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On principle its bad form for a big company like Chrysler to be pushing a political message that furtively favours one side but I don't know if its that big a deal though, in part because Eastwood is entitled to endorse whoever he wants.

ON PRINCIPAL, it's pretty much fucking rotten for big business to rather openly declare as a class that they will not spend any money to employ people until they remove the sitting President. The phrase 'bloodless coup' comes to mind. So I think in the bigger picture (if this even IS an Obama centric message) it's better form than what the opposition is resorting to.
  But nobody's said there's any super pac money flowing here. And Clint Eastwood is a pretty died in the wool conservative.

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So maybe they have a right to report to America about things that have WORKED.
And if it tips things in favor of the guy who conceived the manner of recovery, he EARNED it. It was a big risk.

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The concern may also be that Chrysler is agitating for its own interests because a conservative government is far less likely to bail them out again than Obama.

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If they are in part using tax payers money because they rely on it for their recovery then it might be perceived a double slap in the face.

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If they wanted to report it then fair enough, they should do it out in the open but they did it in a furtive way by placing it in a strongly emotive advert heavily laced with patriotism.

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The concern may also be that Chrysler is agitating for its own interests because a conservative government is far less likely to bail them out again than Obama.

Well I suppose that would be the case if you wanted to extrapolate into the area of irrational fears. The fact however is that GM is now the top manufacturer in terms of sales and profit/per unit in the world. And toyota and honda have sunk to the back of the pack. In fact, GM did so well in the past year and a half that the payback was accelerated beyond expectations. Well beyond

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If they wanted to report it then fair enough, they should do it out in the open but they did it in a furtive way by placing it in a strongly emotive advert heavily laced with patriotism.

They've already DONE that. You're familiar with the nature of the major halftime commercials in the superbowl and what that ritual is all about, right?
   Those advertisements, or many of them anyway, are tailored to air ONCE and are literally wrapped around the superbowl. It would be an UNGODLY waste of money and the viewer's time to run any commercial that wasn't a) Very Theatrical. And b)If about the United States (this is in no way the first), it will typically be GROSSLY Patriotic.

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There was nothing odd about this particular one except that it was narrated by a man with a very favored reputation and a known conservative, and it didn't endorse a republican or continue in the tradition of them claiming credit for anything good since sliced bread.

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Its been said a lot that the US won't get back 1.3 or so billion even with the Obama loan paid back because this relates to the initial Bush loan http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/president-obamas-phony-accounting-on-the-auto-industry-bailout/2011/06/06/AG3nefKH_blog.html and Tazzy's source suggests a good deal of the cash won't be repaid

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I read a few conflicting reports on how well Chrysler is doing but I must admit I'm not well up on the facts of the story since its not an issue where I am. Its been said a lot that the US won't get back 1.3 or so billion even with the Obama loan paid back because this relates to the initial Bush loan