RNC: Anyone Watching? Thoughts? (Please keep it Civil)

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

Someone made a very fitting comment on Eastwood's extended senior moment speech, saying something to the effect of "it's a very fitting keynote for the RNC: an old white man arguing with a made-up version of the President."

And yet it was probably the most cogent thing to come out of the RNC. He actually drew attention to the fact that we've been stuck in that shithole called Afghanistan for a decade now with no end game in sight, stupidly trying to wage a half-assed war with one hand while simultaneously "rebuilding" a country that was never built to begin with with the other, and all the while telegraphing to the enemy our intent to pull out so that they know all they have to do is dig in and wait us out. As much as people are ragging on Clint for his rambling, that was easily the hardest bit of truth to come out of the whole stupid pep rally, and since the DNC is going to be a vast exercise in distraction and and denialism, I don't expect it will be topped there, either.

The best part was that Eastwood bothered Obama enough for him to tweet this picture of Alfred E. Newman sitting in his chair:

What a petty little man.

I thought it was a huge display of hypocrisy, moreso that the republicans cheered for it, when even 6 years ago anyone even saying that would have been labeled "terrorist sympathizer" by the Fox News set.