Place a chair in your yard tomorrow....

[tt11758]

I disagree with you about Romney on several points, but that's for other threads.
To stick to the subject of Clint's speech, I watched half of it and thought it was sad.
The device of the empty chair was great for the reasons BIC mentioned, but also because, in terms of leadership, that is exactly what Obama has been, an empty chair .

While Clint got some good zingers in, ( "No sir, Gov Romney can't do that to himself" ) he has never made his living by speaking off the cuff, this was not the time to start trying it.
Being 82 y/o did not seem to help him in holding a train of thought.
He hemmed and hawed like BO when the teleprompter cut out.
It reminded me of Adm. Stockdale at the VP debate.   

I found myself embarrassed for him.  Dirty Harry turns senile.

[crusader rabbit]

While I acknowledge the deficiencies in Clint's speech, he did exactly what he needed to do: he galvanized the Tea Party. 

The empty chair was a good device--it makes the scene memorable.  People are still talking about it nearly a week later.

And suggesting that Romney is McCain 2.0 is just foolishness. 

Romney has actually accomplished some pretty tremendous feats in his life that did not stem from getting his a$$ captured in Vietnam.  And he can respond off the cuff without needing a teleprompter.

He certainly wasn't my first choice, but he's what we've got.  Either we get behind him, or we say goodbye to the US of A. 

And that's my 2-cents,

Crusader Rabbit

[Timothy]

I saw it for what it was.  Clint was having a bit of fun...

[PegLeg45]

mine has a leg missing, it's propped up on a rock

I need a rock.

[Bic]

I need a rock.

  - looks like that box o' dynamite is workin' just fine Peg,

MP

[Sponsor]

[alfsauve]

From the Sauve' Chateau de Sans Souci

[MikeBjerum]

I found myself embarrassed for him.  Dirty Harry turns senile.

I am the opposite.

He stood up like a man and made the point he wanted and needed to make.  I don't know of anyone that did not get the point he was trying to make either.  Keep in mind that he did this as a member of a community where most do not agree with any thing he had to say.

Take it for what it is:
A well informed man speaking to the generations behind him;
A compilation of Pres. BHO's responses to all who disagree with him over the last three and a half years;
A very clear and unforgettable symbol of the lack of wisdom and leadership in the desk chair in the Oval Office;
And a great reminder of all the campaign promises ignored and avoided once the votes were counted.

I would rather listen to Clint in his current form for hours than either BHO or Romney with their canned perfect delivery.  Speaking the truth from the heart is what matters.  That is what forged this nation, and beauty and eloquence contests are what are destroying it.

[jaybet]

#1 let's not forget that this is ALL theatre.
Clint is quite a man to stand up at the convention and speak. His age and status probably allow him that luxury more so than a younger man.
He did not appear to have notes, so it was probably off the cuff.
He's 82 or so...not the most spry mind and it's understandable.
Which brings me back to my first point- it's all theatre. He performed a particular task- he told the truth about Obama, pointed out how big of a stuffed shirt douchebag the guy really is, pointed out that Biden is a buffoon, and a number of other points that would be impolite for the candidate to point out. He is also taking the heat and the focus from the responsibility for those comments, playing the "dottering old man" at the convention.
He may have been winging it, but I don't believe anything he said or the way he said it was a surprise to the Romney campaign.

[Jrlobo]

The empty chair indeed was a powerful symbol. The tweeted response from the White House--a picture of the top of Obama's head above the back of the President's chair in the Oval Office--was also very symbolic...symbolic of the half brain we can see and of him leading from behind! When Teddy Kennedy was alive, he was the brains and power behind Obama. What ought to concern us is who now is pulling the strings on the hair brain sitting in the chair? Nice job, Clint. Mitt, get your act together so we can move out smartly. Time's running out!

[tombogan03884]

The empty chair indeed was a powerful symbol. The tweeted response from the White House--a picture of the top of Obama's head above the back of the President's chair in the Oval Office--was also very symbolic...symbolic of the half brain we can see and of him leading from behind! When Teddy Kennedy was alive, he was the brains and power behind Obama. What ought to concern us is who now is pulling the strings on the hair brain sitting in the chair? Nice job, Clint. Mitt, get your act together so we can move out smartly. Time's running out!

It also symbolized the way Obama has turned his back on the American people and the Constitution.