Oprah Winfrey showed Sunday why she might be Barack Obama’s secret weapon in the Democratic primaries. Her star power helped attract a huge crowd of more than 25,000 to a stadium in South Carolina, where the billionaire media mogul showed her talent for connecting with ordinary folks.
Oprah declared that Obama “speaks to the potential inside of every one of us†and asked people to embrace his “new vision†for America.
It was good TV. But how many people will Oprah convince to actually go out and vote? Surely enough to worry the Clinton campaign.
With Obama gaining momentum in polls, the race neck and neck, and the primaries just around the corner, Oprah’s appearances will put wind in his sails at a key moment.
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Whether you like her or not, Oprah does have alot of power with people and she does connect to the common person.
But the biggest factor that I see is that Oprah talks directly to women of all colors, shapes and sizes. The women is what will determine this election this time around.
LOOKS LIKE OPRAH AND OBAMA SWITCHED PLACES, OPRAHS NOW RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT? AND OBAMA IS HER CAMPAIGNE FLUNKIE?Go Oprah! We ALL know if anyone can’t take the attention off of obama’s no experience lack of leadership, refusing to show up and vote in the senate on Iran, Abortion measures etc… Seeking a trillion-dollar tax hike and raising the retirement age for Social Security!!!! Is not in favor of a health care plan to cover all children rich or poor and that he cannot make a decision on his own. You can….YOU have disgraced American woman, now as a last ditch effort you throw Dr Kings name at the black voters, now American knows where you stand on race…
SHAMEFUL ACT…I SUGGEST WE ALL TUNE OUT BOTH!!!
WAKE UP AMERICA! Its time we stop playing with Oprah and elect a QUALIFIED PRESIDENT!!! not just a man because he’s black and oprah says so, she may know soap and books, but why in he world would anyone jeopardize your future because a TV talk show host said so?… This weekends Oprah circus, will not help obama, its make us all realize Oprahs running the show not obama…Our great country needs a qualified leader, maybe if oprah was legally running, but obama is…. Glad the dog and pony show is over
Hillary’s historic statement at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 that “women’s rights are human rights” still echoes worldwide. As a lawyer, advocate, First Lady, and senator, Hillary has fought for issues important to women here at home and around the world for decades. Today, despite the progress women have made, they earn only 77 cents for every dollar men earn — and women of color earn even less. Hillary is leading the charge in the Senate to strengthen equal pay laws and end pay disparities between men and women. She introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act to strengthen the penalties associated with wage discrimination, to ensure that the federal government sets a higher standard, and to increase oversight of employers. Hillary has also worked to increase access to capital and other support for women-owned businesses.When it comes to each woman’s ability to make the most personal of life decisions, Hillary has stood firm as an advocate for a woman’s right to choose. She has expanded access to family planning services, including for low-income women. She spoke out forcefully against the Supreme Court’s April 2007 decision that — for the first time in decades — failed to recognize the importance of women’s health.Hillary has worked to empower women throughout the world, especially low-income women. She has advocated for access to microfinance programs that enable women to start their own businesses and spoken out strongly against the tragic practice of sex trafficking.As president, Hillary will continue her lifelong fight to ensure that all Americans are treated with respect and dignity.
Hillary has fought the relentless and insidious efforts by far-right Republicans to limit the protections of Roe v Wade, while also working hard to expand access to family planning services.Hillary has seen what happens when governments try to control a woman’s reproductive health decisions. Whether it was Romania under a dictatorship saying you had to have children for the good of the state or China saying you had to have only one child for the good of the state, governments have dictated the most private and important decisions that we as individuals or families can make.She has championed the Prevention First Act, which expands access to family planning services for low-income women, requires health insurance companies to cover contraception, and provides a dedicated funding stream for age-appropriate, medically accurate, comprehensive sex education.
As First Lady, she helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act and helped found the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancies, which established and achieved a goal of reducing teen pregnancies by one-third between 1996 and 2005.
In partnership with Senator Patty Murray, Hillary waged a successful three-year battle to get the Food and Drug Administration to accept the overwhelming recommendation of the medical community and make Plan B (the “morning after” pill) available over the counter.Hillary’s work to empower low-income women has changed lives. She fought for the elimination of school fees, which prevent poor children in some countries from attending school, and for investments in health care and education for women and girls. And she helped found Vital Voices, a not-for-profit organization that continues to work to support women’s leadership around the globe.
Hillary is a flunky. She flunked her first Bar exam.
Al Hunt says Hillary is in trouble:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=anRcoLyfN0VM
Also, Andrew Young has said some rather strange stuff about the Clintons, and he SUPPORTS Hillary over Obama:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/687937,obamayoung120807.article
What the MSM is NOT repeating, is that Andrew Young also said that Hillary’s job, as chief political manager of Bills “Bimbo Eruptions” was one Hillary’s major accomplishments!
Meanwhile, over in the GOP:
http://www.kansas.com/wireupdates/story/251062.html
Huckabee pardons under scrutiny
Apparently Huckabee has been REAL busy!
“As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand in twice as many pardons and commutations as his three predecessors combined.”
As long as it is Hillary V Huckabee, Huckabee is fine!
Hillary does NOT want this race to be about the protection of sexual preditors!
I hope the MSM picks up the stories about Huckabee’s massive campaign to release convicted violent criminals. So far they seem to want to hide the truth about their newest darling.
Paul complains that Hillary flunked her first bar exam. However he really likes that genius Bush who must have clearly been an A student who got into Ivy League colleges based on his academic merits.
Oprah is a good entertainer.
That’s all I have to say about that. :)
Huckabee hands out pardons and clemency like a pedophile hands out lollipops at a playground. ‘Gee guy, you murdered someone but you mowed my lawn really well so how about a pardon?’ ‘Keith Richards, I’m such a big fan. How about a pardon?’ ‘You murdered a guy and raped women but your minister says you’re a fine guy so I’m going to see that you get let out of prison.’
On the other hand Hillary is married to Bill and that makes her awful. Obama is half-black and his middle name is Hussein so that makes him awful. Edwards gets haircuts so we can’t vote for him. Bill Richardson is Hispanic so we can’t vote for him.
Funny how the Republicans whine about Democrats when any Democratic candidate is much better than any candidate, especially rapist loving Huckabee.
Hillary also loves rapists.
Well, that is a bit srong.
I can not really claim to know what is in her heart.
…and guess who introduced Obama and Donnie McCloset? You got it. The big O.
Bigots of a feather flock together?
Paul – “Get past the dishonest campaign rhetoric, will you?”
No proof whatsoever to your claim against Hillary.
Ben
I can not prove that Hillary loves Bill.That is why I admitted that I could not “prove” that Hillary loves a rapist!
If you will look, upthread, you will see that someone called Huckabee a “rapist lover” — hey, fair is fair!
http://www.deletehillary.com/rape.htm
Another link:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/
article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46805
I am “cheating” on the Blogs “spam filter”
Delete the space between the link lines.
The Eagle does not like World Net Daily!
here is the other half
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46805
Paul – what you cannot prove is your BS snakeoil claim that Bill is a rapist! You Clinton ahters have been spewing that line if BS for decades now!
In Huckabee’s case these guys have been CONVICTED. Generally speaking, in this country, that means they have gone through due process and the charges have been PROVEN! I realize that Law is a bit beyond freshman level economics but perhaps you could ask your attorney about standards of proof etc.
“If you will look, upthread, you will see that someone called Huckabee a “rapist lover” — hey, fair is fair!”
Econ
I don’t know about the fair is fair thing — basically it reduces you to the same child like level as the other person —Most of your posts on things accounting and economic are smart and well thought out, some a real informative lesson on Capitalism (If I don’t understand something you say I usually go to Capitalism.org — seems a good primer on the topic) –
Ben,Paul has been to court on various charges and won – hence his claim of expertise in this area. Can you make the same claim?
The law is a thing accused criminals learn pretty fast.
Surprise, surprise…Oprah endorses a black man. Has she ever endorsed any other candidate? No. It is simple racism…vote for him because he is black?
… from what I’ve heard she’s never endorsed a candidate before —
And remember Steven – since Paul has been ACCUSED he is automatically a guilty criminal – based on his own logic.
taz,
CBS caught a South Carolina guy who claimed he didn’t want to sound racist. But he couldn’t vote for a colored man to be President.
Is that your view?
Why do you care so adamantly what Oprah did?
Your calling America stupid for not seeing the obvious! They happen to have black skin.
Oprah is a person that gets beyond color lines. She can market anything to anybody. She’s got too much business credit to be doing stuff only for one purpose.
She smart enough, made a personal decision to endorse Obama who is qualified to be a legitimate candidate for President.
If you view them only as blacks negatively, that’s your problem, not theirs.
“ACCUSED he is automatically a guilty criminal – based on his own logic.”
Yes, Ben, thanks for pointing out yet another irony brought to you by the comedy king, Paul Rossell.
You lefties are getting a bit testy, aren’t you?
It is a factual point that I am making:
Hillary will not be able to attack Huckabee on the rape case issue.
1.) Bill’s own history would make Hillary unlikely to want to open up this topic, for general discussion.2.) Bill’s own history of giving out pardons also would make Hillary unlikely to jump on this issue.
I do not have to “prove” anything. The allegations are out there, the subject of many books and articles.
Bill Clinton can sue for slander or lible, but he does not.
Truth is an absolute defense against slander or libel.
Yes, for the average citizen, “proof, in a court of law, beyond a reasonable doubt” is the standard.
For a couple that wants to get back into the White House, after abusing that priveledge the first time around?
No! They must rise to a higher standard, and they can’t.—-By the way, Ben and others on this thread: You are attacking me now over my concern for Clintons’ past, however, not long ago, you were attacking me for questioning Morrison on similar issues.I was not trying to put Morrison in jail, I was trying to put his moral grandstanding in perspective.Yes, Morrison was grandstanding over “privacy” and other trumped up issues, while also, successfully, trashing Kline for even mentioning Morrison’s past harrassment issues.
Now, you libs are trying to bash Huckabee.Huckabee has not been accused of rape.Huckabee has never even been accused of mistreating women.Huckabee has only been attacked for going easy on a rapist. Said rapist also had the ear of Democrat Governor Jim Guy Tucker and the support of 7 Democrats on the parole board.
I did not ask for Clinton to be sent to jail.
However, I do think Bills past makes Hillary unlikely to trash Huckabee over this.
Proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and criminal conviction of a crime, are hardly necessary, in order for me to make that political point.
allegations Paul – nothing more. Just a bunch of repeated spew from the haters.
“Proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and criminal conviction of a crime, are hardly necessary, in order for me to make that political point.”
Therefore, Paul, each and every allegation EVER maed against you by ANYONE should be taken as legitimate to use against you. Truth is unimportant. According to you at least.
Of course, for a snake oil salesman what more should I expect?
BenEase up on the caffein and try to get more sleep.
For Heaven’s sake, I have not said anything that isn’t being said, repeatedly, in high-ranking DEMOCRAT circles right now, and you know it.
Hickabee’s own competitors will destroy him over this issue. The right eats their own.
Obama? I don’t like him. He’s too nice. Oprah is too nice.
Republicans don’t play nice. They don’t understand it.
I would not underestimate her. I think she will prove to be able to deliver votes to Obama. How many votes I dunno yet but she has alot of pull with women and some pull with blacks who are key Democratic voters.
I do not hate Hillary. I just think Obama is more passionate about the issues I believe in and that he will fight harder for all of us including women. I also believe he is more electable.
I wish people were more honest. Oprah is a good entertainer on television and Obama appears to me to be a decent man.
But why can’t Oprah just be honest and say, “In all my life this is the first time I have been on the campaign trail for a presidential candidate. The reason I am supporting Obama is not just because he is black, but also because of what he stands for.”
At least admit he is her first, because they share the same skin color.
Everyone knows it. So why not just be out front with it?
AW
In her presentation I do believe she said that (but also because of what he stands for.”)
Paul – I am simply stating that you should be treated as you treat others. And that means using unsubstantiated rumors as fact. By the way; I son’t really think WND is a Democratic publication. Nor is your hate-spew ‘deletehillary’
BenAt least one lib has, on these Huckabee threads, stated the Huckabee was as much “guilty of rape and murder as the man he released” — I notice no chastisement, from the left, for the extremism, on the left.
Again, Hillary knows that much of the dirt on Bill is true.
Therefore, you need something else, if you face Huckabee in the general.
Hillary will NOT want to talk about pardons, parole boards, or sexual misconduct.
Hillary will NOT want to talk about pardons, parole boards, or sexual misconduct.
Let’s hope to God Ms Flip-Flop never gets the chance. Enough of her lies already.
heh
Sean Hannity bailed on Hickabee today.
1000 pardons SOME of them murderers.
The guy sure is ….godlike in his personal dispensation of justice.
Will that overshadow the acts with the law and order folks on the right.
Nope.
Stick a fork in Hickabee. He’s done.
Video: Andrew Young disses Obama, extols the Clintons’ blacknessBy Michelle Malkin • December 8, 2007 01:18 PM
(Cross-posting from Hot Air. Too good not to share with you over here!)
Thanks to Redding News Review for the story and Dan Riehl for this jaw-dropping video of former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young talking smack about Barack Obama and touting Bill Clinton’s, ahem, familiarity with black women. Young also pushes the Obama/madrassa rumor. Sometimes, as I noted yesterday in another context, your biggest fans are your worst enemies:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/12/05/volunteer-county-coordinator-for-hillary-pushing-obamamadrassa-rumor/
If Huckabee falls who’s next? Gingrich?
Ya know Ben,
That sets me to thinking.
This election is not like any in recent memory.
The GOP doesn’t have a clear candidate. The ones they DO have are boring, sleepy, hypocritical, too close to bush, wrong on the hot buttons, or just plain crazy.
You match the characterization with the name.
Anywho…
Could it be that a Gingrich or the like is laying out there waiting to make a real convention of it?
Maybe they will choose the nominee the way Latka’s (Taxi, remember that series?) country chose their leader. Hold a dinner party and the guy who shows up last is IT.
It’s interesting.
I don’t mind that they’ve formed a circular firing squad. I don’t mind that at ALL.
Republicans, they aren’t good team players. It’s not in their nature.
And my sharing that here won’t change OR help them.
I just have this feeling there is someone looking to take advantage and TRY to collect all the pieces.
I dont think Hillary will attack Huckabee on the rape case either, my moneys on Thompson.
Really Tom — I get the impression most of the time Thompson is asleep at the switch … and I wonder if any women fromm his hollywood days are gonna come crawling out of the woodwork — you gotta believe his GOP and Dem opponents are looking into it
I think it’s gonna be Romney vs Obabma or Edwards — don’t know if Mitt is gonna overcome the Mormon issue with the Christian Conservatives .. his speech the other day doesn’t seem to have endeared him much more to them
kind of iffy on Obama — too many racists and bigots remain who will jam the polls to insure a black man does not get elected -
It doesnt take much energy to make an attack ad, and Fred already has attack both Rommey and Huckabee in the Youtube debate with an ad
If Obama was conservative, I would vote for him.
I will vote for Romney, if he is nominated, but I know the Mormon thing will hurt him.
The guy with the money is econpaulies guy.
Who’d a thunk it?
Me.
Where did the Clintons make all of their money?Their wealth far outstrips what their government pay could provide.