Clint Eastwood told a magazine reporter that he believes President Barack Obama is “an ‘I’ person, not a ‘we’ person, even before the movie star’s appearance at the Republican National Convention.
But Tom Junod omitted the quote from the cover article
he was writing for Esquire, because he thought it made Eastwood seem like “another cranky old guy, running down the president, and not always very clearly.”
But in light of Eastwood’s RNC speech, in which the Dirty Harry star addressed an empty chair, Junod included them in a preview of the magazine, now on its website.
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Junod said he discovered during a three-hour interview that Eastwood “really doesn’t like Obama.”
"There are two kinds of people in this world," Eastwood said. "'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person. I think that our president is an 'I' person. He speaks as though he killed Osama bin Laden himself.
"Can you imagine being him, surrounded by people all the time?” added Eastwood. “I'd hate it. But he seems to like it. He seems to like what I'd hate, all the trappings of power.
“He said that if he failed in his first term he wouldn't seek a second. Well, here he is — unemployment's still up around 8 percent — and he's doing anything he possibly can to keep power. There's no way he's going to give it up."
Junod also said that Eastwood was at pains to point out that his “Halftime in America” ad about the auto industry was not an endorsement of Obama’s policies, and that when the president had awarded him the Medal of the Arts he had not attended the ceremony.
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