30 August, 2012

Clint Eastwood Offers Off-Script Moment - Washington Wire - WSJ

Clint Eastwood Offers Off-Script Moment - Washington Wire - WSJ: Hollywood actor and director Clint Eastwood, the Republican National Convention’s much-touted surprise guest, delivered a rambling, awkward speech that was the highly orchestrated evening’s first off-script moment.

Mr. Eastwood took the stage as the convention moved to prime-time television coverage, and talked for nearly 15 minutes with an empty chair representing President Barack Obama. Suggesting in his imagined conversation that Mr. Obama was making profane remarks, the 82-year old actor implied that lawyers weren’t suited to be president, though both Mr. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are Harvard-trained lawyers.