Aww. Wasn't it so sweet of President Obama to react so nicely to Clint Eastwood's RNC speech by lobbing such compliments as: "I am a huge Clint Eastwood fan" and "his movies are terrific" and he's "not offended at all" by his speech the other night. I'm sure this reaction was carefully crafted and his media lapdogs will jump all over it as another opportunity to paint Obama as just the greatest guy ever, and See! This is why he needs to be re-elected President!
But that was exactly Eastwood's point in his speech. Just because Obama is a nice guy doesn't mean he deserves to stay in office. Notice that while Obama was busy taking the higher road and saying how great Eastwood is, he wasn't addressing some of the important points that Eastwood and Republicans have continued to raise.
What about those 23 million unemployed people?
What about closing Guantanamo Bay?
What about that war in Afghanistan and all those soldiers that want to come home from that war?
Of course Obama should not be offended by Eastwood's speech. That was a dumb question for a reporter to ask him, but also a clever one because it takes the focus off the serious questions raised in the speech that we voters have a right to have answers to.
We are the ones that should be offended -- by Obama and his inability to lead this country to a better, more financially stable future. As strange or rambling Eastwood might have been in his delivery, the questions he asked of an "invisible Obama" (which pretty much nails the last four years on the head) could not have been more salient or crystal clear.
What about 'hope and change' and 'yes we can' and all those other promises that you didn't keep, Mr. President?
We're still waiting ...
Did you find Clint Eastwood's RNC speech offensive at all to the President?
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Yeah, he's "playing nice" with Clint Eastwood because he knows that Clint Eastwood's speech is so irrelevant to the problems in this country.
No. Not at all.
I'm offended that you were allowed to write this article. I'm also offended that I took time to read it.
And as someone above mentioned, many bills he attempted to pass to help the economy, weren't passed because republicans blocked them. The focus cannot be on getting the opposing party out of office, which has been all republicans have done since Jan of 2009. It's pathetic.
Regardless if you are on the left, the right, somewhere in between why are we blaming one person for the problems that our nation, our world is facing. Instead of complaining what are you doing about the problem? Are you creating opportunities for people to get jobs? Are you volunteering services like affordable day care so more people can look for work? Are you working with any committees to offer insight on how soon we can bring our soldiers home and provide them with the medical care and job opportunities they will need? Or you just someone who likes to complain and blame everything on one person? I didn't like it when they blame Bush and certainly not with Obama either. Even if you don't agree with our President in office have some type of respect.
Some people are too distracted with defending the president and his failures instead of acknowledging the failures. They would rather cling to him because he is a democrat and stick their fingers in their ears going "lalala I cant hear you" than actually listen to what anyone else has to say.
You people need to shut up and realize President Obama who shouldn't be president in the first place is ruining this country what Mr Eastwood said was right on. politically active movie stars have always spoken at the conventions as Eastwoods dear friend Paul Newman said at the 1968 Democratic convention just because we're actors doesn't mean we gave up our citizenship.