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Actor-Director Clint Eastwood will be speaking at the RNC
NBC News has learned the "mystery speaker" at tonight at the RNC in Tampa is none other than Oscar-nominated actor and Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood. NBC's Luke Russert reports one thing that helped tip them off was the RNC band rehearsing the theme to Dirty Harry.
One interesting thing to note ahead of Eastwood's appearance on the RNC stage is he's on record completely disagreeing with the RNC on a major social issue: marriage equality.
Under the section called "Preserving and Protecting Traditional Marriage," the RNC's platform states in part:
It has been proven by both experience and endless social science studies that traditional marriage is best for children... The success of marriage directly impacts the economic well-being of individuals. Furthermore, the future of marriage affects freedom... We recognize and honor the courageous efforts of those who bear the many burdens of parenting alone, even as we believe that marriage, the union of one man and one woman must be upheld as the national standard... We embrace the principle that all Americans should be treated with respect and dignity.
Eastwood, on the other hand, said this to GQ magazine in September of last year (emphasis added):
"I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21, because he promised to get us out of the Korean War. And over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And libertarians had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone. These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a f--k about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of."
So... there's one thing he probably won't talk about during his remarks tonight.
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One has to wonder what the Obama loving media are going to say about the fact that Obama waited two days after Issac's hurricane landfall to declare a national state of emergency for the Gulf Coast region (because he was too busy campaiging in college campus rallies in Ohio and Virginia?); George Bush declared a national state of emergency for the Gulf Coast region two days prior to landfall for the Katrina hurricane.
Bush monitored the federal involvement with the state and local officials in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana nearby in the Texas White House, and from the National Civil Defense and Emergency Preparednes Center in Colorado, and as soon as the weather cleared for a flight in, visited within three days of Katrina's landfall the Gulf States region. Obama, not so much! Too busy with campaigning, he is preparing for another holiday weekend swing through several states out of harms way to campaign for relection (even as gas prices climb to their highest record levels for a Labor Day Weekend). And no announcment out of the White House as to when and if he will visit in person the Issac hurricane wracked Gulf Coast Region.
How does this related to a Clint Eastwood appearance at the Republican National Convention, you might ask? Apparently this PUNK Obama must really feel LUCKY not to bother his relentless campaigning schedule with the duties of his Presidency. So, in those immortal words: "Do you feel lucky punk? Well...do you?"
Grandpa must be suffering a heady testosterone rush and decided to post this one twice even after I skewered it on another thread... Clint Eastwood's .44 Magnum has him drooling, no doubt and looking for some miscreants to waste...
It's $3.51 a gallon here right now, Fuzzie. It was $3.68--and went to over $4 in '08...
Yep, heckuva job there, Fuzzie... I'm sure Mr. Obama will visit the affected areas in due time, but there's a bit of a difference between a Category One storm and Katrina's Category Four...
Tell that to the suffering folks in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisina. But perhaps that delay in visiting to bring comfort and view the situations there is due to the fact that those states are going to vote their electoral votes for Obama, the Great One?
By the way, Eastwood did a marvelous job of showing that its alright to make fun of our thin skinned failed president who likes to dish it out but can't take it given back to him. Old Clint showed us in a wonderful vaudivillian skit that This would be Emperor really has no clothes, Cab Driver! LOL!
Romney visiting the gulf region now today as invited by governors; Obama? Not so much! His Press Secretary announced subsequent to the news that Romney was invited to view the damage and give words of ecourgement to the first reponders and populace in the beleagured region that Obama would make room Monday, a whole week after landfall of this power punch hurricane, just after he got several more weekend campaign trips and fund raising event...1st things first!