From Politico: Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad made Obama's day, blogs say
In the two-minute spot narrated by Eastwood, some commentators noted the actor seemed to suggest that President Barack Obama was only half-way through his tenure at the White House.
“It’s halftime. Both teams are in their locker rooms discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half,” Eastwood said. “It’s halftime in America, too. … Detroit’s showing us it can be done. …This country can’t be knocked out with one punch. … Yeah, it’s halftime America. And, our second half is about to begin.”
“That Clint Eastwood Chrysler ad was essentially a reelect Obama commercial,” read a post on Democratic Underground featuring the video. The only extra commentary read: “Without overtly saying it.”
The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Examiner also drew the conclusion that the Chrysler ad shined a favorable light on Obama’s first-term accomplishments.
“Isn’t this the exact same pitch Obama made at the State of the Union two weeks ago? Times were tough when I came into office,” Carroll said. “Times were tough when I came into office. But we acted like a team and bailed each other out. Now we need to come together as a team again and give me a second term.”
“The gritty two-minute spot featured actor/director Clint Eastwood, whose politics usually put him on the Republican side of the aisle,” Hollywood Reporter’s Tina Daunt wrote. “The Obama reelection campaign couldn’t buy a better endorsement.”
And so far, there seems to be no complaining as far as the Obama team is concerned: campaign adviser David Axelrod hailed the commercial a “powerful spot” on Twitter Sunday night, while White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer wrote, “Saving the America Auto Industry: Something Eminem and Clint Eastwood can agree on.”
Ah, a little sanity among the knee-jerk crowd. Having met Clint Eastwood and having worked with him a little, I will take him at his word also. He is an aytpical Hollywood personality.