Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 14:16     Subject: Clint Eastwood
Anonymous wrote:I've never understood why, as a country, we're supposed to think more highly of someone's political opinions just because they're an actor or otherwise famous. How does that make their opinion more important or more valid than anyone else's? He doesn't deserve any more than anyone else - he gets one vote just like everyone else. Just because he used to act, I'm supposed to care what he has to say on this issue? I don't think so. (And yes, this goes for the celebrities that either party uses in this way.)


Celebrities are used to attract attention in politics, the same way they're used to hawk purses. Or shoes. Or yogurt.

Although, I agree, it's one thing when Brooke Shields 'endorses' Lazy-Boy furniture, and it's another when Clint Eastwood starts babbling about politics.

Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 14:13     Subject: Clint Eastwood
Anonymous wrote:Which wife and which set of kids. He has 7 kids from 5 different wifes/girlfriends. If he was poor or working-class the GOP would call him all kinds of terrible ugly names.

+1000
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 14:08     Subject: Clint Eastwood
I've never understood why, as a country, we're supposed to think more highly of someone's political opinions just because they're an actor or otherwise famous. How does that make their opinion more important or more valid than anyone else's? He doesn't deserve any more than anyone else - he gets one vote just like everyone else. Just because he used to act, I'm supposed to care what he has to say on this issue? I don't think so. (And yes, this goes for the celebrities that either party uses in this way.)
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:41     Subject: Re:Clint Eastwood
Anonymous wrote:Weird and incoherent. Painful to watch. He didn't know where he was going at all. But most of all, tasteless and off-base. Can you ever imagine Barack Obama saying "shut up" or "Go F yourself." Not in a million years. It's beneath Eastwood and I thought better of him. Always respected his views on many issues and his independence. This just shows he's no better than Limbaugh or any of those other half-wits.


+1 He is really a sob. I have always disliked him personally, though. He's an actor/director. Entertaining and skillful at that, but should just stfu about politics.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:32     Subject: Clint Eastwood
Anonymous wrote:He sounded insane. Wasn't funny. At all.


+1.

Senility isn't something to laugh at.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:29     Subject: Clint Eastwood
^^ is^^
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:28     Subject: Clint Eastwood
Anonymous wrote:He reminded of the crazy old man in the grocery checkout line who just starts going off about something. You feel kind of sorry for him so you try to be polite, but you just can't wait to get out of there.


So Clint in the GOP's Biden?
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:26     Subject: Clint Eastwood
He reminded of the crazy old man in the grocery checkout line who just starts going off about something. You feel kind of sorry for him so you try to be polite, but you just can't wait to get out of there.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:25     Subject: Clint Eastwood
Anonymous wrote:It is interesting to me that Clint Eastwood, the great patriotic American, is horribly disrespectful to the President of the United States at the Republican Natl Convention in front of millions, and this is seen as fine. Any Republicans out there want to weigh in on this? Justify it? Run from it? Oh well, I guess it is OK if Obama is President since he is a Kenyan-born, Muslim, Communist, Anti-colonialist. . He is not a "real" American.


I have to agree with this.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:23     Subject: Clint Eastwood
It was just sad.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:21     Subject: Re:Clint Eastwood
There are people who really thought that confused old geezer was hysterical? Curious sense of humor.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:20     Subject: Re:Clint Eastwood
Weird and incoherent. Painful to watch. He didn't know where he was going at all. But most of all, tasteless and off-base. Can you ever imagine Barack Obama saying "shut up" or "Go F yourself." Not in a million years. It's beneath Eastwood and I thought better of him. Always respected his views on many issues and his independence. This just shows he's no better than Limbaugh or any of those other half-wits.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 13:03     Subject: Clint Eastwood
Oh, ladies, you are making my day!
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 12:55     Subject: Clint Eastwood
Which wife and which set of kids. He has 7 kids from 5 different wifes/girlfriends. If he was poor or working-class the GOP would call him all kinds of terrible ugly names.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2012 11:00     Subject: Clint Eastwood
His wife and kids have a show on E!, a Kardashian style show.