In every speech given at the Republican National Convention, Barack Obama appeared.
Mentioned twice as often as Romney throughout the roster of speakers, attacks on Obama often comprised the bulky middle of remarks bookended with praise for Romney.
On the final night of the GOP convention, there were tears, female leaders like Jane Edmonds lauding Romney as "authentic," and overworked skeet-shooting Olympic metaphors, but those were mostly filler between zingers on Obamacare, national debt, and the economy.
This was to be expected, given the previous two nights' pattern of dropping five or so questions about Obama policies in a row.
During a wandering monologue delivered to an empty chair meant to represent Barack Obama, surprise guest Clint Eastwood went off-script, asking his furniture prop a series of questions. Known for his gritty punchlines, the actor's delivery faltered somewhere between King Lear and film director Wes Anderson's character Ritchie Tenenbaum taking off his socks in mid-court during a tennis championship.
Like other speakers this week, Eastwood's words did not explicitly mention Romney when arguing for the timeliness of the Republican candidate. "Now, possibly, it may be time for someone else," Eastwood said quietly, as if in conversation with the teleprompter.
Before the final speeches began, the Internet had already claimed @InvisibleObama, a tweeting chair ready to take Reddit AMA requests. Obama had been referenced all week; tonight his presence was recognized on the stage, as Eastwood even rescinded a teasing admonishment to the chair, complaining about Air Force One's fuel efficiency before admitting he was perhaps the wrong person to level that complaint.
Praise for Romney was the early theme of the night, swinging back toward attacks on Obama from a candidate that struggles to talk about his own record. Thematic words for the week include: exceptional, Reagan, hands, milk (all varieties of), love, golf, Ann, Bain (it reappeared tonight), and Mom.
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| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Electoral Votes (270 to win) |
332 | 206 |
| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 65,899,660 | 60,932,152 |
| Percent | 51.1% | 47.2% |
| Democrats* | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Current Senate | 53 | 47 |
| Seats gained or lost | +2 | -2 |
| New Total | 55 | 45 |
| Democrats | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Seats won | 201 | 234 |
Loving your ringing endorsement, Callahan...
He was seen together with Jeff Dunham last week. Wonder what he's up to:-)
He's good. And smart.
Too good for that doddering, demented rountine. Too smart for the present day GOTP.
I am suspicious of the entire schtick and how it caused the GOTP to blow the convention.
Could it have been intentional? I guess we'll never know for sure.......and yet.......?
If Field Marshall Goring walked through the door we'd be attacking Mexico yesterday.
Eastwood has always been known for his bravery in his movies.
How brave was it to tell a chair to shut up ?
The chair could not defend itself, an inanimate object, defenseless against a human.
If he had kicked the chair down, could it have righted itself?
If you cut it, will it bleed ?
If you tickle it , will it laugh ?
If you poison it, will it die ?
If you wrong it, can it exact revenge ?
I apologize for misquoting Shakespeare, but I had to take it to it's most ridiculous conclusion, for ridiculous it was and it was absolute.
Are you ready for Secretary of Health and Human Services Rick Santorum (or worse Tod Akin)? Ambassador to Israel Sheldon Adelson? Secretary of State Jon Bolton....Homeland Security Secretary Rick Perry? Ohhh yea-one more thing-just imagine who Romney will put on SCOTUS to replace Justice Ginsberg....we'll have a 40 yr old person that makes Scalia look, well, liberal.
Think about it...ready to vote?
And .. Quite frankly, it might be wise to recognize his approach as a different kind of teaching style, a style that quite possibly hits home with different learning styles like the type 1s and 3s that often get neglected in formal settings.
One last point .. As we age we care ever less what other people think. With that in mind, he was probably the perfect messenger for this approach to getting the party line out to people who think a bit differently.
GOING TO MAKE MY DAY.
ROMNEY / RYAN 2012.