Posted by
Mick O. on Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:07:36 PM
Is Oprah endorsing Obama just because he's black (which can amost be the only reason she'd vote for him... he hasn't done anything yet!)? And can she swing the election?
True, Oprah has a lot of fans who hang on every word. They watch her show, buy her magazine and listen to her on the radio and are truly mind-numbed robots (in my opionion), but are they truly informed?
For example, I was watching the day that Al Gore was on and one weepy woman in her audience stood up and said, "I get it now." Well if she got it now, wouldn't she have done some research to find out that Inconvenient Truth was full of inconvenient half-truths and outright distortions? Don't get me wrong, I am for clean air and clean water, but there is no proof that global warming is happening or that man is causing it, or that Gore is the man to stop it!
Back to Oprah. She has quite a following, but is star power enough to help get someone elected? George Soros found that money alone wasn't enough to get a bad candidate (Kerry) elected in 2004. And Clooney, Pitt, Jolie, etc. weren't enough to save him either.
So what makes Oprah think that her endorsement will do anything for Obama other than make it past the first two primaries? We'll see.
In the end, my prediction is Hillary and Obama on the Democrat ticket in 2008.
Mick O.