davet82 wrote: » Anybody catch Clint Eastwoods interview with 'Obama' at the Republican Convention last night?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933hKyKNPFQ I thought it was very good :pac:
Biggins wrote: » A lot of reviews said it was everything from weird to downright depressing!
Colmustard wrote: » Clint is a legend, But he has gone down in my estimations since I seen that. I don't particularly feel Obama is great, but I think Romney is a potential lunatic if he is not one already.
Biggins wrote: » Its started an internet trend which Obama has even got into - "Eastwooding": http://www.thejournal.ie/president-obama-burns-clint-eastwood-via-twitter-579306-Aug2012/
spankmaster2000 wrote: » Zing!! Oh that Obama... :pac:
smash wrote: » I was actually pretty sad. That man was a hero to me until 5 mins ago!
sky is the limit wrote: » Cringeworthy, he called the imaginary Obama an "attorney" seemingly unaware that he actually has a full degree in law
Biggins wrote: » I used to respect Charlton Heston till he became a complete gun nut also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1iuEcu7O50
later12 wrote: » ...Clint Eastwood is not a typical conservative. He's not a typical liberal either. He does what he thinks is the honourable thing based on the situation that confront him and taking into account his own moral outlook, not the ideology that talks down to him. Therefore, he is a man.
sky is the limit wrote: » [/B] Yes I agree he has that "vacant" look that Bush and especially Reagan had,its unnerving!
Biggins wrote: » ...A 'man' would do any honourable thing - on any side of the fence - he would also hopefully see a complete bunch of liars and war-profiteering party when it exists too! ..And the Republican ideology don't talk down to most people - it wants to walk all over them! Example: The current Paul Ryan (Romneys partner in crime):
later12 wrote: » I don't believe for a minute that Eastwood doesn't see the faults of Romney & Ryan. His priority in terms of this campaign seems to be concerns over unemployment, which is a valid and a worrying problem for ordinary decent Americans. Eastwood is the everyman's hero ; while I don't agree with his politics, we cannot put him into the mad, bad republican category at all. He's just doing what he believes is right, and I respect him for that difficult position enormously. It was the completely honourable and manly thing to do. MAN CRUSH INTACT.
Mitt Romney probably hoped that surprise guest Clint Eastwood would make his day at the convention. Instead, the 82-year-old actor gave a rambling speech that was as disastrous as the botched bank robbery that he stopped in "Dirty Harry" while playing a jaded San Francisco cop.
Eastwood talked to an empty chair representing President Barack Obama. Eastwood, who praised Romney as a "stellar businessman," later said that he thought it was never a good idea for attorneys to be president, despite the fact that Romney, like Obama, has a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
UPDATE: 11:20 p.m. -- The Romney campaign seemed to grasp how Eastwood's bizarre, rambling, unscripted speech fell flat. "Judging an American icon like Clint Eastwood through a typical political lens doesn't work," was the campaign's response. Aides winced backstage, according to the Associated Press.
ejmaztec wrote: » The strange was that he actually did think that Obama was sitting in the chair. :eek:
