Is it just me, or is Clint Eastwood doing some rambling, embarassing shit?

[hatrack]

[spanone]

1. now he's being a smartass...fuck him

[Segami]

5. +1000.000

[polichick]

2. It ain't you.

[NV Whino]

3. Past his sell-by date

[HipChick]

4. It's bizarre...to say the least..

[Incitatus]

6. Did he really just blame Obama for the war in Afghanistan?

[jillan]

23. My jaw hit the floor on that one.

[Sedona]

7. um yeah.

He's making Caribou Barbie look coherent

(edited post because I just noticed I passed 1000)

[Jennicut]

8. He is 82. He looks like he doesn't know where he is.

I guess we all get old in the end.

[panader0]

9. Wow, he's blowing it..........

[Terra Alta]

10. he is clearly senile

someone get this man off the stage.. for his own sake.. please!!

[Mmm_Bacon]

18. Who is supposedly in the chair?

Obama?

[Terra Alta]

51. his imaginary friend?

[vanlassie]

11. OMG I'm embarrassed for him.

And I hate the guy.

[cynatnite]

12. It's bizarre, embarrassing, snide, and sad. n/t

[hatrack]

19. It's like Victoria Jackson with a .44 Magnum . . .

. . . just slightly less coherent.

Fucking pathetic.

[savalez]

67. Wow

[MariaM83]

13. didn't anybody screen his remarks???? nt

[Segami]

14. First of all Harry, Obama would never tell you to shut up...but I will....STFU!!

[Safetykitten]

16. Well, here I go again. This is a master stroke by the republicans.

Eastwood "rambling" is going to be big. Real big.

Now back to our usual programming of underestimating the republicans.

[ecstatic]

26. Interesting theory. It would keep the heat off Romney, except,

why didn't his team vet this "speech?"

[Stinky The Clown]

17. It's uh . .. . You know . . . . . Uh . . . . Why didn't . . . What ?

I won't shut up. It's my turn.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. he's SENILE!

babbling ANTIWAR crap to an empty chair???


am I hallucinating, or what?

he looks like me dad did when he had early alzheimer's.....this was before anybody knew what it was....he had that nobody-home look on his face

[Segami]

27. File his dumb ass away with Charlton ( Moses ) Heston.

[tama]

48. Antiwar is not crap.

And antiwar is not partisan issue, it's human issue.

[Gabi Hayes]

63. there's this 'literary device' often used in attempting jocosity.....

I assumed, well.....apologies if any offense taken

[MADem]

49. Perhaps he had a few mini-strokes before he took the stage.

That was humiliating--for him and his legacy, for rMoney, for the "family values" (Go fuck yourself--really?) POV of the GOP, for the nation....

Just. Fucking. Awful!

In a million years I never thought fricking RUBIO would outshine Eastwood!

[ecstatic]

21. Painful. Yet another epic fail by Rombot

And when does Obama say "shut up?" For it to be funny, it should have some similarity to reality.

[Sedona]

22. Who is Mr. Rand?

[Puregonzo1188]

24. Yes. He also just attacked the war in Afghanistan and everyone cheered.

This is so bizarre.

[Incitatus]

32. It's almost like Borat's speech at the rodeo. nt

[tama]

56. Shouldn't we all?

Clint has always been antiwar. Any American anywhere cheering against war is good sign. For all of us.

[Chorophyll]

68. Yeah, but he's apparently under the impression that Obama started the war.

I mean, he's at the Republican convention, right? Presumably these people were Bush/Cheney supporters? So the War on Terror was okay with them? But now that Obama is president, they're magically against it?

I seriously doubt anyone on this thread is in favor of Bush and Cheney's war.

[tama]

72. Just watched it

Clint is old antiwar libertarian guy and he blamed Obama for not stopping war, which was one of the "hopes" in 2008.

And he wasn't talking (between rambling) to just the crowd there, but to all "republicans, democrats and libertarians" and generally Americans, "best people". His movie audience.

And now that I'm thinking, he said FU to Romney (pretending that invisible Obama said so). Subliminal.

[Chorophyll]

73. Yeah, that must be it.

What was I thinking.

[Puregonzo1188]

70. I know Clint is anti-war, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-animal rights etc.

Which is why he struck me as such a bizarre choice for the RNC. His comment wasn't totally surprising as from the beginning I was wondering if he'd mention the war, but that was one bizarre speech. And the fact that he got a near standing ovation for ending the war struck me as odd as well.

[tama]

74. Perhaps

and probably they are just that dum. Wanted to vet Ron Paul's speach, but let Clint talk ad lib. Not much of an "endorsement", but if you are not looking through Dem eyes, that was speach for whole America.

[MariaM83]

25. they need a hook like at the Apollo Theater to get him off

or maybe they need to have an electrical problem with the microphone

[Angry Dragon]

28. Republicans want war and now they want the troops home

Clint is just lost

[Amonester]

59. Followed by a jeebus freak who wants to invade Cuba.

The whole freak show doesn't make any sense.

Maybe they crashed the clown car after all, and they're zombying around aimlessly.

[sammytko]

29. He said we don't need a lawyervrunningvthe country

Doesnt Romney have a law degree?

[hatrack]

30. "We own this country".

Oops. Nice timing, Clint.

[ecstatic]

35. He tried to clean it up...

[tritsofme]

31. This is the strangest thing I have ever seen at a convention.

[MariaM83]

33. this reminds me of that campaign stop in the middle of a Detroit Stadium that was empty

who is running the shop?

Romney's ultimately responsible, right?

Is this what we can look forward to in a Romney presidency?

[RKP5637]

34. He's really showing his age and stammering. n/t

[MADem]

36. It's not you....and the "Go fuck yourself" insinuations are hardly "family values."

He has SHAMED himself. He has put an ignominious exclamation point of shame on an otherwise storied career.

He is throwing red meat to brain-damaged lions. It's horrible to watch, but one cannot look away.

This is the "HIGH ROAD" night of the rMoney campaign? Go fuck yourself? Really?

How humiliating!!!

He's made MY day with that shitty performance.

[MariaM83]

47. ... and all of that was just for showing up at the convention before he said a word nt

[MariaM83]

37. did the teleprompters fail? or is he just blind? nt

[Terra Alta]

38. I'm embarrassed for him..nt

[bullwinkle428]

39. Is he getting heckled by Paulbots?

[smackd]

40. i don't know what I expected, but I don't think this was it

that was just...weird

[Segami]

41. REPUB STOOGE!

[Sparkly]

42. Rachel is speechless.

[Sedona]

43. Rachael is specchless

nt

[MariaM83]

44. or was he intoxicated? nt

[onecent]

45. I thought Mormons did not swear, yet Clint turns to the empty

chair and says something to the fact,
"I can't telll Pres. Obama that.."
Meaing I can't tell him to go fuck himself...

THIS IS DISGUSTIng
AND I HOPE IT COMES back to bite them good and hard.

I used to like Clint Eastwood but they must have paid him
ALOT OF MONEY

[Segami]

62. Payment will come in the form of financing HIS film projects. Ya, sure Clint, whatever you want,

we will bank all your pet film projects for you.....JUST DO THIS ONE THING FOR US!!!!

[ailsagirl]

46. Axelrod just tweeted, "What the heck IS this?"

[jillan]

54. I cannot even imagine what was going thru their heads watching that.

[ailsagirl]

58. I hate cringe-inducing situations... glad I didn't watch

[NYC Liberal]

50. Purposely lowering the bar for Romney?

Yes I've got my tinfoil hat on but I wouldn't put it past them to put someone up right before Romney who will make him seem that much better no matter how badly he does.

[tjdee]

61. Of COURSE that was the plan.

This has been the plan all day long.

Talk about how bad he is at public speaking and how terrible he is----then when he doesn't drool all over the floor, proclaim him a genius!!

This is exactly what they did with W in 2000.

The Clint Eastwood thing is just a bonus ace-in-the hole.

[MariaM83]

52. I can't even listen to Rubio because I'm still trying to digest Clint Eastwood's trainwreck nt

[MariaM83]

55. maybe it's past his bedtime nt

[Spaldeen]

53. Wow. Nope, it's not you

N/T

[Chorophyll]

57. I'm not watching, but based on the comments here...

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Wow. Disturbing. Not that I ever for a moment thought he'd say anything good, but this sounds painful.

ETA: having watched the first five minutes on Youtube:

[tjdee]

60. Meanwhile those in the hall ATE IT UP.

Cheering and a' laughing....

these people. *smh*

[progressivebydesign]

64. the tweets are priceless...

even Andrea Mitchell is going "wtf?" about his talking to a chair.

Even better tweets: "Is anyone else concerned that Eastwood is having a stroke on live tv?" "eastwood is now in the hall talking to a vending machine" "I think Clint really believes the chair is a person. awkward."

[Bryn]

69. Someone created "Invisible Obama" on Twitter

and avatar is empty chair. It's very very funny! He has over 21,000 followers already.

Invisible Obama ‏@InvisibleObama
One nation! Under God! Invisible!

Invisible Obama ‏@InvisibleObama
Did I just get invisible credit for taking out Bin Laden?

Invisible Obama ‏@InvisibleObama
Global warming's invisible too? Oh it's on now.

Invisible Obama ‏@InvisibleObama
I can see right through your lies, Mitt. #invisibologna

Invisible Obama ‏@InvisibleObama
Mitt, the last 4 years are right behind YOU. You just can't see me.

[Initech]

65. OVER?? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL NO!!!

"And it ain't over now!"
"Germans?"
"Forget it he's rolling."

[longship]

66. Indeed. He gets the Admiral Stockdale award.

Here is the original, the VEEP debate in 1992 with Dan Quayle and Al Gore.

James Stockdale universally won the sympathy vote and would have likely won Mr. Congeniality, if such a think existed. All my Dem friends and I agreed. He was both a sad case, but at least a self-effacing one. His opening line, remembered in the above video clip, will go down in history as the most humble thing ever said in a debate for national office.

One simultaneously felt sorry for him, but also respect to be brutally honest.

I liked him. I hope other DUers did, too.

I do not like Clint. And I certainly do not like any Republicans.

[nolabear]

71. Rev Al "I suspect this is not the first time he has talked to an ampty chair."

[struggle4progress]

75. "Your band ain't so great? No problem! Just hire the Tone-Deaf Kill-Timers to open your show!"