Comments on: Eastwood’s empty chair https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: uncleFred https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-410925 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:47:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-410925 Pay back is a B*tch. The spot that Clint did for the Superbowl was spun by the left to appear an endorsement of the administration’s handing of the auto bail out. Clint maintained that, from his perspective, it was not political. The majority of the country felt that either Clint was ducking or was taken advantage of. He has now cleared that up.

It worked and it worked very well.

]]> By: Baltimoron https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-409867 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:27:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-409867 J.J.,

That’s something that got me thinking too. But I think the question might actually answer itself. He’s an 81 year old mega star, therefore he can do or say whatever he wants. Probably got sick and tired of listening to smug Hollywood liberals and one day he up and said hell with it.

]]> By: Wm Lawrence https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-409658 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:33:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-409658 Nobel Peace Prize! Not bloody likely. Clint has actually accomplished things in his life. The peace prize is reserved for incompetent anti-American poseurs such as our current CIC.

]]> By: parker https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-409155 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 07:13:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-409155 “Few have mentioned that this was something that an 81 year old mega-star didn’t have to do. Why would he bother? He doesn’t need the fame, nor the waves of hate he knew would be coming his way. I don’t know if he was asked or if he volunteered. Either way, he could have taken a pass. He didn’t. Speaks volumes.”

As LisaM notes, Clint was in his Grand Torino role ‘taking the bullet’ so as to cast doubts about the shooters, yet leaving others ‘clean’. I’m sure he enjoyed the role. I see a noble peace prize coming his way. 😉

]]> By: Don Carlos https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-409061 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 03:38:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-409061 Greatness and great moments have an odd way of coming up at critical junctures in American life.

]]> By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J. https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-409035 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:36:51 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-409035 Few have mentioned that this was something that an 81 year old mega-star didn’t have to do. Why would he bother? He doesn’t need the fame, nor the waves of hate he knew would be coming his way. I don’t know if he was asked or if he volunteered. Either way, he could have taken a pass. He didn’t. Speaks volumes.

]]> By: Curtis https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-409029 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:15:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-409029 Don’t try and figure it out.

The rain falls and makes the little
power of fall and rise a riddle
hiding power within power and purpose
the rain falls and hides all in mist.

It’s our mystery isn’t it, do it
the lamb falls, the sacrifice blew it
but left a bargain notwithstanding
we’ve left this earth’s mystery burning.

]]> By: rickl https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-409004 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:26:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-409004 I think the Empty Chair just might turn out to be Obama’s Killer Bunny moment.

Basically, it wasn’t all that different from saying that the emperor has no clothes.

]]> By: Gringo https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-408962 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-408962 texexec
I have to laugh at the MSM folks who thought his “He can’t do that to himself.” was inappropriate.

Not to mention the “shut up” that Clint had the chair say. I guffawed at them.

The ∅bama campaign has been the meanest, nastiest, most mendacious campaign that I can remember. Perhaps Tricky was worse, against Helen Gahagan Douglas in his 1950 Senate campaign, but I doubt it.While ∅bama has tried at times to distance himself from his campaign’s nasty streak, it doesn’t work, as the nastiness is done in his name, in support of him.

This was Clint Eastwood’s way of saying that a mean,nasty campaign reflects on ∅bama. The meaner and nastier and more mendacious the campaign that ∅bama runs, the more ∅bama shows himself to be mean, nasty, and mendacious.

Granted, those of us who had studied ∅bama in depth knew well before the 2012 campaign that ∅bama was mean, nasty, and mendacious. But the more ∅bama campaigns that way, the more mainstream this view of him becomes.

Clint Eastwood simply mirrored reality.

Yes, Clint Eastwood’s speech was “degrading” to the President, but only to the extent that it accurately described the President. The POTUS IS mean, nasty , and mendacious.

Who wrote Clint Eastwood’s speech? Or skit…

]]> By: Sam L. https://thenewneo.com/2012/08/31/eastwoods-empty-chair/#comment-408942 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:55:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19578#comment-408942 Much of what The One does is degrading to the Presidency. We’ve known that.

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