Clint Eastwood Chrysler Super bowl commercial: Facebook fans respond

If you didn’t see it aired on TV during halftime of the Super bowl Sunday, you’ve likely heard about it by now: The Clint Eastwood Chrysler commercial. Amid all the debate on the ad's perceived political stance, we took this question to our Facebook fans: After watching this video, do you think Chrysler came out with a pro-Obama commercial, or a patriotic commercial? We’ve culled their 127 comments and grouped the best here.

7. Unions and bailouts

Steven Chevalier if it wasn't for Obama, Chevy and Chrysler would be gone. Unions made money, the corruption was the problem, not the people. they deserve every dime they make. do they work harder than a 10 million bonus exec? give me a break, innocent taxpayers. we are worth far more as a people than the paltry wages we are enslaved too....and pay taxes.

Denise Barbeau Prince i agree with Steve, the innocent taxpayers who were and are repsonsible are paying for everyone else

Beverly Pletsch i saw the ad and i did not take it that way. I started to, but then as the ad ran on, i took it for what it was: America is at the half time...the auto industry was the best analogy since it was close to perish, fortunately for the IAW, their union jobs werent saved by their Union, it was forced on innocent taxpayers at a time that others, non union and union alike, were in the midst of losing their jobs...if that was the intention to remind the rest of us who did not have a union or had one that did not stand or could not stand for its members, mission accomplished....the divide is that much more evident now, RIGHT TO [WORK]!!!!!! No Union necessary to earn a decent living..............

Beverly Pletsch... Unions are far too involved in the political arena and I believe that there needs to be a separation from our elected officials and the union leaders that have be made parts of commissions. I do not believe that you should be forced to join a union to work.

Brandon Gorall ‎@Beverly...Right to work is a farce. And you wanna know what? Those auto workers in Detroit? Are union workers, and they agreed to take less in benefits for a greater cause, mainly saving the industry they work in.

Cody Bruce It's Halftime in America. Chrysler assembly workers average $24.79 hourly. Average compensation for all GM and Chrysler employees is $73 per hour. We've given GM and Chrysler $77 billion of our tax dollars. Detroit's population has decreased by 25% since the year 2000. It's Halftime in America and it is time we pulled our heads out of the sand and realized that movie stars endorsing government owned corporations is not what we need in this country. What we need to do is stop picking winners in the business market and cease with the artificial manipulation of our economy.

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