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The Clint Eastwood Embarrassment

Well, I can’t really comment on the Romney speech. Our power went down again during the thing, and only came back on about 20 minutes ago. But I did see the bizarre Clint Eastwood oration to and about the empty chair, and I thought I was watching Grampa Simpson impersonating a Ringwraith.  Clint Eastwood is […]

Well, I can’t really comment on the Romney speech. Our power went down again during the thing, and only came back on about 20 minutes ago. But I did see the bizarre Clint Eastwood oration to and about the empty chair, and I thought I was watching Grampa Simpson impersonating a Ringwraith. 

Clint Eastwood is not only an accomplished artist, he’s also cool. But man, that was embarrassing for all concerned, not only for a doddering old white man, but for the entire Republican Party. Not that it much matters, but the conservative Celebrity Auxiliary is exceedingly lame. It feels like they deploy U2, and we deploy Stryper. Anyway, Obama wins the Internet with this tweeted response:

 

 

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