carol costello is joining us. scinating because we talk to people and it goes both ways. some people see it as a pro-obama ad. others saw it as a gop ad. but a lot of people kind of missing the message that it was a car. you know. it was about a car company. >> a car commercial, right exactly. it's an ode to detroit, right. i guess i have to ask our viewers this question. are you tire of talking about clint easewood's ode to detroit? i'm not. it's endlessly fascinating. whether you believe eastwood meant to be political or not detroit still has a long way to go. the city feeters on the brink of kups. but the big three are thriving. president george w. bush seems to be on eastwood's side. on monday he told a group from the national automobile association that he doesn't regret giving bailout money to the auto industry. because he says sometimes circumstances get in the way of philosophy. it's a sentiment the republicans running for office don't share. mitt romney made that quite clear, "the new york times" op-ed ent

carol costello has your responses. hair, carol. >> hi, suzanne. what is it about rick?, a man of integrity. gingrich and romney arevtj4 lik dirty car salesmen. some of them tell you what you want to hear just to get the sale. toby says, he panders to the unintelligent bible thumping social conservatives. the gop is great at using social issues to scare middle clast americans. patricia says, he's big

carol costello is joining us from washington. l, i imagine you're getting a lot of responses on this one. >> you guessed that right, suzanne. this from charles, he says, contraception may be the subject but the issue is the president's willingness to ignore the first amendment to the u.s. constitution and force a religion to break a longstanding church doctrine in the name of health care. will freedom of speech and freedom of press be next? from kristi, no, and i'm sick of hearing about it. it's not 2012, not 1912, for crying out loud. 99% of women use birth control, the gop claims to want smaller government unless it's my uterus. a gay man's bedroom and now it appears how i keep from having ten kids. the real issue is the federal government's unlawful mandate on churches and faitd-based organizations. >> great. and, carol, i want to show you this story here because you and i, we both have done our share of lots of field reporting. you and i were competitors, as a matter of fact, in d.c. a little while ago when we were both out th

carol costello has your responses. carol, religion obviously touches everybody.ical, very potent here. not surprising this is coming up during the campaign. >> oh, yeah. and, of course, this all has to do with the obama's administration decision to make the decision to have so the talk back question today, i talk too much without taking a breath. maria says yes because our country was founded on freedom of religion. jay says, no. and jackie says, no. if all of it is hospitals staff and all of its teachers were of the same faith, it would be different. the catholic organization is doing is forcing their religion on others. this from kathy. perhaps not intentionally but it is a direct result of its policies. from lonnie, waging war on religion yet attending and addressing the national prayer breakfast? >> all right. keep it going and going and going because you know what today is, carol? >> oh, yes, groundhog day. >> it's groundhog day. i want you to check out the movie clip where bill murray keeps repeating the day over and over again. >> rita, if you only had one

carol costello is joins us from washington. he's putting on the charm, huh? victory, president obama is defending himself as middle class. they don't quite get no drama obama. they wonder why the president can't express his ideas more clearly. comedians poke fun at him at an emotionalist obama who hires an anger translator named luther to convey what mr. obama really means. >> so, just so there's no confusion, we've hired luther to be my anger translator. since being in office, we've created three million new jobs. >> three million new jobs. >> and the war in iraq. >> we ended a war. >> and serve as a ree minminder i am on your side. >> i am not a muslim. >> the president seems to be trying to connect. he actually sang a bar of an al green song at a fund-raiser in new york city. ♪ i'm so in love with you >> and on nbc he celebrated actress betty white's birthday by poking fun at himself. >> dear betty, you look so fantastic and full of energy. i can't believe you're 90 years old. in fact, i don't believe it. that's why i'm writing to ask if you will be willin

carol costello, i imagine there is a lot of emotion on both sides. >> reporter: a lot of strong opinione question should the president have apologized to afghanistan from james, this country runs a lot on arrogance, doesn't matter what the extremist muslims are doing, if we want respect, we show respect. grow the held up if you're trying to put an end to the conflict you don't add fuel to the fire. from mike, no it shows weakness, extremists consider it unforgivable. good guys finishes last in diplomacy. yes of course the president should apologize, in return the afghan president should apologize for the lost of american lives. when it comes to the soldiers lives being at stake, yes. keep the conversation flowing. >>> we have a punch line, i know you're a sports fan, i don't know if you had a chance to see it last night i have to go to bed early, but jeremy lin's new york knicks lost to the miami heat haas night. >> they lost to lebron james? come on! >> he didn't have a great game but wasn't all bad news for the linsation. he got a tribeute in a "pearl jam" song. ♪ at home shooting fro

carol costello's got more. at this thinking, wait a minute, is this really fair? >> it's a strange question, isn't it? vote your conscience or not, preferably not if you're a certain kind of democrat in michigan, the sneaky kind. the kind who will vote for someone's ideals they cannot tolerate for their own greater good. joe desanno is that kind of democrat. a democratic strategist, he has contacted nearly 50,000 democratic voters, urging them to vote for rick santorum. someone whose views most democrats vehemently oppose, as a way to beat mitt romney. our own dana bash acquired desanno's robo call. >> democrats can help embarrass mitt romney and expose him as the weak front-runner that he is by supporting rick santorum on tuesday. >> maybe it will work. in the 2000 republican primary, democrats came out in relatively substantial numbers to vote for john mccain in order to hobble then front-runner george w. bush, and mccain scored an upset. this year, santorum is playing too. he's released his own robo call, ur