Clint Eastwood Delivers Bizarre, Rambling Speech To Empty Chair

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Clint Eastwood opened up the prime time portion of the Republican convention with a rambling, mumbling and often incoherent address next to an empty chair that was meant to represent President Obama.

A creaky and mumbling Eastwood began by defending Hollywood’s notorious liberal reputation to the crowd, claiming that there were in fact many independents and Republicans in show business.

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Eastwood, who did not seem to use a prepared text of any kind, went on for about 12 minutes. A Romney campaign official told CBS that Eastwood was “ad libbing.”

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Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter, who often brackets Republican speeches with fact checks and statements, offered a one word response to Eastwood’s performance on Twitter: “Wow.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/clint-eastwood-convention-speech-rnc.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

Eastwood surprises GOP convention - maybe in more ways than one
The Romney campaign planned a surprise guest to address the Republican convention here: Hollywood actor and director Clint Eastwood.

But it might have been more of a surprise than they bargained for.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/30/13577816-eastwood-surprises-gop-convention-maybe-in-more-ways-than-one?lite

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I'm not American and I don't have similar partisan interest with fellow American DUers, which gives me a different perspective.

I liked Clint's loose gun performance. I saw it as very OWSy performance for the whole nation, from old libertarian. I would not be surprised if he did the lawyer thing on purpose.