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Last night.

He went on to have a conversation with an empty chair – representing Mr. Obama – and criticized the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the president’s change of heart on closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo.

“When somebody doesn’t do the job, you gotta let `em go,” Eastwood said before making a throat-slashing motion. Eastwood endorsed the notion that troops should return “tomorrow” from Afghanistan and erroneously suggested that is Romney’s position.

 

Full transcript here  .

Pants.

On fire.

But that’s not all. He [Paul Ryan, Republican Vice Presidential candidate] attacked Obama for failing to keep open a Janesville GM plant that closed under Bush in 2008. He hit him for a credit-rating downgrade that S&P essentially blamed on GOP intransigence. He claimed that all taxpayers got from the 2009 stimulus was “more debt,” when most got a tax cut (and the stimulus is known to have saved between 1.4 and 3.3 million jobs). He derided the president for walking away from the Simpson Bowles commission deficit-cutting recommendations when Ryan himself, a commission member, voted against those recommendations.

…Other than that, it was a great speech.

The Brazen Lies of Paul Ryan (Joan Walsh, Salon)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr5kMguEqi8

Meanwhile at The RNC:

As I was standing in line for a sandwich next to an Italian and a Puerto Rican correspondent, a controversy was unfolding on the floor. The RonPaulites, whose furious devotion to a single idea have made them the Ellen Jamesians of the right, were protesting a decision by RNC officials not to seat members of the Maine delegation, which was split between Paul and Romney supporters following rule changes made just prior to the convention.

There were energetic shouts of “Aye!” and “Nay!” as a Puerto Rican party functionary—Zoraida Fonalledas (top in red), the chairwoman of the Committee on Permanent Organization—took her turn at the main-stage lectern. As she began speaking in her accented English, some in the crowd started shouting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”

The chanting carried on for nearly a minute while most of the other delegates and the media stood by in stunned silence. The Puerto Rican correspondent turned to me and asked, “Is this happening?”

A Troubling Chant On The Convention Floor (Jack Hitts, Harpers Magazine)