberal mind exists in. As our economy collapses their concerns are directed at tax returns and some bimbo's needs for birth control pills so she can bang her way through college.
It's time to evict the trespasser who has been embarrassing us in our White House. We need a real leader who understands that our nation was built on the shoulders of free market principles, not "The Life of Julia".
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans
Obama to Eastwood ... who really is sitting in a chair and could answer back ... did you back Bush 100% and vote for Palin ... and why ..............
An old fart living the good life ... not taking responsibility for sending young men to their deaths and at the same time putting the U.S economy in the dumps ... the GOP ... sickening at best!!!!!
skip Nicholson, Oklahoma City
Psssstttt Skippy, Clint was talking about a sock puppet in that empty chair.
Try to keep up Skipster.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans
Funny how on the NBC Corporate Mainstain Media it's Wacky For Romney but nothing but I got bin NOBODY for Obama?
Well I for one will NOT meekly be forced to live in the Coming Wall Street Created UN Controlled Gray State or be forced to eat their UN Corporate Soylent Green while being UN Educated or put into their UN Army Civilian Labor Camps.....For the already UN Educated......Google it.....Re-Educate Yourself for once.....just for "Giggles"!
No matter WHO the next Wall Street Puppet In Chief is.......
America......We may not have much of a choice left to US anymore but we can choose to Refuse To Reward ANY Corporate Owned Wall Street Corrupted Criminals....Refuse To Re-Elect ANY Incumbent in 2012.
If they are a Democratic Incumbent....Vote for the Republican!
If they are a Republican Incumbent....Vote for the Democratic!
That way we can get Rid of POMPUS Obama, Parrot Reid (as Majority Leader anyway) and the Big Boehner ....all at once in 2012!
Then let US send Obama, Bush & Cheney to the Hague for Not War Crimes in 2013!
"Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." ~George Orwell, 1984
Hilarious to see all these bitter and jealous liberals so bent out of shape over Clint Eastwood's speech!
Are they jealous of his success or just anti-Senior???
Thank freakin' goodness the liberals on this thread are only .0000000001% of the population. I said to my hubby last night as I'm laughing my a$$ off, "the liberals are going to be flipping their lids tomorrow", and here we sit! How predictable.... HAHA!
I know what it is!
Liberals cannot STAND other people's happiness.
They seethe when they see how much the Romneys' love their family, their God, their country and their lives!
To see a self-made success like Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan or Condi Rice BURNS their blood!
To watch Clint have 15,000 Americans there, and millions at home, in hysterics at his creative blistering of our teleprompter President gets them SO DARN ANGRY.
Ann Romney raising five boys to be sharp, young men as a stay-at-home mom who loves her husband makes veins pop out of their head!
How dare those evil Republicans have so much darn FUN!!!
The outlaw Josie Fails
All I can say is people in this country have totally lost their sense of humor! Honest to God people you really need to take a long hard look in the mirror and re-evaluate your life. If its that miserable that you cannot find the humor in this man's speech something is terribly wrong with you.
Mark L--- Did Mr Bush inherit a budget surplus or deficit? Did Mr Obama inherit a budget surplus or deficit?
The only reason why Obama did not inherit a 'sustained high unemployment' as it was galloping higher each week under Mr Bush before it got 'sustained'
Cuts to defence are weakening of the country.. really? Do canada, sweden, denmark or even the UK have to spend this much to keep themselves safe? The defence budget is unjustifiable, while people are struggling for basic neccisities. A society with unequal opportunities is a bigger risk to this country
Just loved Clint Eastwood! He might be getting old, but he nailed Obama for being a loser. Who is going to show up for Obama? Cher, to show off her plastic surgery's, Eva Langoria, looking for another husband, Clooney the looney? Wait I got it, Sarah Jessica Parker, I live in a make believe world so vote for Obama. You Libs are just pathetic people and I hope you all move out of the country when President Romney takes the reins. ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
It's amusing reading the little limp-wristed Libbies comments.
Of course the outrage is being pointed at Clint Eastwood. Their little ego's have been crushed as a Hollywood titan exposes the emptiness of our current Imposter in Chief. The metaphor is overwhelmed by the reality of a president AWOL from his responsibility. And of course the Barrack Hussein camp "Tweets" some old picture of him sitting in a chair claiming "This seat's taken".
ROTFLMAO!!!!
He hasn't met with his Cabinet or Jobs Council since 1/17/2012. He hasn't passed a budget for 1,220 days. He hasn't improved the economy for his whole term. He can claim this seat's taken, but inaction speaks louder than words.
This empty chair is symbolic. Symbolic of an empty presidency that would rather berate success and promote mediocrity. Ridicule the successful and advocate dependency. Pander to minorities promising them more Bread and Circuses rather than real jobs.
Barrack Hussein is a failure. There is no metric that can refute this fact. The hysteria has waned and the misery has been experienced. It’s time to do what our Declaration of Independence demands of us,,,
As Clint so eloquently stated, “And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.”
No truer words can be spoken.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans
What I find funny is if Clint would have been on the democrat side and backing Obama, they all would be singing praises about him.
Personally, I do not care about his politics, which side he is on. He is a great actor and director, I admire him for who he is and his many accomplishments. With age comes wisdom.
It wasn't funny. There's no need to find some "lost sense of humor" because it just wasn't funny. It was disgraceful, and insulting to the President of the USA. The failing white actor put words into the invisible black man's mouth, some very vulgar and disrespectful words.
The reality of President Obama is a very thoughtful representative of the American people and would never be heard by anyone speaking in such a way out of respect for YOU, the American citizen.
That's the GOP's tone all along, no respect for the American people.
No care for the American People.
...and with no condemnation of Fox News for outing SEAL Team 6's "Mark Owen"
Treasonous al Qaeda assistants - giving them the real name and place of the man who shot bin Laden.
I too, never miss a Clint movie. But last night he got a trifecta; an empty head talking to an empty chair about an empty suit.
"What I find funny is if Clint would have been on the democrat side and backing Obama, they all would be singing praises about him."
No, KevenT. I don't think it had anything to do with politics, at least for me it didn't. It's just as boogablue said, it just wasn't funny. I kept waiting for it to get funny, but it just never did.
latisharma
A deficit, why?
Unless you’re one of those buffoons that believes in the mythical “Clinton surplus”. If there was a surplus why was there no reduction in any year’s debt following the previous year? Because there was no surplus. It was just typical Washington smoke and mirrors manipulating the Public Debt and Intragovernmental Holdings. Every president has been doing it since LBJ changed the accounting method for the Social Security Trust Fund allowing it to be included in the General Fund so he could make the Vietnam War appear less costly.
What Mr. Bush DID inherit, however, was a severe recession when the dot-com bubble finally popped and then 9/11 happened.
Well, you’ll have to ask the Democrats who controlled Congress from 2007 through 2010. I’m sure they can tell you how they screwed that mess up.
Psssttt, none of those nations have a population over 62 million people. Try to keep up Sparky.
The defense budget is VERY justifiable. You do realize it’s one of the 18 Enumerated Powers our Constitution demands our government is responsible for, right?
What is UNJUSTIFIABLE and unsustainable is our $220 trillion of Unfunded Liabilities.
We do have equal opportunities, what you Libbies confuse that with is equal outcomes. That’s what is a bigger risk to our country.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans
Booger...the POTUS is disgraceful, that was simply the truth. You, and others like you, get your panties in a wad over the truth and call it hate or disrespect...get over it and try some truth!
...and who outed what?!? The POTUS was only too happy to out/leak COMSEC and OPSEC info that would have an enlisted grunt making little rocks out of big rocks for years. Your piece of @!$%# in office is after reelection without any thought to the consequences to REAL Americans fighting and dying in foreign countries.
Not one of the liberals was capable of understanding the metaphor that Clint used. They danced around and whined and claimed he was old and crazy and what all, and what he did was so over their heads that they will never figure it out (well, it was explained but still.) It was damned funny and spot-on. As to the current crop of Clint bashers, do you honesty think he gives a sh!t about what you think?
As to Obama's response, that was funny too. Time for a bit of levity, the bashing is getting real old and dirty campaigns are ever so tiring, boring and downright stupid. Talk about facts or the plans of the candidates, when a campaign descends to the levels that this one has, kinda make you wonder what they have to offer besides dirt.
I can't WAIT to see Romney win the election and FAIL at everything he said he could do better than Obama!!!
Most Libs I run into have absolutely no sense of humor 8) and to degrade and disrespect Clint because of his age just shows how mentally insane liberals are heartless, no respect for elders and just useless windbags.
Liberals you do not control this country you will feel the wrath from the moderates and independents come this November.
He should have put the orangutan in the chair...
that is not funny, and, if intentional, we really don't need to see it.
in case you thought he meant obama was a monkey by that i doubt he did, but who knows. i think he meant the orangutan from clint's any which way but loose movie.
Poor, poor Mittens. His convention didn't quite go as they planned. Rmoney thinks if he says the same lie over and over again we will forget it's a lie. Clint Eastwood may forget come November, but Americans will not.
Willard, your pants are on fire!
KK-487097: I thought it was obvious.... Any Which But Loose and Any Which Way You Can - the orangutan was named Clyde. "Right turn, Clyde!"
I dunno, I thought the convention went pretty well. Clint's speech was better than any Biden has ever given. I'm an independent and I am voting for Mitt. Obama has truly been a terrible president. Open your eyes and look around. 8% unemployment and not getting any better. Obama had his chance and did nothing. I hope for a change this time around. Romney/Ryan 2012.
I have always like Eastwood. But he should have stay out of this. He caught hell when he made that Add for Chrysler. Remember when the Dixi Chic's made that remark about Little Bush? the RNC destroyed them for that. Someone said we need a hero right now. Well Clint, That could have been you, but no you are for a guy that don't know the meaning of Hero. Mitt Romney is the anti Hero. He is a bully that made his millions by steeling it from working people. People that worked for years just to have good old Mitt come in and buy up there company and steel there retirement money. There money they were going to retire on and live there golden years. Romney stole that money and then didn't pay tax on it and hide the money offshore. That is what a thief dose. We not only need a hero right now, But we need to come together behind our Hero Barack Obama and elect a real democrat congress and senate, then we can get this country moving again. We also need to put it to a national vote to out law lobbing. the only way we will ever get a Representative government back. Right now the only ones that are being representative are the rich. The thing is our votes only count if we can stop the people we vote in don't just get bought off by rich people, to vote the way they want them to vote.
Mitt Robme was just as sheepish as I thought he would be, and I wouldn't think that he has ANY kind of a powerful or influential presence, nor could Robme stand up to the Industrial Military Compex.
He didn't give ANY insight into HIS vision of the future for the Aemrican People, nor did he reveal any ideas he has about foreign policy, or domestic policy, or ANY policy. Nothing!
I'm not one that would agree to put all of our trust and faith in CORPORATIONS to do the right thing for the American People.
All I saw last night was a guy who wants to be President for no particular reason.
Robme never has been any good at creating "Jobs"! He came in 47th out of 50 in job creation, and he never held a job in life.
Obama/Biden 2012
He did all that and more! 4 years ago we put an empty chair to work as POTUS, all his promises - trash, debt - at record levels, still in Afghanistan - lie again. Nope voted for a good speaker - with teleprompter, lots of Hope and Change. But in the end he was just a Fast and Furious gun running liar.
Those poor dissilusioned FOOLS. Rommel will gut whatever progress has been made like a flopping fish on the dock and pocket the spoils with his pals at the republicanCrimeCartel while he sends the unemployment rate up to 45% except for $7.00 slavery "jobs". FOOLS...Be careful what you wish for. Rommel is Count Dracula and you FOOLS are asking him to guard the National BloodBank. And Clint!!! What is wrong with you! besides advancing old FOOLS Age?? How'd Rommel get you in his Hip Pocket?? Aww' Got's ta' Know!!!!...What about it Calahan??? You were a Good Guy, Now you CoffinDown with the Count!!! What happened???
Of course I was talking about Clyde, the orangutan from Every which way but Loose movie, playing the part of Obama in that chair. Would have been funny as hell.
I have taught acting for nearly 30 years. I have students on Broadway and in movies. I would say that Mr. Eastwood's performance was worthy for an acting, or improvisation class, but was inappropriate for a political convention. Romney also gave an interesting performance. He was believable when it came to his family and his parents, but the rest came across as very poor acting. He did not appear to believe his own words. You could see the changes in his eyes and voice when it came to things like foreign affairs, taking care of the poor, the elderly and the economy. I wouldn't cast him in my next play and I certainly wouldn't vote for him for president.
"He should have put the orangutan in the chair..."
Really? You must have been the one at the RNC throwing peanuts at the African American CNN camera lady and calling her "an animal". Your comment well explains Republican rage at Obama. We've had plenty of liberal presidents and there was never this much hate...but when the black liberal dude showed up and won the oval office, Republicans became unhinged! Shows their true "colors". And I don't mean ethnicity, I'm talking about their true colors of hypocrisy, racism, lack of empathy for the poor, war mongering, deceitfulness, lying, and forcing the middle class to pay more, so they don't have to! Then they accuse the unemployed as being lazy and not looking for work while they ship thousands of jobs to India and Mexico and Indonesia for dirt cheap labor...all the while screaming "In God we trust"! Last I checked, God's face was not on the hundred dollar bill! Yup, put the businessman in charge cuz cousin Mitt's gonna get you a job...in China!
I don't hold the Democrats blameless, but it was this kind of "monkey", "witch doctor", "he's a socialist", "let the poor starve and the uninsured get sick and die", talk from the right that turned me off and away from the Republican party. They talk the Christian talk, but don't walk the Christian walk. They like to invoke the name of the Lord, but their hearts are far, far from Him!!
ummm, he meant the orangutan from the Any Which Way But Loose Movies. Relax, take a breath, we're not all hate filled war mongers. However, your tirade does exhibit some of those traits that you casted upon us.
have a great day. Relax....
Wait a minute! What's that in the picture with Clint? Isn't that one of those teleprompter screens? You mean the great bard of the silver screen didn't commit his "lines" to memory? I guess after troting a first term governor of the state with the smallest population last time they figured they would go with a one term mayor of a very wealthy extremely small artist enclave town. What does wiki say about Mr. Make My Day?
Sound like a Republican to you? I have to wonder if grandpa actually knew where he was last night? I guess since they couldn't get Charlton Heston they settled for Clint. Dirty Harry would have been a great pick if this was 1972!
Less go. You have hit the nail right on the head. I have never seen such Hippocrates as the Rep's and the So called Christian Conservatives. What a crock! Not one of these people know what it is to be a Christian or a Conservative. Just saying one is a Christian or a Conservative dose not make you either. I do not claim to be a Good Christian, and I am not a Conservative for even a second. I do not go to church anymore because I got sick of these so called Christians that think they are better the others because they go to Church every Sunday. But not one of them would do one thing to help there fellow man. Who do they think they are fooling. To they think they are fooling the Lord? NOT. Do they think they are fooling there fellow man, NOT. The only one they are fooling is them. Most of these Churches today only want well to do people in their Church's. They don't want to help the poor like Jesus would do, and did. I do not claim to be a Christian, But I am more Christian then all them put together. I have had the riches. But that is not what did it for me. Me living up in that big house looking down on others. I have seen what it did to my kids. We can all live well if we all work together. Back in my younger days, people that were better off worked 80 hr a week, that is why they had more money. But they didn't steel it from others like Mitt did. and he will stand there and look you right in the eye and say he earned his money honestly. Honestly.....Really. And someone complains about the kids in the movements. Am I crazy or was Capitalism when Henry Ford Started the first assembly line. That was capitalism. This Great American knew that if he could pay his workers a fair wage, they could afford to drive a Ford, own a home and live the american dream. I look at Ford today and the way they treat there workers. William Ford Jr, is right down there every day and talk's with the people, and they love that man. That is what Capitalism is all about.
I bet the orangutan knows how to go f*ck himself.
duckmano
I dunno, I thought the convention went pretty well. Clint's speech was better than any Biden has ever given.
Biden is next in the succession line - how F'n scary is that?
@LetsGo - if it is any comfort to you, I considered GW Bush to be a chipmunk, but this orangutan reference has nothing to do with me being a racist. I just thought that Clint talking to a chair was not funny enough, and Clint talking to an ape would have had far more appeal than the 'go ahead, make my day, punk' line.
I like Clint a lot, even as I do not share his sympathy for that weasel Romney. And no, I do not support that billygoat Obama.
Actually Devil's son, He did not use the teleprompter that is why it was so rambling(part of the reason why anyway) But Romney and Ryan sure did use one. Kinda makes all those teleprompter comments about Obama look pretty foolish. I wonder what all the righties who have given Obama a hard time for the teleprompter were thinking?
Clint Eastwood is a good actor, and a great director. He has his opinion. Let's hope for all of us who are not part of the rich "good old boys" circle, that Romney does NOT get elected. I never thought I would be able to say this, but Romney is worse than Bush. He is the puppet that the "monied elite" have chosen to keep things going their way. No middle of the road. Only the rich will prophet from this clown. Who ever saw to it that such a clown got to be a candidate for these United States are getting their pockets lined if we elect Romney as the president. I am a Democrat and I say we. We have to get out and vote. If Romney gets elected, it is because we did not get up and do our duty to see that Obama is re-elected.
Romneyismynightmare,
Wouldja believe these wonk's are still at the Obama/teleprompter thing on this very post? And some people wonder why Reps are so out of sync with the rest of the world. In answer to your final question. as usual, they weren't thinking anything at all. They were waiting until Romney's speech was over so FoxNews could tell them what to think.
Quit your whinning libretards! I'm sure when the DNC rolls around the libbies will have someone like Alec Baldwin or Sean Penn to deliver an extremely mean spirited monolog about Mitt's religion or Ann's battle with cancer and MS.... sure to have you rolling with laughter in your spilt beer and 'popcorn'!
Sorry, Jim but to make fun of someone's disablity would not be acceptable on either side. I, for one like Anne Romney she seems like a nice and caring individual. I do not want her husband to become the president but I have no problem with her or who she is. Now I know your brain is probably having a hard time dealing with a nonconservative that has praise for Romneys wife, I challenge any of you righties to do the same for Michelle.
I watched it. It was hilarious for Independents. But it must be terrible for Obamaites.
who's vote did it sway? It's sad that what Clint Eastwood said carry the news cycle over the nominees speech!!!
if anyone it was terrible for romney. eastwood seemed to be going senile.
He only reinforced the image of Republicans as male pale and stale!
Terrible for Obamaites? You must be kidding! It was the only speech that was not tightly scripted by the 28 billionaires!
As an Obamanite, I thought it was pretty funny (kind of like a SNL skit). But then, it seemed to match the theme of the entire convention, which was also pretty funny (kind of like a SNL skit).
Shyam-WOW!
Of course "Obamaites" found it hilarious.... a RNC speaker opening for Mitt was having a debate with a chair for 10 minutes and lost.... it doesn't get more comedic than that....
As for Romney's speech...How bout less why Obama should be fired and more why Romeny should be hired?.. because nobody can seem to tell me that part.
Poor Poor Poor Clint... Led to the rostrum to do the bidding for the republicanCrimeCartelSoldier MittTaxPittanceRommel. Has Dirty Harry Really Gotton Dirty??? Clint, Wake Up! you're Bedding Down With Count Dracula in his coffin!!!! Stop Being A silly Old Fool and Bring Back Harry Calahan who is a Valiant Knight Whacking criminals like the RepublicanCrimeCartel and Mitt Tax Pittance Rommel!!!!! OMG of all people, Clint has become mental Lint!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Pathetic Dementia Old Fool!!
This "Obamanite" just felt bad for the guy. A brilliant career in acting and directing, and this bizarre speech will be his capstone. He barely seemed to know where he was.
-courtesy of Jim Silver 2.22 (collapsed post)
I find it sad when someone suffering from senility makes a public fool of themselves, give it up Clint.
Eastwood was the only funny person in that entire comedy called the 2012 RNC. I love the way he told Rmoney to contort his anatomy in a manner not mormanly possible by most people while, he pretended to be passing a message from the President. Very clever indeed!
And I loved his attempt at trying to intimidate those in his audience who might be inclined to vote for Rmoney by using that old movie line 'Go ahead, make my day!' Priceless!
Hey, is my spell checker working? Anybody?
Yeah, and for a few dollars more, they could have had Leno.
Just another example of how the GOP is the party of out-of-touch old white men.
I am voting Eastwood for president... screw Obama and Romney. He stole the show at the RNC!
I prefer skits where the answers come from the actual people - the way Samantha Bee did. Wow, now that was real funny! "My Individual Liberty ends where my uterus begins?" Hysterically funny, and yet, ...not.
It was hilarious. It was even better the second time around. I've seen 3 different take offs of it in my facebook today. The chair has a life of its own now. This speech won't go away.
I saw Clint Eastwood attempt a comedy routine, ... of talking to an empty chair,
followed by Mitt Romney's spot-on portrayal, ... of an empty suit.
Did I miss something????
(I knew I should have watched 'Seinfeld' reruns, instead. Dang!
Every time I think of a Republican, I think of an old man talking to a chair.
Clint's approach was creative and AWESOME.....The liberals need to get a sense of humor .......and a thicker skin if they're going to follow the GOP convention. What did they expect from him ? Praise?
Oh, I don't think the liberals are lacking sense of humor. I'm pretty sure they found Clint's "speech" hilarious. I mean, come on. He was rambling to a chair for ten minutes.
I am sorry but that speech made absolutely no sense. Hahahahahaha. How can that be something great for the Repukes? Will he be handling foreign policy for Mitt. LOL
Starfox,
DO you have anything up there or just love Welfare??
Crybaby liberals......posting from their mommas basement again.
"Thickerskin if you’re going to follow the GOP convention" WHAT? All I heard was
lies. PValds, I have a sense of humor, the GOP convention was a JOKE. Then they
bring poor old Clint up there. It was sad. I sorry to say, if this is the best you can do...
Here's the thing, PV - everyone is talking about Clint this morning, not the GOP Nominee's speech. That's just not good news for Romney. Another completely unforced error, in a long string of them.
On a side note, I think liberals (like everyone else) is getting more than just a chuckle out of 'Eastwooding'.
If you want LIES.. Just tune in for the Demonomic Convention ..You will hear more of the LIES you have been hearing for the last 4 years..
CLINT did a fantastic job of potraying Obama for just what he is!!!!!!!!!!!!A FAILURE. GROW up SHEEPLES. "WAKE UP"
Gordanfan24 - you are without any doubt a delusional moron. And debating with you, would be just like debating with that empty chair... completely pointless.
That is why the "chair" thing is going to be such a classic!
Gordan, if I wanted lies I would just watch Paul Ryan's speech again. It's sad when even fox news calls him out.
That's right TJ585 ! It's almost fun to watch Lyin' Ryan and the backpeddling he does after each speech.
It just struck me. The Rep's have been stuck on Reagan. All they can say that Ron Reagan was the great hero of the Rep party. Well Mitt is no Ron Reagan, Not even close. But although I respect Ron Reagan but what he did is bankrupt this country, Sure he dismantled the USSR, But was that such a good thing? and we all know his trickle down Crap didn't work. And we also know he spawned the Licks of Dick Cheney, and Rumsfeld. And I Mean no disrespect to young Ron Reagan. but the truth is Ron Sr. was in the begging stages of Alzheimer. In all reality he should have never ran for a second term. But we did try his trickle down theory. It didn't work. So why would we try it again. That is the meaning of insanity. Trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. All that accomplished was to make rich people richer. That is all it will do again, is make rich people richer, while the rest suffer. Is that what they call Capitalism, Take from the poor and give to the rich. Is that free market, when the people at the top fix the prices like Gas, food, housing, rent and now wages. I have always thought it is wrong that farmers do all the work, and made the least. People that work for a living do all the work and the people at the top make all the money. Does anyone think the CEO deserve all the money they make. What ever happened to earning a honest living. These people get these huge bonuses for running a company into the ground. But the Unions must be busted. If that is capitalism then it is wrong. Romney or anyone else should not be able to buy a company that has a fully funded retirement program, and then steel that money. That should not be legal. Not in the America I know and love. That first and foremost is what is wrong with this country.
Republicans seem proud of their guy for rebuking Obama and pointing out all that he has done wrong..................My, my it is sure easy to distract these people from the fact that Romney never answers SPECIFIC questions about what he would do except for some generalities of reducing everyone's taxes and balancing the budget at the same time...........This man promised everything except for a free vacation in the Caymans for everyone in the country with no PLAN for accomplishing anything..........except the old "trust me" I have a plan.............so secret btw I can't reveal it to anyone...........even myself.
I find this statement quite humorous considering former President Clinton is being brought out before the crowds at the Democrat convention. You are right, Romney is no Reagan, but Obama is not even close to Clinton.
Silly posts continue. For our Republican friends here telling Obama supporters to move out of the USA, you might want to consider the irony in such a statement. Residents of the USA who do not want Obama as president are in the minority. America has voted, and the majority chose Obama. Republican's are often quick to take pride in their hatred toward minorities in the USA, yet many don't seem to get that they, as a Republican, are a minority in our country.
Tough guy talk about taking back the country is a little too little too late. You lost it long ago. You may recall that the last time a Republican was elected, he did not have the popular vote, he won by grace of the electoral college. In the next election, Obama won by a landslide with the popular vote. In other words, this is America, the majority of Americans have spoken and chosen Obama. Telling the majority to leave is silly...ain't gonna happen. You are outnumbered. Your only choice at this point is to move out of the country yourselves, otherwise to "take it back" you'll need to declare civil war against the majority of Americans and give it your best shot to take it back by force against the magority of America's residents and the greatest military force in the world.
This is so hilarious. Nothing would be funnier except roasting rich kids alive on spits, after basting with them butter and throwing Oregano on them. Their screams during roasting would just be the delicious icing on the cake. LOL. LOL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe8jJBoEmuY
Chunk,
That is true and why it is so sad. The current GOP would be way too far right for Regan. He would be an Independent compared to where they are now, if not a Moderate Democrat. They also have forgotten that he raised taxes seven times.
As for Clint, I did not watch his speech however this will provide Colbert and Stewart and all the other political comedians with a ton of material. The fact that Clint was trending over Romney is not a good thing either, as others have mentioned.
Chuck*
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This liberal found Eastwood "skit" funny. I don't think it helped Romney any. Did Romney speak after that? I missed it. I watched "Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell," FX's new show. Also very funny. I'll watch the Romney speech in the middle of the day when I can at least try to stay awake.
Way to go Clint,the only problem that I could see with the skit was there was no teleprompter in front of the chair.What if anything has obama done for this country that was a benefit? He,s put in more czars than Russia had,put people in his cabinet ,that should not be there(holder,gietner,napalitano and two bleeding heart liberal supreme court justices that should not be there.Keeps one on the bench that should be tried for treason(our constitution is outdated should be replaced with one like south africa,ruth bader ginsburg)And let,s not forget our leader?making deals with the Russians on a open mike for after his reelection,his trying to get rid of freedom of speech and taking away of Americans to bear arms.Backing Fast and Furious eric holder and batf selling guns to drug cartels as ruse to get rid of guns in the USA that lead to murder border patrol agent Brian Terry and at least 300 Mexican nationals.obama hasn,t quit campaigning since he was elected. He gets 4 more years and nobody will recognize what was once a great country.GOD BLESS THE United STATES OF AMERICA
Last night was a poor example of what the republicans can do for our country. As for Clint he looked like a fool. Romney we do not care about your religion we care about what you are going to do to make the country better. Obama is a much smarter man that you will ever be he just has not had enough time to correct the mistakes that the last republican did to our country. All you have done is run a smear campaign because you don't know any better and you call yourself a morman. What a joke if you have so much money help the country out and stop trying to make the rich richer. You need to get a life. I will not be voting for you and I will make sure I encourage all my friends to do the same. Go run your crooked businesses. OBAMA 2012
what has obama done for this country except bury it in debt run it into the ground?
Personally I found what Mr. Eastwood did was funny and chances are that in his head Obuma has said what Mr. Eastwood implied. That being said it does not matter to me what either party says or does I made up my mind as to who I am voting for and am sooooo sick of politics I want to puke, so the comedy last while unique was needed. Hey we have put up with a big joke for 3 1/2 years so what is the matter with a 10 minute joke?
I get the joke! I finally get the joke!!
It's funny because an old man is talking to an empty chair and at the same time politically stumping for an empty suit of a candidate!
HILARIOUS!
Took you awhile and you still got it wrong.
Eastwood's speech was great ! Obviously caught everyone's attention. Obama lied to all of us during his 2008 duel for the White House. NOTHING he said has been fulfilled. Like Mr Eastwood portrayed, Obama is like talking to an empty chair. I pray to God we survive what he has ruined. GOD BLESS MY COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Obama's promises were not lies. He just did not count on having a bunch of Republicans slap down everything he tried to do for the country. Do your homework nutcases. They plotted from the moment he took the oath. To hell with the people, to hell with the country...defeat Obama. That was their plan. Will their outrageous lies work? When I read Flapjaw's remarks it is scary. He must watch FOX. People like him don't even know they are lies and don't seem to know that the Republican voter suppression project is real. Shame on you!!!
Personally, I loved Clint Eastwood. It was hilarious. Nothing better than seeing another Republican fall flat on his face. HE SURE MADE MY DAY. LOL Now we know why they call him DIRTY HARRY. Too bad this tipsy old man did not know there were children present when he opened his filthy mouth.
Ya gotta love Eastwood, an icon in Hollywood and so was Linda Lovelace. I thought it was pretty funny but It's not going to change any thinking persons mind. I wonder about Clint's decision making process taking on the roll of a bafoon, I guess it was just meant to be entertainment, and it was that.
Those GOP stuff shirts/suits have no sense of humor. They seemed to be having such a good time during the hurricane. I wonder what made Paul Ryan squirm.
I can't wait to see if the President will set up an empty chair for Romney at the Democratic convention. Maybe the possibility of that repeat act is what made Paul Ryan squirm.
mr eastwood "made my day"!
the patsy---
i'm not sure which promises you speak of but you are wong in thinking the repubs wanted a failure for a pres and failing economy and high unemployment for our country. no one wants that for our country no matter who's in office.
and what did obama try to do that repubs slapped down?
cottoncat--Those GOP stuff shirts/suits have no sense of humor
did you hear the applause and laughter? ha ha ha....come nov look who's crying.
vote nobama 2012
tired of the new broke!
Eastwood did a very good job of making himself look like a ridiculous, senile old man. I agree that speech represents the Republicans well; totally delusional and raving at non-existent issues.
@gunfsafety: Bush put it in debt. Despite the lies of the Republican, Obama has actually been setting the policies in place that will get American out of debt in a timely manner, and unlike the Republicans, he will not destroy the Middle Class to do it.
An empty seat would have been better for America than buttwheats sorry a** sitting in it.
Can't wait until I never have to hear another lecture from this useless slug.
Hahahahaha. I see the racial tweets are starting already. Go back to where ever your ancestors dragged your sorry a** from. We do not need you here!!!
racist...... you meant to say 'buckwheat'..... and is step n fechit .... tea party cracker
billsf,
"racist...... you meant to say 'buckwheat'..... and is step n fechit .... tea party cracker"
And yet if you ask them, they will insist that racism has nothing to do with their hatred of Obama. I think Blonde Coyote just put an end to that lie.
"He meant to say"?? Well he DIDN'T SAY. Meanwhile, you said "cracker".
So who's the real racist, moron?
Laker Steve,
"He meant to say"?? Well he DIDN'T SAY. Meanwhile, you said "cracker".
I think we all know who the real racist is. It isn't necessary to say it in so many words. A nod and a wink is sufficient to let one's fellow racists know what you mean. The ol' boy network understands.
I could tell Clint wrote his own lines. It was Dirty Harry all the way.
That's how Rmoney would have looked without using the TELEPROMPTER!
Speaking of the Teleprompter, did anyone catch Romney's practice session before the speech? He was making sure he could see what his people had written for him to say. Funny how the Repugs used to ridicule Obama for using a prompter, isn't it?
wait, he used a teleprompter? the thing republicans have been whining about obama using? is he becoming a socialist or just trying to be more like reagan, who also used one?
Mitt will not be using teleprompters in 4th grade classrooms.
Sam, are you saying he's going back to his missionary work?
well, four years ago katie couric was talking to sarah palin's empty head.
all that was missing was clint throwing peanuts at the chair afterwards....that certainly woulda brought cheers from all those in attendance.
If Katie Curic was talking to Sarah Palin than the empty head was on Curic's shoulders, not Palin's
Hey Gordan: THEN, not than. If you're going to try to be a sm@rt @ss, try being SMART first.
TO: Gordanfan24 who wrote:
Ha! Republicans are still trying to paint their two biggest losers as success stories:
Sarah "The Bimbo" Palin, and George "Curveball" Bush!
Tickle!
Obama/Biden 2012
Yeah Gordon, sure. Like none of us actually saw that empty headed blow hard stumble through that interview. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, it was so sad. I actually felt sorry for that woman. Of course that was before we knew her very well.
Since your last post seemed to express some doubt as to who was struggling, I'm referring to Sarah Palin. Just so we're clear.
Only "two biggest losers"? Hehehehehe
Obama/Biden 2012
The only "two biggest losers" I see are...Obama/Biden.
"Do you still feel the same way you did when Obama won"...hmm.
Fine mess the US is in. Not that Obama made the mess, but he sure hasn't helped.
Romney/Ryan 2012
This was the CNN Money headline in Bush's last month of office:
Job loss: Worst in 34 years
Employers slashed 598,000 more jobs in January as unemployment rate climbed to 7.6%.
Here was last month's number from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 163,000 in July.
The only way the GOP can win is LIE!
STOP THE PRESSES!
It appears, for the first time, a Republican has admitted Mr. Bush's fault for the economic crisis!
And I quote:
"Fine mess the US is in. Not that Obama made the mess..."- No. 7
Thank you, No.7, for being at least one honest Republican!
Perhaps now the rest of Mr. Bush's Teflon will begin to slough off in the eyes of the faithful and they, too, can see the colossal failure his "presidency" was for America and the world.
If only No. 7 had "gone the distance" and not written "Romney/Ryan 2012."
But wait! Maybe that's the total of the popular vote No. 7 thinks they'll garner in the election!
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL!
Looks like it's time for Clint to "Ride off into the Sunset"....... Its West Clint - West.... Yea that way .... no keep going... keep going...... Keeeeep Goooingggg.... Further... Further................
XX.
You Can't TRUST Republicans (or Clint Eastwood.)
What Republicans Say:
Chris Christie - On Aug 28, 2012 Tampa, used the word "Truth" 16 Times in his keynote speech at the RNC convention. And he specifically said this…
What Republicans Do:
Romney pollster Neil Newhouse stated: "We're not going [to] let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers." ... on the same day as Christie's speech, during an ABC News/Yahoo! News event at the RNC Convention.
Then Paul Ryan Spoke:
... and Fox News contributor Sally Kohn had this to say about Paul Ryan's convention speech on August 29th, 2012
Republicans SAY ONE THING and DO ANOTHER.
How can anyone TRUST a Republican?
democrat promised everything hope and change hope obama out every changes back that,s the hope and change I want to see.
Pathetic! Warped! Disturbing! Waste of TV time.. I don't get how any human could listen to mitts mutts spew such crap! This guy and his "Dream Team" (Michael Keaton movie reference) are EVERYTHING that is wrong with this Countries moral in
tegrities, ALL politics aside! There is no way Romney or any other President will ever repair this mess in 4 years, why let him spill his backward moral beliefs on us too? I'll stick with the President who inherited a 7 year war and is less than 1yr removed.. Again, I was never made aware that a Countries economy is supposed to flourish during war? But, what the hell do I know?? (I guess if you make kevlar, bullets and guns or own a bunch of oil you'll be okay.) I don't care what political party you register for, you're an individual and if your common sense doesn't tell you that this crew of dope-ublicans is bad for this Country and our progress as people, then.... @!$%#, that's sad!! Go Patriots!
http://Bruce-1628250.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/01/13610205-romney-set-up-to-lose
I dropped all his (Eastwood) movie DVD's into my shredder last night...
Good for you. replace those with Obama CDs about "Yes we can but we don't" songs..
you don't have to agree with his politics to like his movies. lately you do have to be retarded to like them though.
HATR you were most likely one of the Occupiers. Just another group of welfare liberals. There's a movie starting Sept. 21 called Occupy Unmasked. It shows the liberal Criminals and thieves that made up those MOBS!!!!!!!!
How about Clowney, or Bill Mahr, or Jessica Parker, or all the me too whining lefties?
Mitko Pitko, what about them? I am sure they would be much funnier and have an actual point to make. Repubs have absolutely no clue when it comes to entertainment. If it is not country music, they are lost. they are great on spending someone else money though.
C'mon man, that's just ridiculous
It must suck to limit the music you listen to, the kinds of food you eat, or the movies you watch simply based on the political views of their creator(s).
gordanfan. You think that because the Rep's ran this country into the ground, and these kids that have taken on huge debit to go to Collage just to come out and have to work at McDonald's with there degree's. Well they are bad as hell. How many people at the top are in Jail for there part in this melt down. The Rep's keep saying that people bought homes they couldn't afford. Well what about the bankers that sold them adjustable mortgages, when they could have put them into fixed. Think that might have had something to do with it. Or what about letting the people just tell them what they made and never checking there income out before letting them have a mortgage. Who's fault was that. See these brokers are used car sales men. They get paid by the sale. The didn't care. They set the people up for failure. Not only in the housing market, but in the car business also. Car salesmen tell you how to lie about your income, just to get you financed. Sure you might be able to keep up for a year or so, then in the middle of the night, they send someone to take the car back. So they set you up for failure, and then the courts make you pay the car off anyway after the repo. So the fix is in, they have all the bases covered, and guess who is the looser all the time. You and I. Capitalism at its best. We all should wake up and be out there raising hell. This Sh t will never stop unless we stop it. Banking Regulations were in place for a reason. You couldn't get credit unless you could afford it. It was based on what you really made, then you could only get credit base on a percentage of what you made. There were less trouble then. But that is all for not if we don't have good paying steady jobs for all. If corp's always did the right things then we wouldn't need unions. If banks always did the right things we wouldn't need Regulations. But we all know that Greed is what rules. People like Mitt things they should be given everything with out working for it. They think its alright to steel instead of work for their money. So what is he going to do as President? He will totally destroy the working people and make us all slaves again. That is what Capitalism is all about. That is what the Rep's are all about.
gordon, you must have been the guy throwing peanuts at the black woman at the rnc. see how stupid you sound? i have a job and therefore no time for the occupy bs. none of my family members have ever been on welfare either. for someone who probably doesn't want their entire party painted as thinking that rape doesn't cause pregnancy you sure use a wide brush on anyone who has different views than yours.
mitko, how about jon luvittz, rush, or kelsey grammar and the "taxed enough already" bs? i find it funny that these overtaxed people have such lavish conventions considering they're so taxed that they are broke or at least to hear them say it you'd think they are.
Sorry Gordon, just because we don't agree with you or don't like Sarah Palin doesn't make us occupiers or liberals.
Sorry to pop your bubble but freedom loving intelligent Americans think she's an idiot too.
What a baby...shredding his movies.
Grow up...why don't you.
Tampa, Aug 30, 2012: at a fundraiser during the Republican National Convention, GOP strategist Karl Rove said, "We should sink Todd Akin," and followed that by stating, "If he's found mysteriously murdered, don't look for my whereabouts!"
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/todd-akins-office-disturbed-by-karl-roves-joke/
Karl Rove, GOP/Republican strategist
Todd Akin, GOP/Republican Congressman, candidate for U.S. Senator of Missouri
Waaaaah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcweQO7Shk
maybe you don,t trust a rep. behind you but I don,t but I don,t trust a dem in front or along side of me
Clint(The Cryptkeeper) should go shop for another wife(back at the playground)...and Romney can pick up a few spares!! Obama has been blocked by a Congress who gives themselves raises, and invests NOTHING in the community!!! They CREATED this mess, and now, won't allow him to clean up their sh*$(they could clean it up themselves) Ha Ha ha! When was the last time you ever saw a Republican do that? During the Civil War maybe....My president GOT OSAMA BIN LADEN(your Boogeyman), what did W. do? Bankrupted the WORLD while profiting personally!!!! Welldone. One day you're going to have to answer to the GOD you guys keep talking about, while not acting like Christians at all!! You idiots slipped W. in for two terms while the WORLD scratched their heads, you guys just don't get it....and btw Global warming was also REAL in case you haven't noticed...lol
You guys are all retarded. Bash both sides if you must but no president is going to get us out of this rut that was started by no one in general. Our country has turned to apathy. The rich get richer because they work, and work and work. The poor get poorer because they want to live off the government. If everyone just worked together to a final solution we could get out of this and unify. It's the democrats fault because they want to feed and cloth everyone, and it's the republicans fault for wanting to get ahead. Either way we can't win when all you do is talk crap about each side. None of you are smart enough to come up with a solution, but you are smart enough to say why the other side is wrong.....btw, non of your arguments are original....they are the same ones that have been going on forever. You are not special.
I found it entertaining and refreshing, at last someone who didn't give a rehearsed speech
I like Clint Eastwood. I'll still watch his films. But really, what the HELL was that all about last night? I mean, what was he thinking?!
Sure, it was unscripted. But that ten minute speech could have been reduced to five minutes if every other word out of his mouth wasn't "uh," "um," or "you know."
Stick to the scripts, Mr. Eastwood. They've treated you well over the years. Don't stray now.
Mike,
It was a simple insult to you know who. Clint really knows how to insult..
Mike, I believe it was totally unaccompanied by the thought process. Shyam, if that's the best you guys have, then bring it.
Those ahs and ums sounded like Obama without his Teleprompter. Except he throws some DUH's and "you knows"in there also.
Gordanfan24 - you are confused again...Surely, you are talking about the junior Bush...Every time he opened his mouth a pure comedy came out of it. Not intentional I am sure, but still funny.
Gordanfan24, what the heck are you talking about?! Where did this overused reference to President Obama using a teleprompter come from? Do you not realize that ALL speakers use teleprompters on occasion? Politicians are no different. That being said, President Obama is one of the most gifted speakers we've had in a president since President Clinton.
I don't need a gifted speaker - I need results and promises kept. Love how Clint got on the gitmo and Biden's F Bomb. Love his smart ass tough guy ways - even at 81
Didn't pay attention did ya been? Then again, maybe you did and you weren't able to comprehend the ramblings of an old man. The reference Eastwood made wasn't to Biden's F bomb. He's clearly confused on that one as well. It was Cheney who told Patrick Leahy to Go f*%& yourself not Biden. Figures, the republicans hand picked senile old man can't even get his F bombs straight. And their simpletonn followers can't do much better. LOL
gordan, every president since reagan has used teleprompters. it's incredibly stupid to call out obama for something all of your party's politicians do yet you do. does that make you incredibly stupid or just a hypocrite?
Shellie - Biden clearly dropped an F bomb on live TV when the Affordable Care Act was signed. I'm pretty sure that was the reference. "This is f*cking big!" or something like that.
PS - simpleton only has one n.
And you think you're going to get that from Romney? I love how you Repubs are dying to fall in line behind the candidate that offers zero details (and didn't last night either) on how he plans to do anything, lies about his opponent, wants to go into more wars and keep troops in Afganistan, hid money from the country he now wants to lead, limit women's rights, on and on! Obama's biggest mistake was that he thought the way business is done in Washington could be changed, but all he got was unwillingness from the other side of the isle to compromise. Funny how Congress doesn't take any responsibility for their unwillingness to help this country move forward, but instead puts all the blame on the President.
I believe Eastwood's faltering statements with ummm, ahh, errr,,, etc, was a parody on, Obama without a teleprompter.
In that regard, it was funny. That Eastwood's humor went right over the heads of the RNC, who still haven't recognized that they were the brunt of the jokes was priceless too. Using a character of delusion to a delusional crowd made it all that much more amusing.
I'm just saying!
It could have been worse. I heard some wanted to trot out Clyde the orangutan as the surrogate president so they could reprise their bang your dead routine.
I used to have respect for Clint Eastwood.
This pandering to an obviously like-minded group of zealots was embarrassing.
Oh, when an actor, or a celebrity dares to break the party lines in Hollywood you're crying foul and pandering and unfair and racism...etc.
And when all the lefties insult the people who are trying to save our country it's OK?
Save the country from what? I'm so sick of hearing that! I haven't agreed with everything Obama has done either, but everything has improved since Bush-wack started the most expensive war in history! We needed to be saved BEFORE Bush took office, but we're in it now. And things have improved. Yes, it hasnt' been as quickly as I would have liked, and certainly made it wasy for the sheeple to jump on a bandwagon, but it's still better than it was 4 years ago! Romney hasn't laid out a single, tangible, valid plan that would actually cut any costs for anyone but him and his croneys.
Lavrn - Finally someone who makes sense...but don't get your hopes up. The Tea baggers/Republinuts don't want to hear about facts. The facts never got in their way of thinking..
There are only two types of Republinuts...First, Millionaires who really think that they need to have all the breaks in the world. Those people most likely got rich off of huge Government contracts. No wonder why they love Repubs. ideas of more breaks and more wars. They get always richer from those. Second, Stupid, uninformed morons, those types that listen to Lush Limbaugh.... A lot of them are most likely on some kind of hand outs from the Government either through subsidies or welfare checks, deep south type of folks.
So there you go... you cannot talk to the first group...they will always vote where their interests are. Talking to the second group is just pointless. They are just too stupid and brainwashed to understand. Millionaires like Lush Limbaugh make sure they stay that way for a long time.
Thank freakin' goodness the Liberals on here are only .0000000001% of the population. There's still hope and I'm not talking about Obama's kind of hope.
Then it must have been magic how in 2008 this .000000001% made Obama win by such a HUGE margin.
Poor Clint.
Getting old and senile and talking to imaginary people.
Obama will be imaginary...2012
So, N0.7, will your head explode when Romney loses?
Romney already is having to run on his history as a sociopath.
He start his life as a privileged high school thug mugging a kid that offended him, moved on to playing state cop with daddy's help, pulling over frightened people, the dog incident, then ended by creating a business killing careers and jobs.
He needs to run away from everything he has "accomplished" 'cause he spent more effort hiding income than actually accomplishing anything. Hey, he's entitled to a title like the royalty he believes he represents. if things go to crap he can climb on a yacht and leave for one of the islands where his money lives.
The Ayn Rand acolyte, Paul Ryan, the GOP was a wonderful choice. He follows a philosophy that believes christianity is ludicrous for its altruism. His economics promote predatory, unregulated, unrestrained commerce that creates a wealthy class -- the poor simply need to serve the wealthy or die.
Romney wants to represent the 1% and ensure they own all the assets in an America that operates like the game Monopoly. Ryan hates the poor, the young, the sick, the elderly. His mom better watch out -- cause she will go over the cliff when things get to expensive.
You want to know how America ends? Vote for these madmen. PEOPLE RUN AWAY FROM TAXES SO THEY CAN HAND OVER EVERY PENNY THEY MAKE TO GREEDY, UNREGULATED, BILLIONAIRE CAPITALISTS. LUNACY.
"ok, everybody now: 'go ahead...MAKE-MY-DAY!!!"
i wonder if the colorado delegates joined in on that....y'know, movie influences on crazy minds and all.
Clint made my day again. LOLOLOL
Clint Eastwood sums up GOP platform: From "Make my day" to "What day is it?"
Clints day of course.
talking to an empty chair isn't all that unusual for people of his age--my gramma talked to her cat ---the cat had been dead for a few years.
Did your gramma remind you of that when you talked to here last night? We would have been a lot better off if the chair had been empty the last 3-1/2 years. Comedy about Obama and anybody else in politics has appraered on late night shows, television and all other types of media..perhaps the most derogative comes from Bill Mahr's continual attacks on Romney and other Republicans..Obama refused to condemn Mahers statements and gladly took his $1 million dollar contribution! If the Democrats can dish it out, apparently can't take it! What's good for the goose is good for the gander! Get a life!
helmutbreaker-----go bill maher!! you are off topic----maybe the broken helmut has something to do with it. devoting that much time to nonsense rambling to an empty chair-i don't think it was at all efective but then i don't know what they were trying to accomplish-just plain silly.
You are right most people 82 years old are not even sure where they are at , so talking to a chair is not strange at all. But if he had been addressing a Senior Citzens club they probably would'n have mind.
Is that the chair that Bobby Knight threw?
Actually, it is the same chair that that white supremist hit Geraldo with
Clint Eastwood is the perfect icon for the Republican party......an angry old white guy muttering to himself, apparently suffering from sundown syndrome.
Here's what one honest Republican had to say in response:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/30/sen-lindsey-graham-republicans-not-generating-enough-angry-white-guys/
it's crazy what the republicans are doing to themselves. I get that there are bigots, racists, skinheads there always will be but if you want your party to get into the white house, making statements like that is not the right path; and what Akin said, who lets these people out from under their rock? All the other speeches are scripted why not their's?
I also wonder why they invited Eastwood given that he's pro-choice and pro-marriage equality. He hates the Christian Taliban wing of the GOP.
I keep thinking that this was pure sabotage, for the reasons you just stated, and I think Clint is a Ron Paul guy right?
As far as good old Clint Eastwood, I have far too much respect for the man to denigrate him in spite of his political views. On another note, as the camera kept panning to the audience one thing dawned on me; Is this the whitest ever RNC convention, or what??? I think I might have briefly spotted one person that wasn't caucasian in the audience. Perhaps just someone who likes to tan a lot. Then the incident of a couple of days ago where the African American camerawoman was accosted and abused, and called an animal came to mind. Need I say more?
Eastwood reminds me of Reagan. Senile!
Well, JCC, what a truly crass and disrespectful remark. (typical) Reagan had Alzheimer's Disease, which is a truly devastating condition; that is not the same thing as senility. Get some education, and some decency, then respond again.
A little history here for context, lets remember that Clint was the multimillionaire (maybe billionaire, not sure) that petitioned against the American with Disabilities Act because he thought it would be too much of a financial burden to make his posh Carmel, California hotel wheelchair accessible! So, a military vet with a wheelchair is not welcome at his establishment. This is his politics, so no surprise that he came out in favor of Mitt.
But, thanks Clint for reinforcing the fact that most repubs are un poco loco en la cabeza.
Excellent comment! Not only do the Repubs turn their backs on disabled vets, the Repubs are the first to put our military citizens in harm's way. Of course, they, themselves do not serve.
JCC@FL--If you are going to comment get the facts first--George H.W. Bush was shot down when he was a pilot and if that isnt serving, WHAT is, in your liberal opinion.
BG-3384724-- You Also need to get the facts straight on the Americans with Disabilities act before you spout anti Republican BS--
I am a registered Democrat but will not help put oboma back in as I am also an AMERICAN and dont want what is left of my country to be gone down the tube
It's President Obama...
Azlandowner,
First, HW Bush went into Iraq, after Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait, with a solid allied bloc, including Arab troops. Second, HW Bush had a clearly defined goal, free Kuwait and render Iraq incapable of aggression for at least 10 years. Third, HW Bush followed a clear military strategy of over-whelming force, and placing Arab troops into sensitive areas as opposed to American or British troops. And finally, HW Bush realized that he could not overthrow Saddam Hussein without leaving Iraq a hot-bed of insurgency and terrorism.
HW's son, GW Bush picked a fight. It was fairly clear that while Saddam represented a threat to his neighbors, that threat was as much ponted at Iran as anywhere else. But rather than attack Afghanistan with overwhelming force to rout the Taliban, known supporters of Al Queda - the 9/11 terrorists, GW Bush chose to invade Iraq, topple it government and install a puppet, who hadn't been thoroughly vetted. And invade Afghanistan, with less than overwhelming force and a distracted leadership concentrating on Iraq. Clint Eastwood asked this question of Obama, but he should have asked the President who sent those troops to war 6 years earlier, GW Bush. So, after spending 7 years of war and occupation in Iraq under GW Bush, President Obama was forced to basically fight a rear gaurd action for two years just to get out of a mess.
Obama did boost troop levels in Afghanistan. His military actions have gone after Al Queda and radical Taliban elements. But unlike GW Bush, Obama seems to recognise that politically and sociologically, the Taliban will remain in Afghanistan. Just like the Bathists, the Kurds, the Shiaites, and the Sunnis remain in Iraq, along with freshly transplanted element of the radical Taliban and Al Queda.
As one who HAS dealt with the ADA, the regulations may seem extreme, but they are there for a reason. And compliance is more an act of will than expense. Brother of a man who spent the last 14years of his life as a quadriplegic.
It's too bad our leaders can't just tell facts and state their position without all the lies, insults, inflammatory, sensational stuff. I don't know why anyone listens to ANY of them. Our political system is lame thanks to media enabling that.
Randy I am with you, but lets wait until next week... I think there is hope.
Guys, I think you got it wrong, don't blame the media. It was the Supreme Court that told us that lying is permissible use of the First Amendment. You can fabricate a story about your service to your country and your achievements; that decision has to apply equally to all, including politicians.
We need to come up with some different ideas to deal with these lying cheating fatherless children when they enter politics.
Lying is best done by Democrats. In Osambo's innaugural speech he made named six goals and has achieved none of them. Even a liberal rag like Newsweek has called for him to go.
The media feeds on the baseless lies and unsubstantiated charges by these desperate leeches and publishes them without ant corroboration as if truth does not matter.
Just wait for the DNC for a good pack of lies and hot air.
i am registered democrat, will not vote for obama,when i watch him speak his mouth does not match the words that come out,he is the devil
Wow...after Clint's silly speech I know that I will not vote for Romney.......Like everyone else on the vine...I think Clint Eastwood is a great actor and director......He should not be a political spokes person. Actors seems to think that their popularity and notoriety draws votes. They are the worst spokesperson for any political person. Clint nice to see you last night......stay home ......write a screenplay........act in a movie....stay off the podium and let the politicians fall flat on their face...your help is not needed. Stick to acting and directing...that will "Make My Day"... Now do I feel lucky........well do ya punk..........
What was particularly disappointing was that his time on stage was as much theatrics as politics. He got the theatrics wrong. He could not deliver his lines.
I thought it was awesome - said things about Obama that we all wish we could sit down and talk about. It was funny - real - and lets face it - a new way to get the facts on the failure of Obama to lead.
Of course you thought it was funny. Who else but a teapublican would think it hysterical watching an incoherent old man look like he had no clue where he was. Just your speed huh?
I was always a Clint Eastwood fan until I heard his speech at the RNC. The only words that come to mind are disrespectful, racist, and distorted. It's a shame that dementia has shown its ugly face on poor Mr. Eastwoood. After all, it must be dementia because obviously he has forgotten who got us into this mess. It was our former president of 8 years. The USA was in dire straits, only the Great Depression of 1929 was a more trying economic time. The country has progressed considerably under Mr. Obama's Presidency. The war in Iraq is winding down. The number of American lives lost is considerably less with the use of drones. The stock market has made a huge comeback and many businesses are thriving. Osama Bin Laden is no longer a threat and terrorism has diminished. President Obama is thinking of the poor and middle class when he proposes that the rich pay their fair share of taxes even though he will have to pay more. He has championed education, health care, women's rights despite the constant opposition in a Republican controlled CIngres. Yes Mr. Eastwood, you might have been funny to the uninformed but there are people who know the truth. Hopefully they will all come out to vote and let President Obama finish the job he started and help bring America back to its true glory.
Steve and Shellie,
I actually thought that Clint was very effective in style and content. While I disagree that Romney/Ryan would do a better job and Clint's appropriation of our ongoing war was misplaced, The only real issue I had was when he started talking about OWNERSHIP of our country. While I thought that ALL CITIZENS owned the United States of America, in common "for the common good" (quoted from the US Constitution's Preamble). Clint address was targeted to the 1% and 2% (the truly wealthy, and the party faithfulhoping party allegience will give them a leg up on being truly wealthy). And he was implying (as a member of the 1%) that the true ownership of the country belonged to that splinter, and our politicians, including Mitt Roney and Paul Ryan works for that 1%. The truth clouded in a bit of sophistry.
What happened to the "tolerant" little liberals? SHAME SHAME SHAME Shellie, you are not being "tolerant". You have no respect for someone older then you? TYPICAL liberal wishy washy bull@!$%#.. your only "tolerant" when you think you will benefit from it...