Clint Eastwood's Speech to Invisible President Obama at GOP Convention 8/30/12

It was a great bit of comedic improvisation from iconic film legend Clint Eastwood at last night's GOP convention. If you missed it: 



Dennis Miller said it best on his AM Talk Radio show this morning, "you know how badly things are screwed up when you see Clint Eastwood expose himself to the cross hairs of such a rancor filled discussion" or something to that effect. Go to the link and the show might be up.

What I saw was Clint channeling Gary Trudeau and parodying the "invisible George Bush" character in a way that Liberals and people familiar with the Doonesbury comic strip were sure to understand.

From Wikipedia:

Members of the Bush family have been depicted as invisible. During his term as Vice President, George H. W. Bush was first depicted as completely invisible, his words emanating from a little “voice box” in the air. This was originally a reference to the man’s perceived low profile and his denials of knowledge of the Iran-Contra Affair. (In one strip, published March 20, 1988, the vice president almost materialized, but only made it to an outline before reverting to invisibility.^[5])

Later, George W. Bush was symbolized by a Stetson hat atop the same invisible point, because he was Governor of Texas prior to his presidency (Trudeau accused him of being “all hat and no cattle”, reiterating the characterization of Bush by columnist Molly Ivins). The point became a giant asterisk (a la Roger Maris) following the 2000 presidential elections and the controversy over vote-counting. Later, President Bush’s hat was changed to a Roman military helmet (again, atop an asterisk) representing imperialism. Towards the end of his first term, the helmet became battered, with the gilt work starting to come off and with clumps of bristles missing from the top. By late 2008, the helmet had been dented almost beyond recognition. No symbol for Barack Obama has appeared in the strip; the May 30, 2009 strip showed Obama and an aide wondering what the reason for this might be.^[6]

So Clint was quite creative, witty and sharp to point out that we've been there before. In his 82 years he felt it was important enough to speak up and make a point. Unfortunately, the point might have been too subtle for people to catch. As Clint mentioned Conservative don't go hotdogging around. 

As far as trying to get him to say "make my day."  
You could see that he was weary that he was seen not as a man, or a citizen heck or even a Republican, but as a character, the police officer, Harry Callahan.

Maybe that is what the GOP really wants, a character, someone who will project an image of being able to get anything done by any means necessary. But that is another story...