Clint Eastwood's speech was pretty amazing, not so much for what he said, but for how enthusiastically he was cheered for it. His speech combined a sad, offensive half of a ventriloquist act with rambling mutterings that could be taken as insults on Romney almost as often as on Obama. But choosing to end with "Go ahead, make my day", which was always the bon phrase delivered right before he shot the hell out of some criminal punk, and the cheers that he received for it, was truly amazing. Mark it for the history books, as the end of an era. An era where delivering justice at gunpoint, where social issues could be resolved by punitive justice with extreme prejudice, where good, decent, godfearing Americans could titillate themselves with fear-based fantasies of revenge.
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