Actor and director Clint Eastwood tried a risky and sometimes awkward 10-minute routine Thursday before the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., that involved several minutes of him pretending to ask questions to a non-present President Obama, though he won big applause for lines saying it's time for him to leave office.
"When somebody does not do the job, we got to let him go," he said near the end of his remarks, to rowdy applause.
"We own this country," he added. "Politicians are employees of ours. They're just going to come around and beg for votes every few years, it's the same old deal."
Before grilling an invisible Obama in an empty chair, Eastwood said he was initially fine with Obama's election, but that the state of the economy made him sour on the president.
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