Clint Eastwood Speech....

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Only because the guy is 127 years old....

I will give him a pass...

But YIKES!!!!!!

Jason P

Glad to see he is rocking the crazy old man hairdo.

QuarterToTen

Truly mortifying and awkward for everyone involved, and even more sad.
Poor Clint certainly didn't make anyone's day.

Johnny Abruzzo

QuarterToTen wrote:

Truly mortifying and awkward for everyone involved, and even more sad.
Poor Clint certainly didn't make anyone's day.

Whatever - he's still the man.

"It's halftime in America."

Godfather.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08 ... onvention/

Godfather.

Smellyman

Fox news Headline:


Clint Eastwood stumping for Mitt Romney suggests shift in Hollywood's political paradigm, experts say

article is equally as bad.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... -shift-in/

comebackgirl

Yikes indeed :shock:

it's like when crazy grandpa wanders away from home :nono:

QuarterToTen

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Whatever - he's still the man.

"It's halftime in America."

I wasn't in any way insinuating that he isn't still the man.
I just felt very embarrassed for him last night.

What should have been the pinnacle of the convention, sadly turned into one the most awkward, disjointed and cringe worthy speeches I have ever seen, a very odd choice for a keynote speaker.

The Waiting Trophy Man

I thought he was having a stroke at one point!

Romney must have been PISSED. Especially when Clint said to imaginary Obama, "I can't tell him(Romney)to do that to himself(go fuck himself)".

What were they thinking!?

Do yourself a favor Clint and stay BEHIND the camera.

SVRDhand13

As a liberal and someone who reluctantly wants Obama to win this election, I thought Eastwood's speech was pretty entertaining. It was a nice change of the pace from the typical political garbage shoved down our throats. He did not make me think anymore of Romney, and I didn't need him to realize that Obama has not lived up to his promises, but at least the man did something different.

Johnny Abruzzo

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

I thought he was having a stroke at one point!

Romney must have been PISSED. Especially when Clint said to imaginary Obama, "I can't tell him(Romney)to do that to himself(go fuck himself)".

What were they thinking!?

Do yourself a favor Clint and stay BEHIND the camera.

He was asking questions to the chair, and I thought they would have some spliced up, hack job Obama quote (You didn't build that, etc) waiting... but there was nothing.

mikepegg44

SVRDhand13 wrote:

As a liberal and someone who reluctantly wants Obama to win this election, I thought Eastwood's speech was pretty entertaining. It was a nice change of the pace from the typical political garbage shoved down our throats. He did not make me think anymore of Romney, and I didn't need him to realize that Obama has not lived up to his promises, but at least the man did something different.

I kind of agree. For an off teleprompter performance I kind of enjoyed it. It was certainly a little akward, and it really wasn't the content of the speech that I enjoyed, it was knowing while I was watching it that everyone on this website would be calling him crazy and say how awful it was...what was awful about this statement

We -- we own it. It is not you owning it, and not
politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
And -- so -- they are just going to come around and beg
for votes every few years. It is the same old deal. But I just
think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in
the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether
you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should
not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we
got to let them go.

The only criticism I can see is not liking the idea of American exceptionalism, but I didn't take it as he was putting down the rest of the world, just telling the American people to remember that we can be great and do great things.

And the newhart style bit was a stretch for him...he should have come out as Walt...that would have gotten a shitload of people talking

Godfather.

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

QuarterToTen wrote:

Truly mortifying and awkward for everyone involved, and even more sad.
Poor Clint certainly didn't make anyone's day.

Whatever - he's still the man.

"It's halftime in America."

:thumbup:

Godfather.

hedonist

The empty-chair thing was apparently off the cuff, so I'm cutting him slack for the stumbles.

Yes, some awkward moments in there but so what? As SVRD said, a nice change-up, plus good points made.

While in my teens, I had the pleasure of having coffee with Mr. Eastwood and a few others at a local tennis club/driving range that we used to frequent. Thought he was a class-act then (and a self-made one, at that!), and now.

blackredyellow

hedonist wrote:

The empty-chair thing was apparently off the cuff, so I'm cutting him slack for the stumbles.

Yes, some awkward moments in there but so what? As SVRD said, a nice change-up, plus good points made.

While in my teens, I had the pleasure of having coffee with Mr. Eastwood and a few others at a local tennis club/driving range that we used to frequent. Thought he was a class-act then (and a self-made one, at that!), and now.

Is the RNC still saying that the chair bit was off the cuff? My only question to that is who brought the chair out? It had to be somewhat planned.

Prince Of Dorkness

That was the stupidest zombie movie I've ever seen.

The only way to end his career on a lower note would be if he's shit his pants right there.

What a humiliating display. But proof that the only celebrities republicans can get are either angry white yokels like Charlie Daniels or crazy old men like Clint Eastwood.

RFTC

one word-sabotage

clint is not senile, my guess is we get the scoop in 10 years or less when his memoirs are released.

what a way to fk up the closing night of rnc

hedonist

blackredyellow wrote:

hedonist wrote:

The empty-chair thing was apparently off the cuff, so I'm cutting him slack for the stumbles.

Yes, some awkward moments in there but so what? As SVRD said, a nice change-up, plus good points made.

While in my teens, I had the pleasure of having coffee with Mr. Eastwood and a few others at a local tennis club/driving range that we used to frequent. Thought he was a class-act then (and a self-made one, at that!), and now.

Is the RNC still saying that the chair bit was off the cuff? My only question to that is who brought the chair out? It had to be somewhat planned.

I don't know, heard the unscripted thing on the news this morning. Again, so what? Maybe he asked someone at the last minute. Maybe he said he wanted it for himself - he's an old man, after all.

Harsh crowd here! Looking forward to how the DNC is received next week :P

Johnny Abruzzo

hedonist wrote:

Harsh crowd here! Looking forward to how the DNC is received next week :P

Yeah I don't think it was as bad as some people are making it out to be. Just kind of awkward is all.

lukin2006

I thought it was quite amusing.

lukin2006

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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/usele ... ama-speech