The Empty Chair Obama

The meaning of an empty chair: Empty chair symbolism is nothing new in politics, the Washington Post reported, but it's not often used for this kind of purpose. When actor and director Clint Eastwood spoke at the Republican National Convention, he employed an empty chair to symbolize Obama and what Eastwood said was the president's failure to follow through with the promises he made when elected.

Senior fellow at American think-tank Brookings Institution, Bill Gaston told the Post that empty chair symbolism has long been prevalent in American politics as a "device to symbolize either the unwillingness of a candidate to debate or some other fact about the candidate. Wheeler's use of an empty chair at a campaign event in Iowa to symbolize the "silence" of President Calvin Coolidge.

Not everyone has embraced Obama's empty chair. How appropriate that in his last State of the Union he now opts for the empty chair routine. McGurn isn't the only conservative to criticize Obama's empty chair move. Related stories by this author. Why women's rights activists want a "no" vote for Brett Kavanaugh.

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And as we entered this new year, Obama announced a set of executive actions on gun violence. Yet for his final address on the state of our union, the only acknowledgement of the undeniable impact of BlackLivesMatter on the life of the nation was a reference to the "protester who believes that justice matters" emphasis mine alongside a reference to young cops who do their best to serve communities across the country.

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But for the many, many empty chairs in Chicago homes on that very evening, many of them belonging to black families, the pain and longing represented within that missing space could've been more directly connected to that seat near the first lady. Switch to the mobile version of this page.

So why did the president all but ignore that issue in his speech?

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