[Leonard Pinth-Garnell]“There… That wasn’t so good now, was it?”[/LP-G]
Actually, looking at it from down here, a number of us at the office have sort of reached a consensus that Clint’s “cranky old man yelling at an imaginary Obama” skit was not so appallingly horrible per se, but certainly was nowhere near the level expected of him, or for anyone in the time slot they put him in. It would probably have fit more during the undercard on Wednesday, better yet if done as a *produced *video sketch to be shown in between live orators.
To be fair, it could have been effective with some good writing and rehearsal. But a cold improv (at least that’s how it appeared) was a recipe for disaster.
I have never heard of Mia Love before this week, thought she was somebody of some significance, and thought the bolded part was some throwaway joke about some imaginary town, like Bumfuck, Egypt. I apologize. BFE has a much larger population than Saratoga Springs, Utah.
ETA: But Saratoga Springs (not the one where they invented the potato chip) is much bigger than Wasilla, Alaska.
If you watch ‘Mittens’, (and keep watching), you will notice he is trying to be Ronald Reagan. “Make my day!” He is No Ronald Reagan. President Reagan understood “the common man.”
What the figure depicts nicely is just how change has occurred over that time. You may recall a little thing that happened, oh, around the end of 2008. Some people call it the worst economic collapse in generations?
What’s remarkable is that job loss was curbed almost immediately, and within a little more than a year, we started to see job gains.
Thanks for the link, but why do I want Nonfarm Employment? Why don’t I just want “Employed,” which shows 142.187 million for Jan 2009, and 142.220 million for July 2012?
I’m sure that economists have their reasons for excluding those jobs for certain purposes, but I see no reason to exclude them when making the claim that more people are working now than when Obama took office. So I retract my thanks for the correction. But I repeat my thanks for the links.
But that’s a good thing, right? Less government means less government workers; it’s conservative principles in action. Obama is a conservative; who knew?
Yeah and it decreased from from 9.1% a year ago, and 10% in October 2009. I’d call that improvement.
Sure, we would all prefer it to be better, it has improved. It would have been far worse without the stimulus package, and we wouldn’t have had that if McCain had been elected.
Remember when Joaquim Phoenix came on the Letterman Show, long hair, he looked out of it, disheveled, telling Letterman he was going to quit acting? Letterman didn’t know what to make of it, and the upshot was a lot of press the next day, and Phoenix became a laughing stock. Well months past and finally Phoenix came back on the show, seemingly to apologize. We learned that Letterman had been had, that Phoenix did the stunt as part of a documentary and he was really fine.
Just putting it out there. I’ve got a nagging feeling about this. Less than 8 months ago we saw Clint on television doing an amazing Chrysler commercial, completely contrary to Romney’s policy on Detroit. Then we learned that Clint simply “showed up” to a Romney fundraiser and did a great Eastwoodesque speech. So the Romney staffers figured he was just going to do the same thing.
All of a sudden, Last night we see the same Clint, who btw just completed acting/directing another feature film, (Trouble with the Curve) http://www.tribute.ca/trailers/trouble-with-the-curve/18812/ now his hair random, seemingly incoherent at times, saying to Invisible Obama, “You want me to tell Romney to do what?” I can’t do that "
And the uptake
Romney off the front page, replaced by a chair a basic train wreck.
All of a sudden there’s a renewed interest in next week’s convention.
Clint reassured the people backstage that he knew what he was doing. It’s an old professional acting trick. You always intentionally blow the first take so you can relax and do it right.
The performance pretty much definitely helped Obama. Yes, it’s possible Eastwood really is the Obama supporter he seemed to be in the Chrysler commercial, and so good an actor that he fooled Romney and his staff into thinking the opposite, and so skilled at improv that he can play a confused old geezer while shrewdly tailoring his performance to achieve a fairly-subtle effect. It’s also possible that he really is a confused old geezer now, still skilled at performing a script but lost without one.
The puzzling thing is why Romney and the RNC organizers would have thought Eastwood would be on their side at all, much less to the point that they put their fate so completely in his hands. But their bumbling has been a painfully obvious pattern already.
