Comments on: The Oprah-Obama revival tour: “It was like a religious experience”

By: Michelle Malkin » Gee, thanks, Oprah!

Michelle Malkin » Gee, thanks, Oprah! — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:14:18 +0000

[...] puts down her Obama pom-poms and hedges her bets. She tells ABC News that she could change her mind about her man: As soon as [...]

By: gfchicago

gfchicago — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:36:32 +0000

If Hillary is not caught red-handed running a dogfighting or child prostitution ring, she’s getting the nomination.

I don’t even think that would knock Hillary out of the nomination. The Clintons have gotten a pass on every questionable or illegal thing that they’ve done.

I’ve never understood the fasination with Opra myself. She’s never really impressed me in any way.

The posters on this board are correct She who must not be named, must be stopped at all costs.

I’d like to see on the Republican side a Thompson/Hunter ticket. I can really get behind those two and they would most certainly get my vote. But if it comes right down to it I would hold my nose and vote for whomever the Republican nominee is.

By: blues

blues — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:33:19 +0000

“now America could do anything”–America always could do anything,dingbat.
To be redundant,a vote for Obama will be a vote for Clinton,in my opinion.

By: deepdiver

deepdiver — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:19:53 +0000

I can’t stand Oprah. I used to see her program because of a co-worker. Back in the day in the psych program in college we used to discuss how destructive much of Oprah’s advice was for women in general and relationships in particular. For years I have been unwilling to date a woman who watches Oprah. It tells me something about her I don’t want to ever have to live with. Needless to say, I would suggest that someone who voted for Obama because of Oprah is even more retarded than someone who votes for Hillary because she (supposedly) was born with a uterus.

By: donnab13

donnab13 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:32:05 +0000

Am I the only one that noticed that Oprah and Hillary have something in common?
They both can call on that black southern preacher accent when they deem it appropriate.
Maybe the girls should get together and give each other some notes on delivery.

By: davidleerothmann

davidleerothmann — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:32:18 +0000

I can’t imagine Obama wresting the nomination from Hillary. Surely Oprah understands this? I don’t care what happens, if Hillary is not caught red-handed running a dogfighting or child prostitution ring, she’s getting the nomination. I think Oprah is using her celebrity endorsement to secure the VP nomination for Obama. Hillary would never select him on her own, because it’s a terrible ticket. Two liberal junior Senators, both from the North makes no sense. Oprah can use her celebrity and her platform to bully Hillary if it comes to that. That’s the only rationale I can see behind Oprah supporting Obama so vigorously.

By: AlohaGuy

AlohaGuy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:49:10 +0000

Heard any of his indepth plans for our country except for soundbites?

Bombing Pakistan comes to mind…

By: katieanne

katieanne — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:46:08 +0000

“It was like a religious experience”

And just what religion is that?

I have never understood the fascination people have with Oprah. And I don’t think Obama will be able to withstand the scrutiny when the Republicans go after him if he is indeed the candidate. What has he done? Scarier still, what does he stand for? Heard any of his indepth plans for our country except for soundbites? Horrors.

Talk about shallow. Do what Oprah says. She knows. Right? Gag me.

By: ScaryBiscuits

ScaryBiscuits — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:37:13 +0000

From CNN: “‘Dr. King dreamed the dream. We get to vote that dream into reality by supporting a man who knows not just who we are but who we can be,’ she told the crowd.”

I heard this quote on the radio this morning, and it immediately rubbed me the wrong way. My immediate thought was, “Why are we not beyond this?” The election of a commander-in-chief, a head of state should not be about race or gender; it should be based on issues, about how the candidates would solve the problems we currently face. In this, I don’t mean just the feminine “community” or the “African-American community” — I mean all of us, as Americans. Yet, the Obama campaign is relying heavily on the Black community to vote for him because, shock, he’s Black; Hillary, on the other hand, is expecting the “female vote.” It really reminds me of the rush in the blogosphere to grab the first post on a thread: Both want to claim “First!” But instead of supporting the campaigns for this, someone should be asking if they are qualified for the job.

Then again, given the current state of politics, that might be a true “First!”

By: TXRose

TXRose — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:39:10 +0000

I was hoping that since Cynthia McKinney has thrown her hat into the ring for the green party, that Oprah would switch her allegiance. Nope. Not gonna happen.
However, we saw what a landslide Dean supposedly had before the primaries and what happened to him ( and no, I don’t believe the scream did him in) and it is a fact
of life that all of the hoopla cannot always predict the election. You have to get those
voters into the polls. You have to get those ballots marked. If Dean’s supporters could
have voted on their computers he may have won, but come election day, they could not be bothered to go vote. It’s always that way. More people vote for reality tv contestants than for president because they can do it from home and in the moment.
Our campaign time frames go on for so long that most people that I know, that don’t vote, will say, either, I just got so tired of it all that I didn’t want to have any
part of the mess, or, gee, that was yesterday? Guess I just forgot.

By: dakine

dakine — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:15 +0000

I don’t have much use for either party, but as a bit of a election junkie I’ll be interested to see how much impact the Oprah factor has on the female vote in the primaries. Conventional wisdom tells us that these sorts of celebrity endorsements historically don’t have much of an effect on voters, but this one feels different to me. If Oprah can move enough of the women’s vote, you never know. BTW, I think it’s a mistake to underestimate Obama in a general election. I don’t see a Reagan among the Republican candidates…a very flawed and weak field IMHO.

By: The Raging Republican

The Raging Republican — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:05:34 +0000

Its so funny! You realize that all of those people just showed up to see Oprah??? They don’t care about Obama. He has done nothing in the polls since Oprah came out and endorsed him. Nothing.

By: locomotivebreath1901

locomotivebreath1901 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:49:25 +0000

What’s most disturbing in all of this is the simple fact that the wealthiest woman in America (who prospered most from its capitalist friendly environment) is endorsing a populist candidate with an aggressive socialist agenda.

The theme maybe ‘the audacity of hope’, but the candidate has a ‘paucity of (good) ideas’.

~Must be hangin too much w/ warren buffet.

By: CommentGuy

CommentGuy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:48:58 +0000

The left side blogs are falling so hard over Ms O’s performance at 4 appearances they are wondering when she is going to run for office herself.

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:46:00 +0000

Anyone see “America’s first black president” giving an interview on the CBS morning show to a gushing Harry Smith in his little used Harlem office?

Think this is a coincidence or designed to reign in the black vote for Hillary?

Even funnier are the commentaries saying how much Bill Clinton helped the blacks. Yeah right. Only if you call using black churches as props every time he got into some kind of scrape. Which was often. I can’t think of a single thing he (or Hillary, for that matter) did for blacks.

I wonder when the blacks are going to realize they are being played by people that don’t give a flying fig about them?