What the patriotic message of this cynical ad had to do with Chrysler’s clunkers escapes me!
Yeah sure!
American spirit?
Isn’t chrysler now an Italian owned product?
I was bored with that commercial. Two seconds into it, I left the room.
Clint = Obama stooge
Okay Clint, prove that you have no 0bama connection - endorse and campaign with Newt!
It was a great ad..
Bullcrap Mr. Eastwood, you old fool!
Clint had better start looking around for some American Products I might purchase.
GM and Chrysler are NOT in that set. They managed to screw up good reputations and then had the audacity to screw their stockholders and then we taxpayers.
They can shove their iron up their collective Obamas.
I’ll take Fords, thank you very much.
Well, if you have to explain it, the ad wasn’t very good....
Too many people just trying to read too much into it.
Liar!
Agreed. This ad is the kind of message that Americans used to rally behind. Now it truly is divisive, used by pols to score points.
If Obama, or even Bush got up on the firetruck again with a bullhorn, there'd be a bunch of catcalls.
We've just got not a whole lot of obvious things to be proud of anymore.
There is really quite a bit more than the rest of the world, but the whole world is in a Carter-type malaise right now, and America's down there with them.
It was "Morning in America" back then because we wanted to get up and go fight another day. Now lot's of people don't want to get back out there at all after halftime. To be fair, it's the first time I saw an American football game so "nuanced" that the Giants tried to NOT get a touchdown for some strategic thing and the "Patriots" -let- the other team score a touchdown so they'd get more free time to try to score.
I don't think Mean Joe Green or the guys back in the day would have understood "let them score so we have a chance to win." Such is the metaphor for our time?
What jumped out at me from the spot was Mr. Eastwood’s statement that we are in halftime, and the second half is about to begin. To me, that alluded to Obama’s second term—as if America should give him one. I know that may not at all be the intention of the writers (don’t know), but that’s the first thing I thought on viewing that ad.
The Democrats all seem to think it was a pro-Republican, 9/11-fetishizing, anti-Obama screed. So I guess Clint managed to piss off everybody. :)
and on the other hand we have the Perpetually Offended.
For the life of me I cannot understand people and their desire to throw hissy fits over every thing.
Methinks Eastwood was duped. He’s on the record of being anti bailout and he’s no fan of Obama. Just a thought.