Oprah's big bucks could help Obama in a big way

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(CNN) -- It's big news that the goddess of talk, Oprah Winfrey, is throwing a huge shindig for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama at her California estate that is expected to bring in $3 million...

No one knows for sure what the effect will be with Oprah backing Obama because she has never thrown her full support behind a political candidate...

Although The Post reported that Oprah is in talks with the Obama campaign about taking an active role -- appearing at rallies or cutting campaign commercials -- she could instead choose to launch her own 527 political group that wouldn't have any spending restrictions.

Imagine this scenario: Oprah chooses to create the "O for Obama" 527 group. She then seeds it with $5 million, and plans a series of radio and TV ads touting Obama in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Arizona.
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The whole article is here
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/07/martin/index.html

I think that Oprah throwing her support behind a 527 would be a very formidable force. Could possibly actually see the sort of influence on an election that moveon.org can only dream of.
 
Obamma has a line in which he says "how would America feel about its self the day after I was elelcted?"

I have to admitt this got to me.

I thought about how I would feel after the election for all the candidates and I would have to admitt an Obamma Presidency was the one that gave me the most pleasure.

It has that added thing with it that America would truely feel it had cleared a hurdle.

I think he is plenty bright enough , the supposed lack of experience is a plus to me, He pretty much is what you see from what I can tell and he would bring this sense of new hope that Im not sure any other current candidate can bring.

I do recognise that going on feelings in a presidential election is compoletely silly but it was an interesting thing to ponder.
 
Desh said:
Obamma has a line in which he says "how would America feel about its self the day after I was elelcted?"

I have to admitt this got to me.

I thought about how I would feel after the election for all the candidates and I would have to admitt an Obamma Presidency was the one that gave me the most pleasure.

It has that added thing with it that America would truely feel it had cleared a hurdle.

I think he is plenty bright enough , the supposed lack of experience is a plus to me, He pretty much is what you see from what I can tell and he would bring this sense of new hope that Im not sure any other current candidate can bring.

I do recognise that going on feelings in a presidential election is compoletely silly but it was an interesting thing to ponder.
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If you want someone raised in a madrassa as president, sure.
 
The "lack of experience" thing is BS. Lincoln had served one term in the House of Representatives from 1846-48 and lost a bid to the Senate in 1858. But he was still a hell of leader at the most perilous time in US history.
 
Socrtease said:
Yeah lets not let american citizens hold office if they were living outside the US as a child. Are you sure you just don't want someone with that much melanin in their skin?
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I'm positive that's not the case. I'd love herman Cain, walter E. Williams, just to name two blacks I wouldn't mind. There are others.
 
Socrtease said:
The "lack of experience" thing is BS. Lincoln had served one term in the House of Representatives from 1846-48 and lost a bid to the Senate in 1858. But he was still a hell of leader at the most perilous time in US history.
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That's interesting, but even still, that was Lincoln. I don't think that means that every inexperienced person has it in them to rise to those heights. There is something about Obama that I find too much like Hillary...always with the finger in the air, which way is the wind blowing today? So careful, so...conservative.

Putting aside what I might think of the particular candidate, I have to say I find it alarming when a woman who is absolutely nothing more than a pop phenomenon, as far as i know, an idiot, without any intellectual credentials whatsoever, might actually pick the next President. I suppse that would be a fitting denouement to the American Century (which has ran over a bit)wouldn't it? I actually saw Arianna Huffington claiming that millions of women watch Oprah, and they listen to her. If she says read this book, they read this book...so if she says "vote for this guy" that cannot be underestimated. I mean, that's just frightening at the same time it is ludicrious. I don't even know anybody who watches Oprah. This is foreign to me.
 
Imagine: the popular media claiming that a mega media personality could propel Obama to new heights.

That's not exactly an endorsement from an unbiased source. I think the media is like the 17 year old self-obsessed teenage prima dona, primiping in front of the mirror 4 hours a day. I don't put much stock in their pronouncement that Oprah could turn the election around. In that sense, I think Darla has a great point. I really think the oprah factor is totally over rated.
 
I think he's experienced enough to be Hillary's vice president, he has zero shot at the top spot.
 
The experience thing is B.S.

Obama has as much experience at Mitt Romney, and will have had nearly as much experience as Fred Thompson.
 
Mitt is also a longshot, doubt he'd make a good VP

It will be Hillary/Richardson or Hillary/Obama if he can swallow his pride.
 
I don't know about the Hillary Richardson thing. Rumors are flying all over the state that Senator Domenici is going to announce that he is not going to seek re-election in 08 and will endorse Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM). When that happens there is speculation that Richardson will drop out of the race and announce his candidacy for Senator. If that happens another Senate seat will fall from the republican party. One that has been held by Domenici since 1972.
 
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I don't know about the Hillary Richardson thing. Rumors are flying all over the state that Senator Domenici is going to announce that he is not going to seek re-election in 08 and will endorse Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM). When that happens there is speculation that Richardson will drop out of the race and announce his candidacy for Senator. If that happens another Senate seat will fall from the republican party. One that has been held by Domenici since 1972.
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Hillary isn't going to pick Richardson. That's just Topper talk.

That's interesting about that Senate seat though.
 
Darla said:
That's interesting, but even still, that was Lincoln. I don't think that means that every inexperienced person has it in them to rise to those heights. There is something about Obama that I find too much like Hillary...always with the finger in the air, which way is the wind blowing today? So careful, so...conservative.

Putting aside what I might think of the particular candidate, I have to say I find it alarming when a woman who is absolutely nothing more than a pop phenomenon, as far as i know, an idiot, without any intellectual credentials whatsoever, might actually pick the next President. I suppse that would be a fitting denouement to the American Century (which has ran over a bit)wouldn't it? I actually saw Arianna Huffington claiming that millions of women watch Oprah, and they listen to her. If she says read this book, they read this book...so if she says "vote for this guy" that cannot be underestimated. I mean, that's just frightening at the same time it is ludicrious. I don't even know anybody who watches Oprah. This is foreign to me.
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Winfrey is the richest woman in American entertainment by far and is among the richest people in the world at number 562. MIllions of women do indeed watch Oprah religiously and a book on her list is good as gold.

Given all the other pundits and psuedo know-it-all that Americans listen to .. why not Oprah?

I say that even though I've never watched her show, don't care for her, and I'm amazed at what makes her popular. However, in spite of what I think, she's made almost two billion dollars out of whatever talent she has.
 
blackascoal said:
Winfrey is the richest woman in American entertainment by far and is among the richest people in the world at number 562. MIllions of women do indeed watch Oprah religiously and a book on her list is good as gold.

Given all the other pundits and psuedo know-it-all that Americans listen to .. why not Oprah?

I say that even though I've never watched her show, don't care for her, and I'm amazed at what makes her popular. However, in spite of what I think, she's made almost two billion dollars out of whatever talent she has.
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Yeah, why not?
 
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