Place a chair in your yard tomorrow....

[Bic]

pass it on.

[Bic]

Here's mine!

[santahog]

Around these parts, unless you put a "Free" sign on it, it won't be there at the ed of the day..

[TAB]

Thats funny, around here a free sign means it will stay there for weeks.  A forsale sign and some one will steal it in mins

[Bic]

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

[Sponsor]

[fightingquaker13]

Is it me or is Clint a closet Democrat? Hell, Rush, who is apparently back on the Oxy, speculated that the National Hurricane Center was in the pockets of the Democrats and predicted that Isaac would hit Tampa just to mess with the GOP convention. But Clint? Dear God, an 11 minute rambling speech/ventriloquist act to an empty chair? All he needed to do was say what any of us would "I (choke, cough) enthusiastically endorse Mitt (windsock, choke cough) Romney, for President. How hard is that? Instead he launches into something that would embarrass a freshman drama student. The looks on the faces of the Romneys and Ryans were priceless. If looks could kill, the Man With No Name would be six feet under. Mitt's speech? Who talked about it the next day? It was all the hurricane and Clint. Romney can't buy a break. The only good news for him is that he had the good sense to beat Obama to New Orleans. 

[Bic]

Doesn't matter about Clint FQ, he (albeit probably accidentally) gave the Tea Partiers a symbol upon which to place their hats. Although talking to the 'empty chair' is a fairly well used theatrical device..remember Bob Newhart? :

from Dan Cirucci  http://dancirucci.blogspot.com/2012/09/eastwood-and-empty-chair-real-story.html

Eastwood is an American legend -- an Oscar-winning actor, director, musicologist and Hollywood deal-maker who's still box office gold even at age 82. But he's not a public speaker. And he knows he's not a public speaker.
 So, Eastwood did what he does best -- he created a scene and acted it out. And since he couldn't get the other character in the scene to be there live and in person he created a ghost of a character with the use of a prop, an empty chair.
 This is one of the oldest theatrical devices ever. And it remains remarkably effective. Why? Because it engages the audience by forcing them to imagine the person in the chair. It activates people's minds by forcing them to fill in the words for the phantom character, imagining what the invisible character is saying or doing to provoke the live characters response.
 From Topper to Blithe Spirit, to Harvey to the movie Ghost itself, imaginary characters have been a Broadway and Hollywood staple.
 So anybody who didn't understand what Eastwood was doing is either lame, terribly unsophisticated or still suffering from a bad case of Obamamania.
 And, let's face it: We've all encountered real, live characters (relatives, supervisors, fellow employees, etc.) that we'd love to verbally admonish while they're forced to listen to us for a change. When Eastwood told the imaginary Obama "With all due respect, you're boring the hell out of me," we were able to identify with Clint because we've all known somebody like that -- some arrogant, self-important, know-it-all who loves the sound of his/her own voice but who is nonetheless boring. And we've all wanted to give that person a good tongue-lashing.
 But for one reason or another maybe we haven't been able to do it.
 So now, Eastwood has come along and given us a new option. We can talk to the chair. Set up an empty chair and let your nemesis have it. Unload on him/her.
 Eastwood was doing what many, many (perhaps most) Americans would like to do -- giving the President of the United States a piece of their minds.
 And, why not?
 It's cathartic.

[fightingquaker13]

From your mouth to God's ear BIC, but I still think it distracted from Romney. If BO is Carter 2.0, Romney is McCain 2.0. No one is enthusiastic about the guy. Even his opponents can't mange to get a good mad on about him, because they don't know what he stands for any more than his supporters do. They both just shrug their shoulders and say "meh".  He needed that speech, and no one listened or talked about it. The Obama fans will vote for BO, the anti-Obama folks will vote for Mitt. But those in the middle? Mitt needs to make a case to them, and I think his chance to do that was damaged.
FQ13 .

[tombogan03884]

From your mouth to God's ear BIC, but I still think it distracted from Romney. If BO is Carter 2.0, Romney is McCain 2.0. No one is enthusiastic about the guy. Even his opponents can't mange to get a good mad on about him, because they don't know what he stands for any more than his supporters do. They both just shrug their shoulders and say "meh".  He needed that speech, and no one listened or talked about it. The Obama fans will vote for BO, the anti-Obama folks will vote for Mitt. But those in the middle? Mitt needs to make a case to them, and I think his chance to do that was damaged.
FQ13 .

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.   

[alfsauve]

...
 From Topper to Blithe Spirit, to Harvey to the movie Ghost itself, imaginary characters....
 

You remember Topper?  Very cool.  But you do know that he wasn't a ghost? That was George and Marion.