Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians, followed by an avalanche of support on Twitter and in the blogosphere, is all the proof anybody needs that his 12-minute discourse achieved exactly what he intended it to.
It was only after a quick nap a few blocks from the convention site, Eastwood mapped out his remarks. “There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down,” Eastwood said. “When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.” - read more HERE
Good for Clint. He is right and finally some publicly telling it like it is.
This typifies the difference between conservatives and liberals. The conservatives present a man who is an icon in his industry,and successful beyond imagining.
The liberals respond with a flock of pretty faces,Scarlett Johannsen and other busty young things,that are great to look at, but I wouldn't want them running my business.
Whether it's Eastwood versus Johannsen, Harper versus Trudeau,or Romney versus Obama,the theme's the same, experience and ability against a pretty face.
Best speech made at a potus convention in living memory. It will be a template for others in the years to come.
OBAMA'S MASSIVE OVER SPENDING & TAX INCREASES CREATE FAILURES
Barrack Hussein Obama’s less than laudable fiscal endeavours include the four highest spending years since 1946, increased 21 different taxes in ObamaCare, increased cigarette and other specific job killing taxes on the middle class, and a monolithic job slaughtering tax increase on small businessmen and the most productive wealth/job creators who make over $250,000.
With 23 million Americans currently unemployed, there are less Americans working now than there was in January 2009 when Obama became president. Three million more Americans are out of work than four years ago, the national debt is $5 trillion bigger, medium income in much lower, family income has declined by $4000.00, and gas prices are much, much higher.
He has increased the deficit by a billion dollars each year of his presidency, and the national debt has multiplied from $9 trillion at his inauguration in January 2009, to more than $16 trillion in 2012.
As a result of his disapproval of the free enterprise system, Obama has mishandled one of the slowest and weakest recoveries from a recession since the Great Recession. He endeavoured to stimulate the economy in the standard Keynesian style; however, while expediting this policy he relentlessly affirmed his anti-business convictions, persistently threatened stronger job killing regulations, incessantly promised higher taxes, and unremittingly promised wealth redistribution. The result is feeble job growth, pathetically low GDP growth, and a major increase in debt resulting from, to a large extent, wasted stimulus dollars
Obama has repudiated reining in spending and instead has grown the national debt. It took America from 1789 to 2008 to acquire $9 trillion in federal debt; it took Obama less than three years to increase that 200 year debt by practically 70 percent. In Obama’s first three years, the national debt increased from a little more than 40 percent of our gross domestic product to more than 100 percent of GDP. Obama’s long list of economic failures also includes the first debt downgrade in U.S. history, and a drop in Americans’ incomes to the same levels they were in 1996.
One therefore, would think that even an extreme progressive like comrade Obama would realize that out of controlled spending, over regulation, and increasing taxes will result in continuous decades of impediments for current and future American families. The Congressional Budget Office revealed that Obama’s annual spending increases of 20% has inflicted the next generation of Americans with a deficit of $1.08 trillion, or 7% of GDP, in 2012, and a debt of 72.5% of the economy, up from 49.3% from President Bush’s last year in 2008. The utopian building president has increased Federal Government spending to the highest level---21 percent in 2009---since 1946.
Obama wants to obstruct wealth/job creators, who already pay much much more than their fair share of income tax, with additional tax increases. Someone should inform the president, as if he would be interested in loosing one of his re-election talking points, that according to the Internal Revenue Service for 2008, the top 1% of earners paid 38% of all personal income taxes, while earning 20% of pretax income. The top 5% of income earners paid 58.7% of personal income taxes while earning 34.7% of pretax income. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of income earners paid only 2.7% of the total tax burden while earning 12.75% of the total pretax income. Many of non-tax payers actually receive tax credits (welfare) payments.
Rational fiscal analysis realize that the US has a spending problem rather than a revenue problem. Spending has accelerated to an estimated 25.3% of GDP in 2011from 21.3% since 1988. The obvious fiscally responsible answer is cutting $4-5 trillion in structural cuts over a relatively short duration without gutting the defence budget which would be a renunciation of their basic national security responsibilities.
Rather than continuing comrade Barrack Hussein Obama’s irresponsible out of controlled spending, over regulation, and tax increases, free-market economists and political scientists contend that the US needs a permanent cap on spending, and structural changes in entitlement programs. As one economist pundit says, “you can not tax an economy into prosperity”.
And Michael Moore speaks as well..."No,Obama DIDN'T save Detroit!" ..see Newsbusters.When you've lost that fat,leftwing loon,ya know it's over!!
Heh, there's no way that was unscripted. Eastwood knew perfectly well what he was going to do and say.
That included not only the empty chair but also the vacant teleprompter.
Chair? No way that was going to be used for Eastwood to sit on; he'd have disappeared on it behind the podium! And he needed the podium for the mike! And he needed to STAND at that podium for that mike.
And what about the teleprompter in front of the empty chair?
It was scripted. It said what no politician would dare to say - that Obama IS an empty chair. That he's not the Messiah as Obama Himself tells us he is. He's the Emperor with no clothes. And it's OK for we, the people, to realize this, not feel embarassed because we, like Eastwood, wept with joy when he was first elected...and it's time to let the Empty Chair go.
It was scripted, known by the RNC people. And perfect.
Like I said, the speech was pure Eastwood genius.
machiavelli: "(Obama) has increased the deficit by a billion dollars each year of his presidency."
Isn't that a trillion dollars, rather than a billion?
The media pundits are all wailing because THEIR precious icon the "Obama-Nation(tm)" got publicly 'taken down' a couple of serious notches; by a revered and gifted movie icon.
Decrying Clint for his off the cuff extemporaneous presentation, was just stupid, as in normal conversation the thoughtful person always pauses to consider his next words. That is simply the nature of being unscripted...
The public persona of the "Uber-Leader" has just had his balloon shot full of holes by one of the premiere shoot-em up icons. That's what drove the Media Party and the ultra-ideologues completely bonkers; THEY THE ANOINTED ONES couldn't control the message.
Clint landed a political bulls eye the the Media Party and the DNC are smarting. The "Obama-Nation(tm)" has been flushed out as a political poseur puff piece who is in way over his head.
OBAMA - One Big Ass Mistake America and its going to continue to hurt for quite some time.
Ya got precious little GOOD, a whole lotta BAD, and some damn UGLY.
Laura Lee: 'Kansas was all golden and smelled like sunshine.'
Josey Wales: 'Yeah, well, I always heard there were three kinds of suns in Kansas, sunshine, sunflowers, and sons-of-bitches.'
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Number two in the hoax list -- cigarettes are good for you. Actually the two hoaxes are tied together in one bigger hoax. Good job I spelchecked that word bigger (check your keyboard).
As one economist pundit says, “you can not tax an economy into prosperity”.
BS. When you are in a recession,you tax everything that moves or doesn't move.How else can a socialist gubermint get the money to help its buddies? And that should be trillions of dollars in debt.The Yank economy is tanking at billions in a day,not a year.
Stalin and the paedophile Muhammad are laughing all the way to hell.(And did everybody miss the fact that the serial rapist Willy BOWED to the Zero?)
I didn't hear Obama's speech last night. I was working ... until 2am actually. You know, to generate the money which pays the taxes which funds the endless social programs.
But this morning I did hear Dennis Prager's analysis of Obama's vacuous speech. In it, Mr. Messiah didn't talk about his past 4 years and gave no details about how he plans to accomplish his "hopes & dreams" of the next 4 years.
Yet the press will barely challenge him on any of this. And at least 45% of Americans are going to vote for him. Probably 70% of Canadians would.
What a sad situation we're in.
Robert, you're right of course. Look at last night's by-election in Ontario. Despite the disaster of McGuinty in every facet you can judge him on his candidate in Vaughn gets 51% of the votes cast. The NDP, who ruined Ontario under Rae, wins the other one in Kitchener Waterloo.
Conservatives are shut out of every seat in the major urban centres of the province. While this can be blamed partly on Hudak it speaks volumes about the entitlement generation that lives in our urban towns and cities.
Clint did a fine job of making it possible to go after Obama without being called a racist. I admire that. You can bet he had it prepared. The left just does not comprehend what was done on that stage by him acting like a senile Grandpa he opened the way for others to ask questions. Because if a senile old codger can see a disaster of a President , than why don't you. He asked that chair questions no one else could until that moment.
Chris Matthew's the day before was screaming any criticism of Obama was racism. Even using ridiculousness of race tying words to mean racism. Eastwood killed it by talking to a chair.
Kal Penn and President Obama,JFK and Marilyn
must see!
Read more http://hillbuzz.org/kal-penn-is-to-barack-obama-what-marilyn-monroe-was-to-john-f-kennedy-11025
Rev., Chris Mathews will notice the chair was "MAHOGANY!!!" in 3 , 2, ...
He said it was unscripted. The rnc could not come up with or okay what happened. That said except for cream puff they are glad it did.
'Clint did a fine job of making it possible to go after Obama without being called a racist. I admire that. You can bet he had it prepared. The left just does not comprehend what was done on that stage by him acting like a senile Grandpa he opened the way for others to ask questions. Because if a senile old codger can see a disaster of a President , than why don't you. He asked that chair questions no one else could until that moment.
Chris Matthew's the day before was screaming any criticism of Obama was racism. Even using ridiculousness of race tying words to mean racism. Eastwood killed it by talking to a chair.'
Posted by: Revnant Dream at September 7, 2012 2:17 PM
Bravo Revnant Dream! I think that you read Mr. Eastwood's mind!
Clint Eastwood is and always has been a rebel - a man with a very independent bent; he is what the Political Corrects (left and right) call a redneck (showing how stupid PCers are!). The anti-Liberty/Freedom PC crowd called Ron Paul 'goofy', 'crazy uncle'; Clint Eastwood was Ron Paul and he dared the Repubs and the Demos to a "Make my Day" slander fest.
It backfired on the PCers (msm left and right) heh. Jose Wales was a rebel. Clint Eastwood is a Patriot and so is Dr. Paul.
The Obamabots have to suck this stuff up because if anyone ever made an issue of trying to actually prosecute someone calling their messiah a hoax the resulting discovery at a public trial would not favor them or their hopey-changey con man.
I disagree! Obama is the second greatest Hoax. The first by far is big Al Gore & the United Nations Global Warming International Hoax & Fraud
The Communists are committed to AGW, Van-Jones was on CNN during the (both) conventions pushing for AGW commitments from Mitt & Obama.
If Obama changed his EPA practices to an America First & dropped the crazy Marxist environmentalists. He would not need Bill Clinton
(Clinton committed pergury & was disbarred) to tell Democrats the Truth; as only Clinton knows the meaning of "it"
Just Saying
Today, with my work colleagues at regular Friday lunch, I was asked what I thought of the DNC. I told my colleagues that four years ago, I said he was an empty suite; now he is an empty suite in an empty chair. Laughter all round.
Yes, Clint's speech will be remembered.
machiavelli at September 7, 2012 11:04 AM
Obama is a socialist. Socialists hate America. He is doing exactly what the Manchurian Candidate was trained to do.
I'm watching some old Clint Eastwood films. He's a cool customer!
A thought came to me tonight: I'll bet there are a lot of Lefties in Hollywood who are glad that Clint called Obama out. They won't do it. They might even vote for the RR ticket. But they're glad that someone spoke out for fiscal sanity, seeing as a lot of them have a lot to lose if the U.S. of A. goes down the tubes.
I'll bet there are a lot of them who don't actually think that Clint lost it.
Clint Eastwood is an accomplished director, a storyteller, and it was a treat to watch live a brilliant speech disguised as rambling musings. Even more enjoyable was watching the democrat media complex not get it and attack the performance _and_ the performer, unaware (or uncaring) how popular this man really is. The amount of flak emitted showed how close to the target were the strikes unloaded, and the rest of the story continues to provide additional damage to the dmc narrative as the director grants an interview to his local paper.
Thanks Clint
God bless Clint Eastwood.
Romney got a dead cat bounce out of his convention. However that wasn't down to Clint, it's largely down to the tin man at the top of the ticket.