So now that I've read the text, I don't think it's hard to imagine someone reading it with a political bent. It's a little like those optical illusions - do you see two faces or a wine glass? Whatever you see first tends to 'stick' and is reinforced.
He refers to
'Both teams' as a parallel to our lives, but says this isn't a game. That sure sounds like a reference to two political parties. If it was just about Americans coming together to overcome hard times, then who are the 'two teams'? We would all be one team, working together, no?
The people of Detroit know a little something about this. They almost lost everything.' OK, my mind almost fills that sentence in - 'They almost lost everything,
but the government came in and saved them'.
And, times when we didn’t understand each other. Again, this seems like some sort of 'us versus them'. Who isn't understanding each other? Wouldn't we work together to overcome hard times? It seems reasonable to me to suggest they could be referring to the two political parties.
Detroit’s showing us it can be done. And, what’s true about them is true about all of us. Could be read as: 'The govt saved Detroit, and we can count on them to save the rest of America, if we let them'.
Yeah, it’s halftime America. And, our second half is about to begin. Again, if you start down this path, that sure could be read as a reference to the first and second terms of an administration.
I'm not trying to be political with those comments, I'm just trying to illustrate how it could be read. I kind of heard some of that as I listened the first time. I think it comes across stronger on analysis. But it might not have been intended that way at all, I have no idea. It's just a possibility, and not a far-out one, AFAIAC.
I have not heard any comments on this one way or the other on the 'wing' radio stations - I like to flip back and forth between them sometimes, just to hear the different takes on things.
Oh, as to the comments on Clint's voice - I think he was trying to sound more like Clint Eastwood than Clint Eastwood does!
He is a great actor/director (I still need to see his recent war movies), and I wouldn't mind a bit if I woke up one day with his rugged good looks
-ERD50