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In reply to the discussion: Obama Camp On Eastwood: ‘Referring All Questions On This To Salvador Dali’ [View all]Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)48. I can just hear the crowds chanting at Obama rallies...Four More Chairs, Four More Chairs.
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Obama Camp On Eastwood: ‘Referring All Questions On This To Salvador Dali’ [View all]
ProSense
Aug 2012
OP
"An empty chair upstaged an empty suit" -- that one should be shopped around! Good.
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2012
#26
It was a double reference. He also has a work of art called The Chair.
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2012
#31
Not in the same way, though. Clint Eastwood is surreal in a very inept and nutjob way.
Zalatix
Aug 2012
#47
sigh yes some of the base will wonder if that is some illegal worker the Obama team hired....
lunasun
Aug 2012
#19
Was more Magritte than Dali to me but I get where they are coming from with that referral!
lunasun
Aug 2012
#17
My thought, too. Magritte was full of "empty suits" and had that wonderful Madame Recamier
CTyankee
Aug 2012
#55
That very well may have been the most perfect response for them to give, possible.
Poll_Blind
Aug 2012
#20
They can't even be bothered to set up a straw man to knock down. Just empty air. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2012
#28
I can just hear the crowds chanting at Obama rallies...Four More Chairs, Four More Chairs.
Snotcicles
Aug 2012
#48
Well, they have been running against an imaginary Obama so an invisible one seems
Motown_Johnny
Aug 2012
#50
At the DNC, some celebrity should debate an empty suit hanging from a coat rack.
tclambert
Aug 2012
#51
+1. I still like Eastwood even though his stunt was so wrong. He must be so weird in his real life.
The Wielding Truth
Aug 2012
#67