Original photo found over on ABC News
The original title of this post was going to be “Go Fuck Yourself” but then I didn’t want to spoil the entire topic of this post… ooopsie… just did. Let’s dive in, shall we?
GFY
Clint in a dialogue with an invisible Obama
Clint Eastwood was the surprise speaker at the Republican National Convention last night. With all guns a blazing, he came out and gave his thoughts on Obama and lumped whatever praise he could on the GOP. Part of that was a pseudo conversation with a chair, which was to suggest that Obama was there. And while he did mention a couple valid shortcomings with the president, he ventured into a territory that was beneath him.
From the video above at the 6:00 min mark: (already set to that mark)
So anyway, we’re 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? I can’t tell him to do that. I can’t tell him to do that to himself.
To borrow a line that Vice President Cheney told Senator Patrick Leahy on the senate floor in 2004, Clint was placing “Go fuck yourself!” into the mouth of invisible Obama, as directed to Romney.
And while I’m sure others were at outraged as I was, our president’s response wasn’t going to be repeating that phrase back to Mr. Eastwood. It was more of a “touché”
This seat's taken. http://t.co/tvHZDcfw, pic.twitter.com/jgGZTb02
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012
Offensive
Some have called the above photo of Obama in the chair “pathetic” and “petty” without nary a mention of Clint’s moment of shame. Really?
I have no issue with the word fuck. I use it often in my life… curbing myself when appropriate, but telling someone “go fuck yourself” or as Clint did, using it as a form of humor as a dig to Obama, is not classy or something that’s acceptable. It’s a derogatory statement for anyone to say to anyone else.
Disagree with our president all you want, but laughing at or not being appalled at Clint’s banter at the RNC is something that I find offensive.
What say you… did Clint go too far or is it now acceptable to use that phrase in a humorous fashion at a political convention?
I just really hate this time because it just shows that we are not a country that respects others anymore…we just want to tear others down because they don’t share our same beliefs.
I personally think that that phrase should never be used when trying to be professional. I think politics should be professional (now whether they are/aren’t is a whole other rant) and throwing around that phrase just lowers everything. That’s just how I see it.
I agree. It’s unprofessional and completely unneccesary.
This time is difficult because, as you said, the lack of respect is totally in full force and the division of the people is very evident when it comes to politics.
I feel that this is, once again, trying to paint the president as a thug.
I don’t get the thug part. I don’t understand why people have to paint him all bad. He’s done several things in his time in office.
It’s these types of things that remind me that I need to get off my arse and get US citizenship so I can have a say in the future of my newly adopted home.
Oh, and by the way, I would have been totally ok with the title of “Go Fuck Yourself” 😉
he he… yeah, I went back and forth a couple of times and decided to stay with the sanitized title.