This is not the tweet of a confident man
Looks like Clint Eastwood got under Obama’s skin.
Obama sent this tweet today in response to Eastwood mocking Obama last night by using an empty chair as a prop (via The Rhetorican):
While I was very uncertain whether the Eastwood appearance worked, I now believe it did.
If it didn’t, Obama would not have felt the need to respond.
It must have been a late night in AxelPlouffe HQ figuring out what to do, and whether Eastwood making a mockery of Obama’s empty suit chair before tens of millions of people was something which could not be left to just the media to counter.
This is not the tweet of a confident man.
Update: That seat has been taken
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Mr. Obama, you didn’t build that chair, America did and would like it back.
Actually, the chair was probably made in china. If they want the chair back, I hope they I’ll take the arse that’s occupying it, as well.
Boyfriend
that’s priceless.
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I got you linked up, William.
He sounds like a 5th grade wannabe bully when he has his 8th grade brother standing behind him.
I suppose this means he watched the speech as well.
The picture I’d really like to see is the expression on his face after Clint was finished. Or, perhaps a side angle where we could see the steam erupting from his ears….
I already know what Michelle’s face looked like…I’ve seen that one too many times before.
I’m guessing he wore that angry, petulant look that we’ve all come to know so well.
Interesting demographic I just noticed at Facebook.
Current U.S. Results:
Updated: 08/31/12What did you think of Clint Eastwood’s appearance at the RNC?
1,408 Made my day (58.50%)
628 Unforgiven (26.09%)371
Stay off this lawn, Hollywood (15.41%)
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A confident man doesn’t hire a dunce to be his understudy. He hires someone who is at least as formidable as himself.
He did.
LOL. So true. Biden and Obama are on the same level intellectually and socially. They’re both completely clueless and classless.
Looks like another arrogant “we won” kind of stance. … and they talk about Romney being “cold” and “distant”?
No, but it is consistent with the deluded thinking of a cock-sure, clueless narcissist.
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This is one of the best applications of Saul Alinsky’s Rule #5 in modern memory. To wit:
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
The Left cannot stand or tolerate ridicule when used against them, since their entire conceit is built on the notion that they are superior to others.
Clint did in 12 minutes what 150 million dollars in Koch Money couldn’t do in two years of relentless TV ads.
Here’s how it’s done. GB Shaw once sent Churchill to tickets to opening night of a new play (don’t know which) with a note that said, “Bring a friend–if you have one.”
Churchill sent it back with a note that said, “Busy tonight. Will take tickets for second night–if there is one.”
obviously: TWO tickets. Sorry.
I love me a good Churchill comeback.
I hope Romney and Ryan put an empty chair on stage at every rally from now on. Run with it.
Kind of like having William Shatner “”singing”" Rocket Man. So “different” it’s now classic.
If Feinstein’s opponent had an empty podium “debate” to highlight the lack of real debates could Feinstein hit back with a “this podium’s taken” shot of her standing behind a different podium? No, that would be silly. So’s this.
The fact that many of his supporters think it’s not only witty but classy tells me they’re doing their best to highlight the syco in sycophant
I thought Eastwood’s talk was brilliant. Mainly because he wasn’t so much speaking to the choir, but aiming towards those not already in the Romney column, those who maybe tuned in just to see what a older famous actor had to say.
That, and the fact that he talked, more so than he gave a speech. His ‘we own this’ coupled with an appeal to people of all political stripes was a subtle (and IMO effective) means of staking claim to the center while relegating Obama (and thereby anyone who sticks with him) to the fringe.
I love hearing him referred to as an empty suit. I made a photoshop of Obama as an empty suit near the start of his term, based on his own admission that he’s a blank slate.
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The photo shows how small and petty Obama is (and how gigantic his Dumbo ears are).
The seat is taken but the only thing there is a suit.
Nah, forget the suit.
Emperor Barack I has no clothes!
Jennifer Rubin
Eastwood apparently so annoyed the egomaniacal president that the leader of the Free World felt compelled to hit back via Twitter (“this seat is taken”) at the movie star. Talk about losing your presidential aura. Empty chair = Obama is now a powerful association. Will the chair be in ads?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/clint-and-mitt-team-up/2012/08/31/50eed822-f39e-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_blog.html
The empty chair theme is now an iconic damnation of the Obama Administration. Check out the #InsertChair hastag on Twitter, for example.
Romney owes Clint Eastwood big time!
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Urkel is sitting in the Presidents chair while the President is out on a fund raising trip?
This seat is taken, and will be vacated on Nov. 6. Be patient.
Funny thing is Obama said he would not watch the GOP Convention. Another Obama promise to his base, broken.
Funny thing 2: Obama actually acknowledged the Empty Chair and the lone Teleprompter represented him.
I bet a President Clinton would laugh with the GOP: “Oh, Clint, that old rascal!” You can’t laugh at someone who laughs with you.
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What, me worry about Clint?
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“Not the tweet of a confident man”? How about, “here’s the presidency of a man with more confidence in himself than he deserves”?
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“While I was very uncertain whether the Eastwood appearance worked, I now believe it did.
If it didn’t, Obama would not have felt the need to respond.”
Seriously, professor, are we 12? Obama played off the mockery, like any politician in a tight race. And if Obama didn’t respond, I’m sure you would have had a blog post for that, too. Go back to preparing for your classes!
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