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Obama get off my lawn!
Atta boy, Lance!
See also this
Exactly. Obama, an empty chair, an empty suit, a president without leadership, without ideas, with only one solution to any problem: Tax and borrow and bribe...just keep Me, The One, in power.
Eastwood's incredible skit broke the walls down, the walls the left (and Obama) has put up whereby if you criticize Obama the God King, you are accused of blasphemy, of heresy, of racism.
Eastwood's open acknowledgement that Obama is nothing but an empty chair; his insistence that he, Clint, will NOT shut up and will NOT be intimidated by any insults, enabled the average American to no longer feel threatened as a racist and to see reality for what it is.
Obama is an empty chair. Now, let's see how the image spreads and is used. It sure has the left in a frothing, foaming hysteria. Including Obama who tweeted that 'the seat's taken' which is merely similar to and as empty as his oft-repeated comments that "I'm the President' and "I won'.
Going viral?
http://news.investors.com/photopopup.aspx?id=624360
Everyone should just put an empty baby's high chair on their front lawn. That would be classic!
I set up two, one for Obama and one for Biden. Probably should put a dunce cap in Biden's so people will know the difference.
Empty Suit, Empty Chair....just plain bloody empty except for the Communist transfusions.
You forgot to hand a dog whistle off of it.
Seriously though, this chair should have a number of others behind it. One each for Saul Alinksy, George Soros, Bill Ayers, ET AL.
It's gathering steam. Hot Air has a great editorial cartoon by Ramirez of the Investors Business Daily, and also their editorial, which says in part
"Eastwood highlighted the empty chair and the empty promises and policies that failed to lower both the sea level and the unemployment rate, stuck at more than 8% for 42 months, a post-Depression record. Meanwhile, President Obama jets to college campuses in the carbon-gushing Air Force One to prattle on about student loans to college students who won’t be able to find jobs.
Obama and his administration officials have made 435 taxpayer-funded visits to college campuses or other events targeting students since March 2011. Included have been 164 trips to battleground states, a new study shows, leaving him too busy to meet with his jobs council to find these kids work.
Eastwood’s empty chair reminds us of the poem by William Hughes Mearns that goes in part: “Last night I saw upon the stair, A little man who wasn’t there, He wasn’t there again today, Oh, how I wish he’d go away .. .”
Eastwood suggests that in November we can make our invisible president do just that."
The MSM is repugnantly DISHONEST. The fact is that rational people already knew this.
Lance, yours is better then mine. Your chair is bigger, so emptier.
Obama's campaign slogan: Running on empty
See this, too.
"Obama's campaign slogan: Running on empty."
set you free, you nailed it!
Needs a Romney standing beside it.That is a GOP sign.Empty chair is a DemoncRat sign.
If people are going to start putting empty chairs on their front lawns, they should really build them from scratch and paint the words "I built this" on them.
Good blog link nick. We can now see it must have been very tempting for Clint to put a teleprompter in front of the empty chair. But that would wreck the power of simplicity.
Meanwhile the MSM are no longer hammering away at Mitt and Paul Ryan; they are distracted by this. Also the faux conservatives here at home like Diane Francis have their knickers in a knot and fun to watch.
This free viral attack ad of the empty chair/suit is in fact worth millions. The Dems can counter- attack the doddering old Clint performance at their convention but how will that play with seniors on Medicare?
The unintended consequences of this viral chair are infinite. They aren’t risk free, nor was the picking of Paul Ryan risk free, which says something about Mitt and his calculations of risk/reward.
R&R signs.
LIsten carefully Barack,
WE BUILT IT, YOU BROKE IT, WE'LL FIX IT . . . . YOU ARE FIRED!
Was just talking about how this whole cycle seems to be grass-roots driven. The GOP, and more importantly the men and women in suburbia, small towns, cities, have all gone Breitbart on the DNC.
The digital front is well in hand with the Republican amateurs and that's going to allow the pro's time to focus on the real game.
Future book title: The Internet, How the Right Won.
Scene: The White House
"Chair Empty, Lights On, But No ONE is home." (new campaign slogan)
There is a note on the kitchen table:
"Gone golfing."
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Maybe the left media thinks seniors won't vote for Obama anyway and are sacrificing them to energize the base? All I see is a bunch of jackals nipping at an honest, funny grandpa... who happens to be Clint Eastwood. They are soooo gonna regret this.
Right now there's an empty chair in New Orleans waiting for His Golfiency to show up. But today he's too busy campaigning in Iowa.
Future book title: The Internet, How the Right Won. Posted by: lance
Definitely a winner; start writing Lance.
Replace the adult chair with a baby high chair and watch the regresives really go off their rocker.
nomdeblog wrote, “We can now see it must have been very tempting for Clint to put a teleprompter in front of the empty chair. But that would wreck the power of simplicity.” Maybe nom’s just having fun, but the teleprompter on hand was actually not Clint’s (as I thought, watching the convention): it was, indeed, one of the props on the set, put there for the empty chair. Brilliant!
Clint’s performance was pure gold and is “The emperor has no clothes/The clothes have no emperor” moment of this campaign/Obama's tenure.
It’s about time.
I was going to suggest hanging one from the old oak tree,but ...........
Sorry for the obvious racist connotations to my above post,that was not intended.
However,a little tweaking and a chair hanging from the old oak tree above another chair kicked over,dated Nov.7th,would be appropriate.
Political foreboding . . .
"CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust of President Obama — an ominous beginning to what many fear is a plagued convention."
http://p.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/sep/1/rains-wash-away-mount-obama/
" a chair hanging from the old oak tree above another chair kicked over,dated Nov.7th,"
I didn't kick that,you did.
Fred
Mount Obama....heard that Reggie love rumour before.
To misquote William Hughes Mearns:
Last night I saw upon a chair
A little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away
(from Investors Business Daily sort of)
I took a look at the 'Mount Obama ' sand sculpture.
It reminds me of a cartoon character,but I can't quite place which one, maybe a Betty Boop character.
Anyways,it is creepy and probably scares children.
noted lookout thanks. I had not noticed a teleprompter.
Eastwood's description of Obama as an empty chair was brilliant. It reminded me of a poem I read to my children many times:
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/table.html
Being a nonsense poem, it sums up the Obama administration pretty well. Obama as the chair, Biden as the table and of course the dancing on their heads.
I have never been a fan of Clint's acting until now. That was very well done! In a way it reminded me of how a no-name candidate (Percy Wickman) unseated the Premier of Alberta (Don Getty) by using a stuffed chicken. Don wouldn't debate Percy so Percy dragged this over sized chicken to the debates. Needless to say Percy won!
Does anyone else think Obama's tweet should say "This seat is occupied", not taken?
Notice how the MSM, and the leftard universe is so quick to toss Clint under the bus, for daring to sully their empty suited hero.
The metaphor of the empty chair was totally lost on them, but they are losing it int heir incessant nattering.
Also sailing right over their heads, was the humour and levity of the event. Compared to the ongoing ranting and hatred of BushHitler, it was subtle, yet brilliant.
Trust the LibLeft universe to pick on an old man
Now, go to any of the msm established media on youtube, search for Clint Eastwoods speech, and see for yourself if you find it depressing.
Notice how cleverly the MSM cut out-takes from Clint's speech, that they the msm refer to, to make make him look like a senile, bumbling and crotchity old man.
Go now to Clint's ENTIRE speech and judge for yourself.
I only hope that people who got their information about Clints speech from the MSM, would take a few moments to listen to the whole thing in it's entirety.
They say when people start laughing at you.. you are done...
The Glengarrian:
It's striking how little humour has been done at Obama's expense on television, despite his dismal performance as president. Saturday Night Live, for example, has depicted him often but rarely lampooned him. Perhaps they think it would be racist to do so.
Well Clint has given everyone permission to mock Obama.
rabbit @ 9.26 pm. It started before B. Hussien's election, nobody that made fun of him had their concerns addressed, the MSM simply pointed and said then, as now, "Racist" . And this has changed very little. Michelle Malkin has a page up of the listed offensive terms.
"It's not easy being a big-eared Wee Wee married to a Wookie with a huge caboose!"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2686879/posts
Put out a chair with a Romney figure in it. You know- the person who SHOULD be running the US as opposed to the empty chair guy.
Just put my empty chair out on the front steps, thanks!
Legal Insurrection's Prof. William Jacobsen is seeking empty chair photos!
Eastwood is a genius. Unfortunately for the Dems, there are last to get it.
'Mr. Eastwood went to Washington' and reminded the politicians (Repubs and Demos) that the 'chair' belongs to US - 'We the People', Presidents and their camp followers serve at our pleasure - not the other way around. Clint Eastwood told all those 'grandstanders' in both camps that We (the people) own this nation and We let public servants go if they don't do a good job of preserving our Constitutional, God given Rights. It was a warning shot across the bow to ALL public servants, IMO.
The speech made me think that Clint watched 'Mr. Smith (Jimmy Stewart) goes to Washington' before he made the most important speech of that convention. It was a Patriot speech and I think that I heard a knocking sound in the back - many weak knees were activated, methinks, if they had the brainpower to hear just what Mr. "Make my Day" had just said.
Now called 'Eastwooding' apparently- made my day!
Danbc 7:48 In spite of the crowd's reaction, CBC has been saying Clint bombed on TV.(On their TV perhaps. Certainly not on mine.) The left didn't get Clint's jokes. If the sight of blood spray following the exit of a 44 slug from the back of a child molester/murder's head doesn't "make your day," you may miss much of his stuff.
That empty chair is becoming an Icon of Obama,s Presidency. Empty promises. Empty life, no one knows about. Empty Presidents chair, only his Golf cart sees his ass more. Empty policies that only make things worse. An empty heritage. The real Invisible man.