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Whose day did it make?

I start my day with the collectivist Financial Times before getting around to the rest. Maybe the Daily Mail will give me more satisfaction but in the meantime the front page story about Romney’s address is devoted to rabid criticism of Clint Eastwood. It begins:

Clint Eastwood arrived at the Republican National Convention as Mitt Romney’s mystery guest, and left much the same way after an 11-minute monologue that befuddled the candidate’s campaign and family. . . .

Mr Eastwood mumbled a near incoherent endorsement of Mr Romney and made no exceptions for him when he mocked politicians who came ‘begging’ for votes every few years.

I remain of two minds on the effectiveness of having the star power of an Eastwood overshadow the candidate himself. But in the end, given the near hysteria with which this article continues, it must have done more good for Romney than harm.

Labor Day coming in the US and there are 23 million unemployed and underemployed. We shall see soon enough what matters in the end.

Written by Steve Kates

September 1st, 2012 at 7:29 pm

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Some cracking speeches at that Convention: Christie, Ryan, Rubio. The talent is astonishing. But you wouldn’t know that unless you saw the speeches. I saw one article claiming that Rubio’s speech was “flat”!

The media must be strictly censored and purged of Leftists.

Fisky

1 Sep 12 at 8:35 pm
Condi Rice who I’ve never thought was that crash hot gave a cracking speech. Put those KKK loving Democrat arseholes back in their place.

Only thing that could have top Eastwood was the Duke riding out on a horse and saying “This town ain’t big enough for both of us Kenyan…”

Infidel Tiger

1 Sep 12 at 8:48 pm
Clint Eastwood may be due some concession from the non-Republicans because he is old and therefore ignorant and useless.

But Condoleezza Rice? Speaking for those who would crucify Tha Wun? She is a dead set raaaaacist!

given the near hysteria with which this article continues

The article was written before the Convention, with blanks awaiting the speakers’ names.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

1 Sep 12 at 9:01 pm
There are some great Republican actors on this list

Splatacrobat

1 Sep 12 at 9:26 pm
The Man with no name who made Obama’s Rawhide is Unforgiven by The dead pool of The beguiled leftists.

Splatacrobat

1 Sep 12 at 10:07 pm
There are some great Republican actors on this list

“Bang. It’s the Hollywood liberals who now should be shivering in their bourgeois fuddy-duddy boots. They’re not the cool guys anymore.”

sdog

2 Sep 12 at 3:34 am
The same sort of scribes will turn out crits of Eastwood now who previously would have had no problem with things like a 2020 Summit where the Best And Brightest included movie actor celebs for the sake of it, and teaming hordes of GetUp groupies.
Where an election outcome is close (2010) the media are capable of swinging the result. After enough years of Labor, the voters will act independently and even generate punishing swings. After enough years of boring conservative good management and budget surpluses they’ll be lulled into a false sense of “it’s time for a change, and can’t do much harm”.
But the swing is usually going to be less, such that one term can undo it unless the media really gets going and like daleks attack every conservative target capable of appearing on an Australian TV screen, wherever they are in the world, as they do now.
Can our local media keep this up until the week before the next election, when it is so obvious that a defeat is imminent; will they go right to the wire pretending that we actually have a competent, caring government instead of a power clique, one who might even scrape back in?

Blogstrop

2 Sep 12 at 7:25 am
Mr Eastwood mumbled a near incoherent endorsement of Mr Romney..

I thought Clint Eastwood was great, and very funny. Either lefties are thick and humourless or they put up a good imitation of the same, just because he’s on the wrong side.

Biota

2 Sep 12 at 8:29 am
Biota, totally agree, Eastwood was superb.
Blogstrop, I still haven’t forgiven the Oz for editorialising a vote for Rudd before that election
Since Rudd’s election we’ve gone from a low doc to a no doc government and we’re the ones in hock for as far as the eye can see just about to lift our credit limit to $300 billion from $250 billion.

val majkus

2 Sep 12 at 9:11 am
“I still haven’t forgiven the Oz for editorialising a vote for Rudd before that election”

You and me both val markus.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

2 Sep 12 at 9:39 am
talking about polls (we were weren’t we) a bit of cut and paste:

I will concentrate on the Newspoll, though the Nielson poll could equally be used. On 27 March it was reported that only 28% of voters would give their first preference vote to the Labor Party compared with 38% at the federal election in August 2010. This meant that roughly 1.3 million voters had deserted the Labor Party. You might think that this strikes at the very heart of either scientific theory of political allegiance. On the other hand, the sheer weight of incompetence and duplicity on the part of the Gillard government may have overwhelmed genetic and/or amygdala tendencies. After all, as Slipper, Windsor, and Oakeshott have taught us, political allegiance is susceptible to naked self-interest and opportunism. Why not also to deep disenchantment?

The difficulty comes with the latest poll showing that the Labor vote by 21 August had rebounded to 35 per cent. Over 900, 000 of the 1.3 million disenchanted voters had switched back again. What happened in the interim? What happened was more of the same. You will recall Julia Gillard lying about Bob Carr’s appointment only a little before the March poll. We have since had the implementation of the iniquitous carbon tax, the back flip on the boats, and the unbelievable spin on why Slater & Gordon parted company with Gillard. There is nothing there to change rational minds; so what happened to the 900,000. Were they visited in the night by Bill Shorten and some union heavies?

love the last line, but have a read ..

val majkus

2 Sep 12 at 9:45 am
Labor’s 2007 election promises
this is the economic management section:

•Deliver budget surpluses equivalent to 1% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Maintain Reserve Bank independence, improve transparency of board appointments
•$31 billion tax package: saving $6050 a year for annual incomes of $200,000, $2150 for incomes of $100,000, $1550 for incomes of $80,000, or $1800 for incomes of $40,000 by 2010-11
• Aspire to reduce the number of tax rates from four to three by 2013-14
•Invest up to $4.7 billion in a national broadband network, connecting 98% of households to service 40 times faster than the current network
•Aim for full employment, boost productivity and tackle infrastructure and skills bottlenecks

well that went well didn’t it

val majkus

2 Sep 12 at 9:55 am
The question was: what would Democrats do, design-wise, for their convention – now that the fake Greek columns of 2008 have become a focal point for mockery and laughter?

Now we know: Ahahahahahahaha.

C.L.

2 Sep 12 at 10:35 am
War on women in the name of Allah:

First picture from Democrat convention’s Islamic prayer session…

Women forced to stand behind the men.

C.L.

2 Sep 12 at 10:38 am
Is that supposed to be Obama or Donny Osmond?

Gab

2 Sep 12 at 10:39 am
Sandcastle Obama update:

Rains wash away Mount Obama in Charlotte, N.C..

Ahahahahahahahaha.

THEY BUILT THAT.

C.L.

2 Sep 12 at 10:40 am
Eastwood was drawing the enemy criticism in much the same way he drew enemy fire at the end of Gran Torino.

And to much the same effect: when the Left attacks him, they are not attacking Romney; but the attacks have been witnessed, alienating some voters to the Left media.

2dogs

2 Sep 12 at 10:45 am
Speaking after Sandra Fluke?

Former Dem. Hill Staffer and Obama Admin. Official Accused of Drugging and Sexually Assaulting Women.

C.L.

2 Sep 12 at 10:52 am
23 million unemployed…. That’s a scary number ! That’s the entire population of Australia, looking for work !

AML1618

2 Sep 12 at 11:42 am
New York Times: Obama Lies While Accusing the Romney Campaign of Lying.

C.L.

2 Sep 12 at 12:21 pm
I posted this on the OT a little earlier.

Seems like it’s appropriate here

Along with Ryan’s I think Eastwood’s was the most effective speech of the conference.

Even if not Churchillian in speechifying terms.

It was political genius on both Romney’s and
Eastwood’s part.

He’s a great actor and director over 50 years, directing 8 films in the last 5 years.

He came out with his hair ruffled and spoke to a chair ffs.

Mark Steyn

Furthermore, apart from the devastating anti-Onbummer bombs dropped on target seemingly delivered by a rambling elderly man the inevitable rabid commentary from the leftist MSM will further concretise the view among more and more heartland Americans that the media is biased in favour of Obama and that the Beltway elite disrespects them on a daily basis.

JamesK

2 Sep 12 at 12:42 pm
some nice stories about Romney
ordinary people who spoke of the impact of Mitt Romney in their lives

val majkus

2 Sep 12 at 2:29 pm
As they say “if the flak is thick, you’re over the target”

Eyrie

2 Sep 12 at 2:56 pm
The question was: what would Democrats do, design-wise, for their convention – now that the fake Greek columns of 2008 have become a focal point for mockery and laughter?

C.L., the mock Greek temple was a reference to the Temple at Pergamon. Speers also built a temple for Hitler along the same lines for the torch lit rallys of the Nazi Party. Hitler proclaimed his “final solution” over the altar at his mock Pergamon temple, which is mentioned in the Bible as Satan’s seat.

old bloke

2 Sep 12 at 5:22 pm
Seriously, was there not SOMEONE in the Democratic Party who stopped and thought:

“Hey, you know, guys……with the economy tanking and 20 million Americans out of work, Obama building a giant sand castle of himself is probably not a good look”?

MDMConnell

3 Sep 12 at 9:29 am
Karl over at Hot Air has one of the bet analyses of Clint Eastwood’s performance at the RNC I’ve seen so far:
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/09/02/just-how-wrong-did-the-media-get-clint-eastwood/

sdog

3 Sep 12 at 10:02 am
I agree with the analysis at Hot Air and note that with everyone parsing and add this point.

Has anyone notice this about the Eastwood speech – How much analysis has there been on Romney’s speech?

Seems to me the speech was a great distraction by the Romney Campaign.

Romney does not deliver a great oratories and knew he would be caned for being flat. That is not happening as the US Stenographers beat themselves into a frenzy about Eastwood – a man who will be out of the news in a week or so.

Token

3 Sep 12 at 10:15 am
Mmm, sdog. Sure. Hundreds of words to convince that shambolic performance is cutting and effective and brilliant.

What bullshit is this that it has “given permission” for everyone to be mocking of Obama? I must have missed the 2 year period of respect and grace that Fox News, Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and a host of right wing radio shock jocks gave to Obama before they started criticising him.

I’ll go all “JC” now: I think you’re too deluded to be let into this country. Go on, pack up and get back over there. There’s a gun wanting to be hugged that’s waiting for you.

steve from brisbane

3 Sep 12 at 10:16 am
The same wankers who would fill their shorts with jism at a performance art exhibit are up in arms over an accessible piece of performance art by Clint Eastwood which gently mocked Obama

jtfsoon

3 Sep 12 at 10:24 am
steve, it’s time you stopped posturing with this ‘true conservative’ schtick. If you don’t like Reagan, you were never with us:

http://www.opiniondominion.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/american-politics.html

As I say, the Right, in large part, has gone stupid; I’m just sitting here waiting for it to return towards me.

* I tend to sympathise with most Presidents of either persuasion, although I always felt very cool towards Reagan – I just never got the “Great Communicator” tag and was not convinced that there was much in the way of natural intellect there.

jtfsoon

3 Sep 12 at 10:30 am
SoB, you seem to be going out of your way to prove how left wing you are and always have been.

Token

3 Sep 12 at 10:34 am
Quite frankly, the political spectrum in the US has usually been so narrow that support for Democrat or Republican Presidents is not a sound guide for how “left” or “right” you are.

Even Romney, if he wasn’t under the thumb of the Tea Party, would be running as a “moderate” on things like health care, abortion and the environment.

I just always felt that the good things Reagan achieved were a matter of luck, pretty much. I don’t recall even if I was a reader of Hitchens at that time – there was no internet then – so when I later learned that he had the same opinion at close range that I had developed over watching Reagan on the TV, I was pleased.

Anyway, Jason, you used to be in the Labor Party as a youngster, didn’t you?

steve from brisbane

3 Sep 12 at 10:43 am
Quite frankly, the political spectrum in the US has usually been so narrow that support for Democrat or Republican Presidents is not a sound guide for how “left” or “right” you are.

No, Barack Obama is a left-wing lunatic with extremist positions on budgeting, business, foreign relations, abortion and Israel.

He is a communist, basically.

C.L.

3 Sep 12 at 10:51 am
Steve, you are a far left whacko. Deal with it.

Infidel Tiger

3 Sep 12 at 10:53 am
The poster for the Jumah prayer session at the NDC (on CL’s link) has an item listed for discussion: Anti-Shariah Bills, and no prizes for guessing the line to be taken. So it’s join the Democrats and tell them how to tell America to allow Shariah ‘Law’ and keep Islamic women and girls in abject submission. Their ultimate ideology in fact is to extend this to all females (those disturbing objects) if possible in the name of Allah?

You couldn’t write a better political manual on how to subvert the Americal legal system from within using well-intentioned fools as your entree. Engaging sans critique with this culture in its present form is taking a step backwards for civilisation everywhere. The only discussion topic I would countenance would be: Moving Away from Shariah Law: How to Do It. We could then begin to see a Reformation in Islam.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

3 Sep 12 at 10:54 am
Eastwooding to mock the empty chair in the White House goes global…

My favourite.

C.L.

3 Sep 12 at 10:54 am
Oh lookey here: further evidence of Reagan’s personal creepy use of FBI to help sort out a family problem:

The newly released files flesh out what Reagan only hinted at. They show that he began to report secretly to the F.B.I. about people whom he suspected of Communist activity, some on the scantiest of evidence. And they reveal that during his tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild in the ’40s and ’50s, F.B.I. agents had access to guild records on dozens of actors. As one F.B.I. official wrote in a memo, Reagan “in every instance has been cooperative.”

Reagan went on to make his fight against Communism in Hollywood a centerpiece of his talks as spokesman for General Electric in the 1950s. Those eventually became broader warnings about what he saw as creeping socialism. The founding fathers, he declared in his 1961 speech, believed “government should only do those things the people cannot do for themselves.”

But that guidance apparently didn’t apply to Reagan himself. According to F.B.I. records, in 1960 he turned to the federal government for help with the kind of problem families usually handle themselves. That March, his close friend George Murphy reached out to an F.B.I. contact, explaining that Reagan and Ms. Wyman, now divorced, were “much concerned” about their estranged daughter, Maureen, then 19. She had moved to Washington, and, her parents had heard, was living with an older, married policeman.

According to an F.B.I. memo: “Jane Wyman wishes to come to Washington to perhaps straighten out her daughter, get her back to Los Angeles, but before doing so desires to know the following: (1) Is [the man in question] employed as an officer of the Metropolitan Police Department?; (2) Is he married?; (3) Is his wife in an institution and what are the details?; and (4) Any other information which might be discreetly developed concerning the relationship.”

Mmmm. Conservative hero.

steve from brisbane

3 Sep 12 at 10:56 am
Ouch…

The New Yorker has an embarrassing revelation:

Bill Clinton on Obama: ‘A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags’.

C.L.

3 Sep 12 at 10:58 am
That’s right Steve. Reagan hated commies with a passion.

Great man. Not a moral coward like yourself.

Infidel Tiger

3 Sep 12 at 11:07 am
The glimpses into the old-fashioned southern Democrat racism of the Clintons is fascinating.

Make our coffee, carry our bags, Obama born overseas etc.

Fuck, they’re nasty.

C.L.

3 Sep 12 at 11:13 am
Stepford… We already knew that. He dispised commies and cleaned up the actors guild of that filthy infestation of commie rats. Great man.

In a way it’s a mild version of the Fisk Doctrine that will be put in place at some stage soon.

JC

3 Sep 12 at 11:15 am
I just never got the “Great Communicator” tag

The Stevies of the world just don’t get it. SDog would know: Americans have their own distinct sense of calm and pointed irony in a homespun mode. Go to any bar in out-of-town US and you’d have to learn that Stevie. The Gipper and Gran Torino show that style in truckloads.

I drove a big Caddie down Route 66 (The MotherRoad) and stopped at a few of the old motels (in time before tourism really hit there). Talked to some old-timers. They mostly just looked at me and nodded.

Public School Brits too have their understated mode. Da Irish Ape went to one of these schools. He can annoy hell out of me if I’m asking questions and burbling on and he goes all Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and answers with that flat ‘yes’ to everything just to wind me up:

“Isn’t that a sweet little cottage over there? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could buy something like that?” ….. yes
“And you could stop work and wear t-shirts and I could umm, start a cooking school, and we could sleep in late every day” …… yes
“And did you just take Aqaba?” …. yes

As sociologist Basil Bernstein once pointed out, it’s all a matter of knowing the linguistic codes, some in his terms ‘restricted’, others ‘elaborated’.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

3 Sep 12 at 11:17 am
Interesting that the narrative of the American Left is starting to shift…..there seem to be a lot more “Getting Our Excuses In First” pieces anticipating an Obama loss.

“Is America scared of a black president after all!!”
“Why are we more bitter and divided than ever”
“Liar Liar Pants on Fire Republicans, only winning because of LIES!!!”
“History will judge Obama kindly whatever happens in November!”

….stuff like that.

MDMConnell

3 Sep 12 at 11:17 am
“History will judge Obama kindly whatever happens in November!”

Not the history I’ll be reading about the lying prick.

JC

3 Sep 12 at 11:19 am
They mostly just looked at me and nodded.

There’s a good chance they couldn’t understand the accent.

answers with that flat ‘yes’ to everything just to wind me up:

Or he could genuinely be uninterested in conversation on those topics.

steve from brisbane

3 Sep 12 at 11:23 am
Fiery Obama Begins March to DNC
Says GOP Is So “Last Century”

Lord he’s a dickhead. The Kenyan and the Lying slapper have so much in common it’s not funny. If they were the same skin color you could honestly say they were separated at birth.

JC

3 Sep 12 at 11:24 am
“History will judge Obama kindly whatever happens in November!”

I hope not. And I pray that black America isn’t blamed for this stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure. Obama is the white man’s burden and we should be made to suffer for inflicting him upon others.

Infidel Tiger

3 Sep 12 at 11:25 am
As my fair and balanced post on the topic noted, The Economist says he is not given enough credit for the handling of the economy.

steve from brisbane

3 Sep 12 at 11:31 am
I scored the debate a draw. I thought the chair made some good points.

AndrewL

3 Sep 12 at 11:33 am
As my fair and balanced post on the topic noted, The Economist says he is not given enough credit for the handling of the economy.

This all we need to know about the non-Economist stepford.

Textbook economics dictates that when conventional monetary policy is impotent, only fiscal policy can pull the economy out of a slump.

It’s written by a Keynesian zombie and the main reason I stopped subscribing to the rag about the decade ago.

look, Douchebag, you told us a few weeks ago that you don’t know anything about economics. So why the fuck are you talking about it, you ignornant oaf.

JC

3 Sep 12 at 11:35 am
Most people who comment here have no economics study in their background, JC. I don’t see you freaking out about their inability to make judgements about matters economic.

steve from brisbane

3 Sep 12 at 12:01 pm
Or he could genuinely be uninterested in conversation on those topics.

Oh Stevie, you really are dim.

It’s two people, using different codes against each other to score, quite deliberately.

Why on earth would he think I’m deadly serious, and why would I think he was anything but engaged in making a game of it?

QED regarding your understanding of communication.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

3 Sep 12 at 12:03 pm
they couldn’t understand the accent.

Wrong again, Stevie. Educated Australian rather touched with British county, my accent (there’s a reason behind that, not telling). I speak the Queen’s English. I assure you that Americans also understand me well. Point still stands, ordinary Americans take it all in – they listen hard, then reply slowly with witty candour. Clint did it to a T.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

3 Sep 12 at 12:22 pm
Lizzie, my accent is far from “strine”. It was not unusual for Americans to have trouble understanding some of my words.

Your point about communication and Eastwood is pure Lizzie wankery, as far as I am concerned.

steve from brisbane

3 Sep 12 at 12:31 pm
I hope not. And I pray that black America isn’t blamed for this stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure. Obama is the white man’s burden and we should be made to suffer for inflicting him upon others.

Look at outstanding talents the RNC put on display from the African American community – Condy Rice, Mia Love, Artur Davis.

Who would blame the good and decent black people who contribute in communities across the US for the talentless Alynskite spiv the lily-white lefties foisted upon the US?

Token

3 Sep 12 at 12:34 pm
Most ~~people~~ leftwings & faux conservatives who comment here have no economics study in their background, JC.

Fixed for you.

Token

3 Sep 12 at 12:35 pm
The Economist says he is not given enough credit for the handling of the economy.

Ahahahahahaha.

C.L.

3 Sep 12 at 12:53 pm
Well, there’s a subject SoB is an authority and a daily practitioner of, pretty much every time he posts a comment: pure wankery.
It’s when he ascribes it to others that he loses perspective and is projecting. As usual, he’s a daily waste of space, oxygen and pixels.

blogstrop

3 Sep 12 at 12:54 pm
Ta, blogstrop. Just what I was thinking too.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

3 Sep 12 at 1:05 pm
C.L.,

WRT your mention of the fake Greek columns, the Kenyan was attempting to recreate the Temple of Zeus which is now in the Berlin Museum. It was originally in Pergamon (Pergamus), Turkey, and is mentioned in The Revelation as the Seat of Satan.

Given the Kenyan’s liking of all things Luciferic, what else would he chose?

Speers modeled the backdrop of the stadium along the same lines for the Nazi Party’s night time torch rallies, and it was at the mock Altar of Satan that Hitler announced his “final solution” to the “Jewish question”

Once again, we find that the Kenyan gave his speech in Berlin in front of the Nazi statue of Victory, a site which all previous U.S.. Presidents have steered well clear of.

Old bloke

3 Sep 12 at 3:27 pm
I should have included an Internet link to the above post. I don’t know how to embed a link using Safari, so here’s the address:

http://stop-obama-now.net/obamas-shrine-to-satan

Old bloke

3 Sep 12 at 3:39 pm
Timothy Dalrymple explains the power and the menace of Eastwood’s empty chair:

Barack Obama, the Empty Stool.

President Obama has consistently been absent, more concerned about branding than leadership, with image and atmospherics than truly rallying the troops and harnessing our resources and solving our most pressing problems. He turned over the task of crafting solutions on the stimulus bill and the health care bill to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, who predictably butchered it. He botched the budget compromise with John Boehner and withdrew from the process. When he thought that partisan gridlock in Congress might make him look bad, rather than forging into the gridlock and navigating a way forward he withdrew to the White House and played over 100 rounds of golf. The problem for President Obama is that the soaring oratory will not work this time. The contrast between the rhetoric and his actual achievements is too great…

According to most accounts, even friendly ones, President Obama is haughty and surly. To those with eyes to see, he is an act. A vacuous promise. An illusion. An empty stool.

RTWT.

C.L.

3 Sep 12 at 3:50 pm
From CL’s link:

(Seriously, who wouldn’t want to have a beer with Clint Eastwood?)

Well, me. (Big surprise, hey?) He can’t act, his main work is outside of the glamorous Hollywood period, and his direction is pedestrian. His political views are actually all over the shop and an uninteresting mix.

Dalrymple also notes:

the cheap and scornful hyper-partisanship of the Daily Kos and HuffPo crowd.

while at another post noting:

A hearty congratulations to everyone involved in the Romney campaign for the smashing success of the convention finale, and an equally hearty congratulations to all of those outside the campaign — like my friends at Evangelicals for Mitt — who believed that this was the man for our time. They persevered through much, soldiered on, and last night they were triumphant.

Nothing hyperpartisan about that at all…

steve from brisbane

3 Sep 12 at 4:07 pm
Great US Election banner:
We built it, You …

H/T David Crawford of Tacoma, USA via Tim Blair.

Cold-Hands

3 Sep 12 at 5:09 pm
“Da Irish Ape … goes all Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and answers with that flat ‘yes’ to everything just to wind me up:

…

“And did you just take Aqaba?” …. yes”

Now that, Elizabeth (Lizzie) B., was funny. How well did you tell that story – cleverly done young lady!

(I remember those lines from the film.
Colonel ? [Anthony Quayle]: “Taken Aqaba? Who has?”
Lawrence: “We have. Our side in this war has. The wogs have.”)

Mick Gold Coast QLD

3 Sep 12 at 8:18 pm
“History will judge Obama kindly”

Heh. Heh heh. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha hee hee hee … snort, gulp … bwah ha ha ha bloody ha ha ha ha … now me guts are hurting … bwahahahahahahahaha

Mick Gold Coast QLD

3 Sep 12 at 8:22 pm
Mick, if you come back to this thread, this is just for you –
‘yes’ as in the first two.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

3 Sep 12 at 9:28 pm
Thanks Lizzie, I remember that well.

The old fella took me (at 14ish) to see the film when it was released, about five years before he died. He met El Aurens and Auda Abu Tayi and others (a well known breaker, he was mates with A B Paterson and Ion Idriess) – came back from Gallipoli to Egypt to collect their horses, mucked about with the Arab irregulars for a bit in Jordan and other places, then his (Chauvel’s) Light Horse crew rode up to take Jerusalem with them. He taught me stuff about the Middle East then which gave me a real insight as it all unfolded later.

That story (the film and Seven Pillars of Wisdom) has been as strong a connection with my father as the several others I’ve enjoyed over the years.

Back to the point – I do laugh so at your husband’s “Yes” in that understated, minimalist manner, very droll. People from Christchurch, too, are a bit spare with their words like that.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

3 Sep 12 at 10:10 pm
I think you’re too deluded to be let into this country. Go on, pack up and get back over there. There’s a gun wanting to be hugged that’s waiting for you.

You sound like you’re downright intimidated by me, SfB.

Does it scare you that a humble redneck public school & scholarship kid from Carolina can out-reason and out-smart you ten ways to Tuesday?

Not to mention, come to ‘your’ country and within 15 years have acquired enough wealth to buy and sell you ten times over?

Bless.

SteveWorld just isn’t a very happy or confident place, is it.

sdog

3 Sep 12 at 10:40 pm
The other thing that suggests the RNC was pretty successful is the utterly banal and generic criticisms from the Left (apart from the Eastwood thing, of course).

It’s all very rote: “Ryan was bad, Romney was flat, the convenetion was a flop, their agenda is evil, blah blah”, just going through the motions as if their hearts aren’t really in it….

MDMConnell

3 Sep 12 at 10:56 pm

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