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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf DNC wants to do a similar skit, heres an idea:
An empty suit! Group of blue collar workers, small business owners, teachers, etc quizzing the empty suit about what policies will help them. Suit just silently hangs there.
What do you think?
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)Though I doubt the DNC will want to focus on the Republican flubfest. Under the banner of "Forward", I expect the Dems to lay out their vision of where the country could be in four more years.
Still... that would be hilarious.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)for emphasis.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)dumb. Better to focus on what's been achieved over the past four years, and how that lays the groundwork for four more.
fxmakeupguy
(9 posts)Sadly, our side always seems to "play nice" and probably won't do it. But it sure WOULD BE hilarious! Blast that idea out to everyone you can -- DNC, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Rachel Maddow, David Axelrod, etc. Who knows?? Maybe they'll do it. And I will laugh like a loon.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)I don't know how to contact any of those, if someone does please pass it along!
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)It would be uninspired and derivative for the exact same reason it was uninspired and derivative for Romney to try to rebut the brilliant Mitt sings "America the Beautiful" ad with his own Obama sings ad.
Best case, you show them how to do it, but look mean-spirited. Worst case, you look like a copycat.
I suspect our team can and will do far better than mimic Romney's unintentionally comical, yet sad and pathetic, attempt at performance art.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)I think it would highlight that the GOP has no policies addressing Main Street, and if real people were doing the skit, not a befuddled washed-up actor, I think it would connect with ordinary people.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 1, 2012, 01:36 PM - Edit history (1)
Obama's campaign team has repeatedly proven themselves creatively brilliant and they have consistently been proactive about this campaign, not reactive. Following Romney's lead in order to make their points and one-up Romney would be handing him their leading role.
Updated to say I just saw a short clip of Eastwood's conversation on the news last night. The only thing the media are focusing on is his incredibly disrespectful and rude portrayal of his imaginary Obama telling Eastwood to tell Romney to blank himself. The Obama team should have *nothing* to do with this at their convention. Their twitter joke referring all questions to Salvador Dali was brilliant and frankly 'nuff said on the subject. Romney apparently thought Eastwood was funny. He owns it. Let him.
Real (non-actor) people do extremely well on film, usually one-on-one, speaking in their own words. They do not do so well when handed a script to learn and recite, and they are a mixed bag on stage in front of a live audience. There's a reason people spend years in acting school. Performing arts are harder than they look.
Eastwood was never more than a mediocre actor; he just was given roles that fit his personality and the few I saw consistently had minimum speaking, eg the strong, silent type that supposedly runs deep. And he was primarily a film actor and director working with multiple takes, not a stage actor working live. He's used to working from a script, not trying to ad-lib.
As a former marcom manager, I certainly wouldn't recommend it. I see much to lose, from switching to a position of weakness in reactive mode to total disaster. All gains can be made in other, more creative ways. Just mho.
MyshkinCommaPrince
(611 posts)Let Colbert and Stewart and Saturday Night Live and Letterman work that angle. We have very important points to make, while the other side merely wants to distract. If we let them lead us into formally responding, wasting our and the public's time with that, then we're playing into their desire to distract, as well as letting them drive the discourse (or lack of discourse).
janlyn
(735 posts)besides Clint Eastwood,I would say hilarious!! But he is such an Icon,that senile or not it would probably anger a lot of americans.
I like Clint and am NO fan of the GOP.but I feel it would appear mean spirited.
fxmakeupguy
(9 posts)...but I STILL think humor has its place. Not at the convention, okay. But Rachel would be hilarious doing that (and smart). I'll forward your idea to her staff AND The Daily Show. But I respect the opinions if those who don't think we should "stoop to their level", even if I disagree. See? That's what makes us -- Democrats -- special. We can disagree without all the vitriol. Keep up the good work, all of you!
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)should show up and tell all.
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)This is going to be an "old" joke by the time it's DNC time, and dregging it up will just be seen as piling on an old man. Clint screwed up and by extension, so did the GOP, but he's not a policy maker or a player. The DNC should be positive, upbeat, and fun, but we don't need to reference Clint. They need to go after all the bullshit spewed by R&R. Doing this will make the democrats look like the adults. The internet and the late night talk show hosts will take care of the "dirty work."
TlalocW
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)Rmoney impersonator who refuses to provide documents or answer questions, telling Captain America to just trust him.