Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

It was just so bland. I can see, just because it's pithy, and because it seizes on one caricature of Obama, the ocean vs. your family line getting some play. Otherwise, nothing.

i don't like the focusing on clint eastwood.

i mean, he was hilarious, but msnbc nagl bashing him imho

I don't understand how anyone can watch this not on fox news

i have to wipe clint from my memory banks. jesus, jon voight is the best you can do??

"he did what he needed to do," right? the kind of thing you say when you're going to have to play the whole season with a QB who's there to "manage the game" while you go 7-9

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:23 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the Gus Frerotte of American Politics

m@tt I kiss you

i mean, he was hilarious, but msnbc nagl bashing him imho

― Mordy, Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw this is funny they love it

i mean, he was hilarious, but msnbc nagl bashing him imho

― Mordy, Friday, August 31, 2012 3:29 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're not bashing him, they're talking about how fucking awful and horrible it was to put that in your last hour of a convention

there are lots of republicans in hollywood. you know angelina jolie? well her dad is one.

I thought for sure Clint would be speaking at like 6pm or something

eric roberts, bonnie franklin, i could go on and on.

I only caught bits of the end of Mitt's speech but Chris Matthews said nobody applauded the line about helping the poor?

http://gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=2036603&t=o

(made that up. do not know their affiliations. eric roberts somehow the first person i thought of after jon voight. don't know where bonnie franklin came from.)

Even Gergen's ridiculing the 12-million-jobs promise. "Excuse me?"

times must be rly tough for the gop when they can't find an old white rich guy who's actually a republican to fill their guest spot.

Don't forget Vincent Gallo.

Republicans in Hollywood: Eastwood, Voight, Thompson... Stephen Baldwin... Kirk Cameron... Lisa Welchel

it's kinda tragic how badly the republicans want celebrities to like them

i'm predicting a historically mediocre convention bump

I already predicted 0

janine turner spoke already, guys!

half the msnbc panel trying desperately to give Romney some credit the other half just openly laughing at the whole thing

I already predicted 0

― iatee, Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:37 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

Don't forget John Milius. He's a big name these days.

Sorry to harp, but the TPM cutline must be intriguing for anyone who missed it: "Clint Eastwood opened up the primetime portion of the Republican convention with a rambling, mumbling and often incoherent address next to an empty chair that was meant to represent President Obama."

http://jezebel.com/5939444/a-romney-grandkid-just-put-on-the-they-live-glasses-and-is-freaking-out

yeah the clint thing is gonna go viral and 'the internet matters' by now

poor gus

I followed the last campaign reallllly closely and heard most all the major political/policy speeches Obama has given since being elected, and I have zero, zero recollection of him making any memorable and direct promises about "healing the planet" and whatever.

Seemed so out of left field as an attack, because who remembers Obama having said any such thing or anything even resembling it?

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:16 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/03/obamas-nomination-victory_n_105028.html

Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals. Thank you, God Bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.

tellingly if you google the phrase "the oceans began to recede" you only get rightwing shit

i'm experiencing this event solely thru this this thread, thankig u

feel kinda bad for clint tbh.

poor angry old world-historically talented coot.

anyone who agrees to speak at the GOP convention is on their own afaic

I do love his movies tho

duh, so that's where it's from. but it hasn't seemed to be much mentioned ever since

line about oceans/planets etc

having Clint do that speech was total Michael Steele/CPAC amateurville

I agree with what someone posted above, right after Eastwood finished; that the weirdness was grew out of his mixed feelings, not his age. He really wasn't very critical of Obama at all.

(delete "was")

madow pointing out that Clint was the first thing network viewers saw, not mitts happy video, not rubio, but a strange old man talking to a chair

clint doesn't need your damn pity

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/753052/thumbs/s-RNC-UNSPOKEN-MESSAGES-large300.jpg

Robot arms

feel like Clint's apparently been going to the Oscars for years and only going up onstage to collect awards, all the while wishing it was him and not Billy Crystal up there doing the jokes and wacky skits

madow pointing out that Clint was the first thing network viewers saw, not mitts happy video, not rubio, but a strange old man talking to a chair

a strange old man who's been a huge box office draw since the '60s. i'm giddy to watch the clip but i don't think clint's going to alienate swing voters or anything.

CNN's "independent" focus group--i.e., Republican-leaning--indifferent about Romney's speech.

feel like mitt's trying on his john saxon in hadrian's pic there

a strange old man who's been a huge box office draw since the '60s. i'm giddy to watch the clip but i don't think clint's going to alienate swing voters or anything.

― da croupier, Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:59 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what its gonna do is overshadow mitts speech

what isn't

Wolf Blitzer's mad because Eastwood was disrespectful to the president!