Why Clint's in my line of fire for backing Mitt

[malaise]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/nuala-mckeever/why-clints-in-my-line-of-fire-for-backing-mitt-16205789.html
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When The Outlaw Clint Eastwood walked on stage to introduce Mitt Romney at the Republican Party Convention last week, he went from being the lone stranger, riding into town to save the little people, to Unforgiven, in one short stroll.

Apparently Barack Obama is a failure because the American economy is in tatters and the only way it'll be saved is if the American people vote for a multi-millionaire who has never shown one shred of interest in looking after ordinary people.

Maybe it's all those beans and bacon Clint ate on set, but something's got to his brain and turned him from the glorious maverick you may have fancied him being (if you were a boy) or just fancied (if you were a girl) to a cringeworthy embarrassment.

Has old age finally caught up with him? Has he lost his marbles? Has he succumbed to that old-person phenomenon of thinking that anything he says is acceptable just because he's been around a long time?

Whatever motivated him, I doubt he can have given any serious consideration to how his appearance and his "humorous" slagging off of Obama, will have affected millions of his fans.

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Good read

[CJCRANE]

1. Clint's later movies are all about deflating his tough guy image

so for some people his bizarre little stunt wasn't much of a surprise.