{"id":8941,"date":"2012-08-31T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2012-09-02T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T14:44:02","slug":"clint-eastwood-argues-with-stool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/clint-eastwood-argues-with-stool\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood Argues With Stool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what might go down as one the oddest things I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life<\/p>\n<p>Clint Eastwood was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yoqKdWY692k\">&#8220;special guest&#8221;<\/a> at the final night of the convention<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8943\" title=\"Clint Eastwood at GOP 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Clint-Eastwood-at-GOP-2012-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"167\" \/>(My &#8220;Gary Busey&#8221; impression)<\/p>\n<p>He came out. He looked older, weaker, and far less a man in far bigger a<\/p>\n<p>suit. His hair was sticking up higher, his voice weaker. He rambled, and<\/p>\n<p>he stumbled. He talked to an empty chair as if the person sittin&#8217; in it was<\/p>\n<p>the president of the United States, Barrack Obama. At one point, he then<\/p>\n<p>pretended the POTUS asked him to stop talking &#8220;I&#8217;m  not going to shut up&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8944\" title=\"Clint Eastwood GOP 2012 chair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Clint-Eastwood-GOP-2012-chair-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Clint-Eastwood-GOP-2012-chair-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Clint-Eastwood-GOP-2012-chair.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/>(It won&#8217;t answer back)<\/p>\n<p>said Eastwood to the chair. &#8220;It&#8217;s my turn&#8221;. But he wasn&#8217;t done yet. Oh no<\/p>\n<p>He had 5 minutes. He took 12. But the creepiest part was this thing to me<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When somebody does not do the job, we&#8217;ve got to let them go&#8221; *Eastwood <\/em><br \/>\n<em>made a throat-slitting gesture* &#8220;I&#8217;m speaking out for everybody out there. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>We don&#8217;t have to&#8230;vote for somebody we don&#8217;t really want in office.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em>He has officially now become an insane shell of a man. That saddens me<\/p>\n<p>The reality show was one thing, but this is either a man about to die, or<\/p>\n<p>a man who is now one clown short of a full circus. This whole post both<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8945\" title=\"Clint Eastwood GOP 2012 chair talk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Clint-Eastwood-GOP-2012-chair-talk-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Clint-Eastwood-GOP-2012-chair-talk-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Clint-Eastwood-GOP-2012-chair-talk.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/>(&#8220;Oh is this seat taken?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>hurts &amp; it saddens me. He&#8217;ll always be a great actor, director, &amp; man, but<\/p>\n<p>now has a big smudge at the end. It is hard to watch your hero&#8217;s douche<\/p>\n<p>it up hard. But he did, &amp; this will go down as the oddest convention flop<\/p>\n<p>He was the first speaker. Then Marco Rubio was going to introduce Mitt<\/p>\n<p>The worst loser of the night was Mitt because he gave a good speech. Not<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8946\" title=\"Mitt Romney GOP 2012 convnetion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-GOP-2012-convnetion-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-GOP-2012-convnetion-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-GOP-2012-convnetion.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/>(Let me shake YOUR hand)<\/p>\n<p>a great one, but good. The bottom line is I want to know more about him<\/p>\n<p>His story IS interesting. He is someone who&#8217;s upbringing I like. But that&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>only 20% of the story. What about the other 80%. HIS plan, his views on<\/p>\n<p>stuff, his taxes, his bold ideas to turn things around. He has never said<\/p>\n<p>anything. Not a thing. Platitudes are neat, but where is the meat? There<\/p>\n<p>is none right now. And that is a BIG problem for this Republican ticket<\/p>\n<p>Along with the Medicare lie <em>again<\/em>, &amp; mocking Obama. It&#8217;s all they have<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8947\" title=\"Mitt Romney GOP 2012 convention talking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-GOP-2012-convention-talking-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-GOP-2012-convention-talking-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mitt-Romney-GOP-2012-convention-talking.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/>(Where&#8217;s the policy meat?)<\/p>\n<p>All flash, with Obama bashing but zero substance won&#8217;t win. Policy will<\/p>\n<p>Mitt&#8217;s mini shine was just tarnished when Clint&#8217;s &#8220;crazy&#8221; stole the show<\/p>\n<p>And when Mitt said, &#8220;I <em>wanted<\/em> Obama to succeed&#8221;, all I could think at<\/p>\n<p>the time was &#8220;You&#8217;re so full of shit, you&#8217;re a brand new shade of brown&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have a weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what might go down as one the oddest things I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life Clint Eastwood was a &#8220;special guest&#8221; at the final night of the convention (My &#8220;Gary Busey&#8221; impression) He came out. He looked older, weaker, and far less a man in far bigger a suit. His hair was sticking up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}