<<<<<< This is an unscripted 10 minute speech that was both cogent and plainly critical of Obama. Read the text for yourself. Eastwood, in fact, is not speaking as a politician, but, rather, as an everyday citizen who has lost enthusiasm for Barack Obama and his do nothing Administration. The talk makes perfect sense and is not the bumbling antics of a tired old man, as the Left would have you believe, and . . . . . "the people" loved it. --- blog editor.
EASTWOOD: Thank you very much. Thank
you. Thank you very much. Save a little for Mitt.
(APPLAUSE) I know what you are
thinking. You are thinking, what’s a movie tradesman doing out here? You know
they are all left wingers out there, left of Lenin. At least that is what
people think. That is not really the case. There are a lot of conservative
people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is
just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer
to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
(APPLAUSE)
So -- but they are there, believe
me, they are there. I just think, in fact, some of them around town, I saw Jon
Voight, a lot of people around.
(APPLAUSE)
Jon’s here, an academy award winner.
A terrific guy. These people are all like-minded, like all of us.
So I -- so I’ve got Mr. Obama
sitting here. [Eastwood points to an empty chair he has placed on the stage, next to the podium] And he’s -- I was going to ask him a couple of questions. But --
you know about -- I remember three and a half years ago, when Mr. Obama won the
election. And though I was not a big supporter, I was watching that night when
he was having that thing and they were talking about hope and change and they were
talking about, "yes we can," and it was dark outdoors, and it was nice, and
people were lighting candles.
They were saying, I just thought,
this was great. Everybody is crying, Oprah was crying.
(LAUGHTER)
And at this point in his speech, he made his most impactive statement. As he spoke of the unemployed, his eyes teared up as he emotionally said . . .
I was even crying. And
then finally -- and I haven’t cried that hard since I found out that there is
23 million unemployed people in this country.
(APPLAUSE)
Now, that is something to cry for
because that is a disgrace, a national disgrace, and we haven’t done enough,
obviously -- this administration hasn’t done enough to cure that. Whatever
interest they have is not strong enough, and I think possibly now, it may be
time for somebody else to come along and solve the problem.
(BIG APPLAUSE)
So, Mr. President [as he addresses the empty chair] how do you handle
promises that you have made when you were running for election, and . . . . . . . . [well] . . . . . how do you
handle them?
[At this point, Eastwood pretends that Obama is attempting to say something in response. What appears to "stumbling," in the speech, is Clint's "exchange" with Obama. Clint begins his point, Obama is interrupting, and, finally, tells Eastwood to shut up.]
I mean, what do you say to people?
Do you just -- you know -- I know -- people were wondering -- you don’t --
handle that OK. Well, I know even people in your own party were very
disappointed when you didn’t close Gitmo. And I thought, well closing Gitmo --
why close that, we spent so much money on it. But, I thought maybe as an excuse
-- what do you mean shut up?
(LAUGHTER)
OK, I thought maybe it was just
because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York
City.
(BIG APPLAUSE)
I’ve got to, to hand it to you. I
have to give credit where credit is due. You did finally overrule that [referring to Obama/Holder's civilian trial idiocy] finally.
And that’s -- now we are moving onward. I know you were against the war in
Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know,
I mean -- you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the
Russians to see how did -- they did there for 10 years.
(BIG APPLAUSE)
But we did it, and it is something
to be thought about, and I think that, when we get to maybe -- I think you’ve
mentioned something about having a target date for bringing everybody home. You
gave that target date, and I think Mr. Romney asked the only sensible question,
you know, he says, “Why are you giving the date out now? Why don’t you just
bring them home tomorrow morning?”
(APPLAUSE)
And I thought -- I thought, yeah --
I am not going to shut up, it is my turn.
(LAUGHTER)
{At this point, Clint returns to his "conversation" with Obama
So anyway, we’re [you and I, Mr. Obama] going to have --
we’re going to have to have a little chat about that. And then, I just
wondered, all these promises -- I wondered about when the -- what do you want
me to tell Romney? [apparently Obama says something that can't be repeated and Clint says . .]
I can’t tell him to do that. I can’t tell him to do that to
himself.
(BIG LAUGHTER)
You’re crazy, you’re absolutely
crazy. You’re getting as bad as Biden.
(MORE LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)
Of course we all now Biden is the
intellect of the Democratic party.
(LAUGHTER)
Kind of a grin with a body behind
it.
(LAUGHTER)
But I just think that there is so
much to be done, and I think that Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are two guys that can
come along. See, I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to the
president, anyway.
(LOTS OF LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)
I think attorneys are so busy -- you
know they’re always taught to argue everything, and always weight everything --
weigh both sides . . . . . I think attorneys are so busy --
you know they’re always taught to argue everything, always weigh everything,
weigh both sides.
EASTWOOD: They are always devil’s
advocating this and bifurcating this and bifurcating that. You know all that
stuff. But, I think it is maybe time -- what do you think [addressing the empty chair] -- for maybe a
businessman. How about that?
(MUCH APPLAUSE)
A stellar businessman. Quote,
unquote, “a stellar businessman.”
And I think it’s that time. And I
think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can
maybe still use a plane.
(APPLAUSE)
Though maybe a smaller one. Not that
big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student
loans and stuff like that.
(MUCH LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)
You are an -- an ecological man. Why
would you want to drive that truck around? [Eastwood refers to the presidential plane Obama's uses as a campaign vehicle - illegally, I might add].
OK, well anyway. All right, I’m
sorry. I can’t do that to myself either.
(APPLAUSE)
I would just like to say something,
ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that,
you, we -- we own this country.
(MUCH APPLAUSE)
We -- we own it. It is not you
owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
(APPLAUSE)
And -- so -- they are just going to
come around and beg for votes every few years. It is the same old deal. But I
just think it is important that you [talking to the folks in the convention and those watching on television] realize , that you’re the best in the
world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian
or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when
somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
(MUCH APPLAUSE)
Okay, just remember that. And I’m
speaking out for everybody out there. It doesn’t hurt, we don’t have to be
(AUDIENCE MEMBER): (inaudible - but it appears that the listener was asking Eastwood to say, "Go ahead and make my day."]
(LAUGHTER)
I do not say that word anymore.
Well, maybe one last time.
(LAUGHTER)
We don’t have to be -- what I’m
saying, we do not have to be mental masochists and vote for somebody that
we don’t really even want in office just because they seem to be nice guys or
maybe not so nice guys, if you look at some of the recent ads going out there,
I don’t know.
(APPLAUSE)
But OK. You want to make my day?
(APPLAUSE)
All right. I started, you finish it.
[Eastwood says] Go ahead, [and the audience said} Make my day !!
EASTWOOD: Thank you. Thank you very
much.
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