CLINT MADE MY DAY

Clint Eastwood’s empty chair parody of the current President was metaphorically salient in a number of ways. The first way is obvious in that it was intended to represent a loss of re-election and a one term president.


The second way was that even as Obama sits on the presidential chair he has been absent in his role of leader failing to perform his sworn duties by both ineptness and abdication of responsibility.

The third way was to present the legacy left behind by the ex-president in the wake of his defeat for the history books to remember him as an empty leader. A President that both failed to resolve the country’s problems and gained his seat through empty promises unfulfilled.

Lastly, but no less metaphorically significant is the President’s empty re-election campaign message. Not running on his record because it is too abysmal to tout, Obama instead has run a nasty, despicable attack the other guy campaign. Vote for me because Romney is worse is a devoid, vacuous and empty rationale far removed from “Hope and Change.”

This is why Eastwood included in the imaginary parody of the president’s likely response if he were sitting away from the teleprompter podium and what he would be thinking and saying. “No, Mr. President I can’t say that and I don’t think it is possible for me to do that” is very consistent with the president’s callousness toward our nation’s problems.

When millions of Americans are out of work and the President says the “private sector is doing fine” isn’t that telling Americans to go “Blank themselves”?

When the President ignores Congress and re-writes immigration laws to allow illegal aliens to violate our laws and compete with legal immigrants for jobs and benefits isn’t he telling Americans to go “Blank themselves”?

When the American public want answers to “Fast and Furious” and how and why our government could authorize the sale of weapons to ruthless murdering Mexican drug thugs and he protects his Attorney General Holder by Executive Privilege isn’t he telling Americans to go “Blank themselves”?

When the President tells the Catholic Church that they must fund abortion and contraceptives against the 1st Amendment right of religion to be free of government dictates isn’t he telling all God-loving and constitution-loving Americans to go “Blank themselves”?

When the President states that entrepreneurs should not feel smarter or take credit for the building of their businesses isn’t he telling Americans to go “Blank themselves”?

When the President trips to Martha’s Vineyard, incessantly plays golf and spends most of his Presidency campaigning rather than leading in times of crises isn’t he telling all Americans to go “Blank themselves”?

When the President apologizes to countries overseas for our role over the
years in Foreign Policy as though American has been a saboteur instead of savior to the world isn’t he telling America to go “Blank itself”?

Clint Eastwood’s expose of what most Americans know is the unspoken truth about any callous and absent individual whether it is a deserting father, a parent un-visited in a nursing home, a friend that stood you up or a employee that never showed up for work, we all think the same thing in our minds “Gee I guess they just told me to blank myself.”

President Obama has either with complete inability or with cold calculation

ignored the country. Obama partisan Presidency has ignored leading ALL Americans that the highest office in the free world demands.

Obama has ignored our Constitution by executive fiat. He has ignored Congress. He has ignored our military both fighting overseas and resting in peace in honor. He has ignored the unsustainable debt and deficit even by ignoring his own commission.

He has been quick to “Beer Summit” a stupidly foolish but turns out warranted arrest of his professor colleague and waxes romantically about an imaginary son (Travon Martin) yet is silent while many die daily in gang violent cities. (Chicago)

He has spilled America’s covert secrets to his favorite loyal media rag the

New York Times undermining all Americans security for the sole purpose to make his image stronger for re-election without concern for the damage it does to anyone else.


Yes, Clint Eastwood’s parody was a direct Dirty Harry hit on the truth’s bulls-eye that would be funny if it were not so tragic at the same time.

Given that this president has chided, dictated, ignored, abdicated and fomented divisiveness among Americans maybe an empty chair for the last four years would seem preferable than the empty soul that sits on that chair.

Maybe Clint is wrong in that this president can go “Blank himself” because he has shown a great and consistent skill to “Blank” our country and wants to move “Forward” to “Blank us” some more. Go ahead Mr. President continue to campaign to divide us but I do feel lucky to have Romney and Ryan to make America’s new and hopeful day!