Sunday, September 02, 2012

Philosophically considered …

… Maverick Philosopher: Clint Eastwood Speaks Truth to Power at the RNC.

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  1. I have not been watching TV, so I only know about this speech the speech itself on YouTube and what you have linked to. But there seems to be a conversation going that Eastwood was incoherent in places. I cannot find where that's the case. He is clear as a bell in all that he communicated, using the same English language that I know.

    This has me wondering if those who are leading such a charge are being discriminatory because of age. Older people have just as much right to walk and talk as anyone. If you get impatient because you are behind an older person, or disabled person going through a doorway, that's your problem not his or hers. Same with speaking. It is absolutely disrespectful to be listening to an older person, giving hints like a poorly raised teenager, that he or she should speak faster. And here we have a case of people who want to make a point that Eastwood's speech was rambling or embarrassing, making public their immaturity--would be the best one could say, prejudice and willingness to mistreat older people is the more likely revelation.

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  2. I completely agree, Rus, though I actually think there is good deal of method to what Eastwood was doing. He is an actor. He wanted to come across as a "movie tradesman" etc. Had he been saying the sort of things his critics like to hear, you may rest assured they would have understood that and applauded.

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    1. Oh good point! Yes.

      This morning on my racewalking through the city, I have ruled out Obama as receiving my vote. I agree with you that he was essentially not ready to be president, and that he has not improved in the interim. I have mentioned that I more than disagree with how he handled the auto industry--his actions had a lot to do with my leaving a 14-year position at the Chevy dealership, Chevy not being run the way I can either make money or with a philosophy that I can abide without fuming. But Obama directly cost me thousands of dollars the way his administration forced a redefinition of how to handle tax abatements. The idea was to be stingy with them, and to reinterpret rules in ways that kept money in the government coffers. The money that Obama kept in the coffer and that the IRS refused to release to me is my money. In this sense, Obama stole money from me. Within his arrogance, he probably thinks it was his right as president to change the rules--but only in the sense that his power disallows my ability to fight him on it legally and win.

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    2. Now that I am fuming again, here's an article: Bain Capital-Controlled Companies' Employees To Speak At Democratic Convention . Obama and company are going to get former employees of Romney to put him down at the DNC. How about getting every former UAW member in the country, each oldtimer who had his or her retirement pay stolen away, to speak out against how Obama processed the auto companies through the bankruptcy ringer to do away with the unions. How about my saying how he took out a CEO of GM, replaced him with someone who could not handle the position whatsoever, only to have him replaced by a guy who made a fortune in bonus money by cutting the bonus money of salespeople all over the country. Furthermore, he had the training be to not pay people, but create a method of attaboys in lieu of pay, while he raked in all the money. Attaboy Obama!

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