Clint Eastwood Has an Encore

Clint Eastwood Has an Encore!
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Wed. Sept. 12, 2012

Eastwood says his convention appearance was ‘Mission Accomplished.’

Here are excerpts from “The Carmel Pine Cone”, by Paul Miller, published Sept. 7, 2012.

“After a week as topic No. 1 in American politics, former Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood said the outpouring of criticism from left-wing reporters and liberal politicians after his appearance at the Republican National Convention last Thursday night, followed by an avalanche of support on Twitter and in the blogosphere, is all the proof anybody needs that his 12-minute discourse discourse achieved exactly what he intended it to.

“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.”

Breaking the Silence:

“I had three points I wanted to make,” Eastwood said. “That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of promises he made when he took office, and that people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job.

“And while the Hollywood superstar has plenty of experience being adored by crowds, he said he hasn’t given a lot of speeches and admitted that, “I really don’t know how to.” He also using a teleprompter, so it was settled in his mind that when he spoke to the 10,000 people in the convention hall, and the millions more watching on television, he would do it extemporaneously.

“It was supposed to be a contrast with all the scripted speeches, because I’m Joe Citizen,” Eastwood said. “I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.”

“Eastwood is a liberal on social issues such as gay marriage and abortion, but he has strongly conservative opinions about the colossal national debt that has accumulated while Obama has been president, his failure to get unemployment below 6 percent, and a host of other economic issues.

“Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff,” Eastwood said. But what - exactly - would he say to the Republican delegates about the $16 trillion national debt and 8.3 percent unemployment rate?

“I got to the convention site just 15 or 20 minutes before I was scheduled to go on,” he said. “That was fine because everything was very well organized.” “There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down,” Eastwood said. “When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody. ..

“It’s time to elect a “stellar businessman” as president instead of a lawyer, and, as a final point, “You own this country.” When a elected official doesn’t “do the job, we’ve got to let ‘em go,” he said, and the crowd ate it up. “They really seemed to be enjoy themselves.”… “A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.”

George H. Kubeck