Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #23--Clint Eastwood

After the debacle that was Clint Eastwood's performance at the republican National Convention this year, republicans were wont to complain that Democrats were using a double standard:  it was perfectly okay for Democrats to cheer on Bill Maher, Barbra Streisand, or Jon Stewart, but not for the republicans to react in kind to Clint Eastwood?

Um...the big difference is that we weren't fucking stupid enough to put our celebrities on two spots before our party's nominee and even if we had, we certainly wouldn't have let him have free reign with his script, and we most assuredly wouldn't have put someone up there who was anti-choice and an opponent of LGBT rights.  Which is exactly what the republicans, and by extension, Willard's campaign chose to do.

Do we really want an administration that would fuck up one of the most important moments of its campaign so badly?  I mean these conventions are scripted down to when it's appropriate to fart and they put an addled old coot out there with completely free reign to talk to a fucking chair? 

Give me a fucking break--I wouldn't have these idiots cut my lawn, let alone run the most powerful country in the world.

Peace,
emaycee

What a difference a day makes

This was the Detroit Free Press on Friday morning, trumpeting Clint Eastwood's  speech at the RNC Convention the prior evening.

This was the Detroit Free Press on Saturday morning, letting us know (about 24 hours too late) that, well, maybe, after all, it wasn't received all that well outside of mainstream republicans.

Fucking seriously?  It took the Free Press 24 hours to figure this out?  For fuck's sake, I was on the web all night Thursday and the speech was almost universally panned.  Twitter had dozens of negative comments just on the couple of sites I was following that night.

I appreciate that their readership continues to fall and that they're trying to swing a little to the right to garner more republican subscribers (and good luck with that), but Jesus H. Christ this was like a man with a tin ear trying to play a guitar.  Just brutal.

Peace,
emaycee

Presto!

So after all the speculation about the mystery speaker before Marco Rubio introduces the republican nominee tonight, it turns out to be Clint Eastwood...who is basically...an angry white male. 

Imagine that.

Ought to garner Willard at least another two or three votes he doesn't already have.

Peace,
emaycee