I had to step back and ask, "Okay, when it boils down to it, who do I feel is better at making policy and decisions.? and What exactly is Obama going to do differently than everyone else that is going to bring about this mass change that is being talked about.?"

"Another former first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote, 'In government, in business, and in the professions there may be a day when women will be looked upon as persons. We are, however, far from that day as yet.' More than 50 years later 'that day' is now upon us...and Hillary Clinton is ready to shatter through that glass ceiling for all women."

CLINTON 2008, the true SMART choice

WELL SAID!!! Post By A Sad Woman,
Our friends and family are completely disgusted with Oprah, NEVER will watch her show or buy anything because she endorses it...
SHAME ON YOU OPRAH, allot of young women were influenced by you until now that you have showed just who you really are and not the persona you play on TV...This is nit a movie Oprah, OUR GREAT COUNTRY IS IN DIRE STRAITS and you try to manipulate the election...
How do you look in the mirror!

It is a shame that in 2007 an African American cannot support someone of his/her race without being labeled "racial." Since both Oprah and Obama are from Chicago, she probably has a closer relationship to him that she does the other candidates. Oprah shouldn't be forced to endorse a White candidate just to prove her actions are not racially motivated.

In the beginning of 2007, Oprah Winfrey had a number of shows dedicated to a scam known as "The Secret". On Oprah's show and other shows hosting by others, this "The Secret” promoted pyramid schemes and made either misleading or outright false claims about their product. This is the same crowd who blamed the workers at the Twin Towers for their own deaths because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time because of their "bad thoughts”. The proof of these false "Secret" claims were made on countless websites, and respected magazines such as Newsweek and Nightline. Oprah not only endorsed this snake oil known infamously as; “The Secret" but she championed it and placed herself at the top of the pyramid of lies and deceit. "The Secret" used Oprah's shows as shameless infomercials and propaganda, and Oprah pandered endlessly to them. "The Secret" also praised a slave owner numerous times. While it may seem out of character for Oprah to allow uncontested praise of slave owners by the guests on her show, keep in mind that these slaves were white and not black–which may have made the difference for Oprah. Oprah is quick to use the race card such as when she was in Paris and demanded that a fancy store stay open just for her and when it didn’t recognize her as the head of the Oprah Cult—Oprah cried racism against the store. Not that I am suggesting that Oprah is a racist, but put this together with the fact Oprah only will support a black candidate (Barack Obama) without due consideration of other candidates. Moreover, Oprah supports Obama despite the fact that Obama shares a stage with a well known bigot. So it makes one wonder about whether Oprah is a racist in her support of Obama. Or perhaps Oprah is a very poor judge of character as witnessed by her championing of; “The Secret" which is now the subject of world wide criminal fraud investigations and lawsuits. Consider another choice of guest endorsed by Oprah. The fake doctor, who performed surgery on Kanye West's mother and then later died, was booked on Oprah and endorsed. Consider also Oprah’s choice of child abusing employees for her school. In either case, Oprah's endorsement of Obama has no meaning beyond a tv personality cynically trying to whip up some more interest in her tv show ratings, while pretending to show interest in humanity.

Posted By aj huntington ny : December 4, 2007 2:48 pm

it tells me you should read the statement he put out about it, he puts his hand on his chest to pledge allegiance to this country and sings along with the anthem!!!this is a non-issue, nice try! obama 08!

Posted By PhillyNola, New Orleans, LA : December 4, 2007 11:10 am

well written thanks you!!!

Posted By Kyu Reisch, Radcliff, Kentucky : December 4, 2007 6:50 am
dude your rantings are definitely borderline racist and immature, oprah has more class and sense to back any candidate simply because of race, she believes in barack because he has good values and sound judgement, the same way millions of americans do, you see barack you see hope, common sense and good judgement, i bet hillary would give anything to have oprah in her corner, lets keep the issues about america ok?

Your ignorance is boundless! If you were your all that your post would have reflected that. BUT NOOOO! Stop wasting bandwidth with your nonsense it make you look bad!

Posted By aj huntington ny : December 4, 2007 2:48 pm

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It tells us that YOU haven't been paying attention. Barack Obama wore his flag pin for quite a while and then stopped wearing it because he thought too many people were HYPOCRITICALLY wearing it, but not truly trying to live their statement.
(Do you wear a flag pin every day? How many Americans do?)

Barack was just like millions of Americans who believed that you show respect to our flag by singing and standing at attention and gave the Pledge of Allegiance with your hand over your heart because it is a PLEDGE. Barack showed respect by singing the Anthem, which a lot of Americans don't do, and he loudly applauded at the end. To attempt to make it seem like he is intentionally unpatriotic is nothing short of ridiculous.

How many Americans DO NOT wear flag pins? How many Americans stand at attention, but DO NOT have their hand over their hearts for the Anthem? PAY ATTENTION and find a LEGITIMATE basis for your prejudice against Barack Obama.

Not to worry....

Oprah is an entertainer, the President of the United States is not a position of entertainment.
One must win based on their own personal merits.
Buy all the tickets you want.
Heck, I would buy a ticket to see Oprah.
I would not buy nor could you give me or even pay me to take a ticket to see Obama. He is not Presidential material!

Posted By mschaefer, Los Angeles, CA : December 4, 2007 2:00 pm

The article clearly stated, and you quoted "ten months ago", ten months ago there were no 'frontrunners', there was not even a race.

You should change your handle to:
mschaefer – The Ignorant Poster

Posted By Matthew, San Francisco : December 4, 2007 12:20 pm
Good post, Matt

People won't vote for Obama just because Oprah says so. But Oprah will allow people to get a good look at Obama that normally may not pay attention.

And the thing with Obama, is that he really gets you when you start paying attention. He has the ability to wake you up and get you involved. I'm heavily involved in the campaign for the first time in my life thanks to him.

If he can get me to put my walking shoes on, Oprah can call the ball and Obama can bring it across the line for the rest of the country as well.

Trust me, we're lucky to have Obama and we're lucky Oprah is putting her walking shoes on to support him.

that means something.

Hillary 08

I would suggest to you all a close examination of his policy - and recognition of the FACT that Senator Obama has MORE YEARS OF ELECTED EXPERIENCE (that's right, NOT just residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave), than Sen. Clinton, and LESS flip-flopping and back-sliding as well! Not only that, BARACK OBAMA beats EVERY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE in Zogby electability polls - as Hillary is equally defeated across the board. She can't win the general, people! 50% of likely voters say they would "NEVER VOTE FOR CLINTON".

Enough division! We need a uniter!

Is there really any question why Sen. Obama is gaining momentum in Iowa, New Hampshire, and now my home state of South Carolina? Not because he's black - not even because he's "BLUE", but because he can BRING OUR COUNTRY together - to show the world we can look beyond complexion, and into the content of the character, and intelligence of a potential leader.

OBAMA '08!
FIRED UP!
READY TO GO!!!!

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. We're talking about registered voters here, not bloomin' idiots. Where is the faith in the American voters' intelligene?

Obama has Oprah and Huckabee has Chuck Norris. Future Secretary of Defense Chuck Norris addressing Iran: "Hey! Straighten up your act, or do you want a roundhouse kick from me while I'm wearing these badboys? I didn't think so!"

He graduated from Columbia University, where he majored in political science and specialized in international relations. He then attended Harvard Law School, graduated magna cum laude, and served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he worked as a community organizer and a civil rights lawyer in Chicago. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School as a senior lecturer specializing in constitutional law. Obama represented the South Side of Chicago in the Illinois State Senate from 1996–2004 as a Democrat. In 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, winning with 70% of the vote against the conservative black Republican, Alan Keyes. Obama became the only African-American serving in the U.S. Senate (and the fifth in U.S. history). Obama's idealism, commitment to civil rights, and telegenic good looks generated enormous media attention for his Senate campaign. The eloquence of his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Nation Convention in Boston, Mass., confirmed his status as one of the Democratic party's freshest and most inspirational new leaders.

And with an honorable mention to the next commenter, Howard Huntington, NY (at 11:07 am). So Howard, how about if we pull a "Shelly" on Shelly: the real worry is not that cretins, like the one you are responding to, use computers, its that they might actually attempt to reproduce.

Wake up dems.: ~33% of the populace looks upon the current republican debacle and actually approves of it. These "people" will be voting for the next repub. disaster-in-charge no matter what. That means the dems. have to convince over 70% of the remaining ~67% of the populace to vote for them, just to get to 50% of the overall vote.....and that's before the electoral college and "stuffed" supreme court enter in.

Since that's quite a task in front of us, how about if we democratic-leaning voters, no matter who you support, stop with the unsupported berating of the other democratic candidates. Stop acting like Rove and his mindless right-wing minions. Let's face it, anyone of Richardson, Dodd, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, etc. would move this counrty in basically the same direction and away from the disaster we are in. And everyone of the repub. disaster-in-charge-wanna-bes would basically continue to move America out of the "Age of Enlightenment". Dems., please have at it in the market place of ideas, and even honest criticisms on past records, but leave the demagoguery to the losers on the right.

Even if, for exampe, I'm a Hillary supporter, and my candidate ends up losing the nomination– do I want my country heading in the direction of the Obama/Oprah show or the Huckabee/Norris show? And if my candiate ends up winning, don't I want the Obama/Oprah show supporters supporting my candidate? As our "friends" on the religous right tend to forget, "do unto others...."

I suggest you grab a civics book and get educated on how the electoral college works. Whether it is fair or not it is the reality which presidential politics exist. Ask Al Gore.