The question is whether Oprah can have a measurable impact on Balack Obama’s campaign or just sway a few women’s votes his way?  What do you think?  http://youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=460

For all practical purposes, Obama’s not black, and Hillary isn’t a woman.  They’re politicians…who have little in common with others within the “category” the media places them.

Myself, of the two, I prefer Obama.  He has a cosmopolitan world view that could possibly bring us back into the 21st century.

To all appearances, Hillary stood by her husband as he catered to corporate interests with NAFTA.  Their presidency did more for Republican interests than Bush 1 could have dreamed of.

The questions of who would or wouldn’t vote for a woman or a black man are just media playing it like a horse race.  We have no intelligent reasons for even contemplating such questions.  We’re not obliged to play it in that superficial way.  I really believe the majority of voters just don’t care.  Whichever one loses, I’m sure it will be adjudged as a category that another category wouldn’t vote for.  And it will be analyzed all the way from FOX to a scholarly discussion on Lehrer’s Newshour.

Now KUCINICH is a horse of a different color; one with plans that directly address our most pressing needs.  That he doesn’t get the coverage of the other two is a testament to his quality.

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The simple fact that so many smart, educated women still have to consider gender as an important factor in a candidate tells you what tacit discrimination women face in everyday life where the male attitude has changed very little except on the surface. It will be interesting to see if the election of a woman to the highest office of the most powerful nation in the world has any concrete positive effect on the real lives of women everywhere. I suspect it might. But if she is perceived to do a lousy job in office, she’ll be held up forever amongst many many people, as the sole example of why females in government are a bad idea. Regardless of how many lousy male presidents have graced the halls of power since time began. I know how hard she works, has always worked, and i don’t think this will happen.

I have suffered unjustly and i’m not ashamed to say that i support Hillary Clinton, and my thoughts and prayers are with her.

Oprah only continues to blur the line between politics and entertainment. It’s not that she doesn’t or shouldn’t have an opinion, and be free to express it. The problem is that Oprah has been sanctioned by all of her sponsors. They have already made her a public spokesperson for the United States of Everything. She may sometimes push an issue that reflects genuine social understanding and compassion, but the majority of the time she reflects the social and political interests of those who pay her salary. She is her own media outlet and she knows how far to push issues if you want to stay part of the media. If she doesn’t toe the sponsor’s line she will lose her “credibility” with them. Without sponsorship where would Oprah be?
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Oprah is so full of herself she obviously believes she needs to shower us now with her political opinions. But we’ve seen her opinions at work when she denied a person in her audience critical of bu$h’s war from even speaking on her show. Why in the world would anyone consider her opiinion any more valid then anyone else you might bump into ? Is it because she’s incredibly wealthy ? Isn’t that exactly the problem with our political system today ?...the influence peddling of the rich ?  I’d be interested how she has voted these past two elections though…George Bu$h has made her alot of money in his redistribution of our tax system..do ya suppose she voted for him ? I might be impressed if she didn’t, but I doubt very much that was the case.

My concern is not with the endorsement of a celebrity.  I have never based decisions on such ‘ringing’ endorsements.  It’s too reminiscent of the ‘in crowd’ voting for the ‘cool kids.’  The fact that debate in the US has deteriorated to such an immature low should be of much more concern.  When the debate becomes so diluted; the pols on both sides of the duopoly seize the opportunity to escape accountability.  The fact that the ‘mainstream media’ reports more on Anna Nicole Smith’s death than they do on substantive issues only tears at the shredded remnants of our once existent democracy.  Once again, the media has eluded their responsibility as the ‘fourth estate,’ and focused on immature and trivial factoids, instead of covering important issues and posing challenging questions.  Let’s ‘reframe’ the argument, and insist that ALL the candidates: Obama, Clinton, Edwards, etc. provide DETAILED descriptions of their plans on the important issues of the day, and give the public time to question these people who have ...the AUDACITY to run for the highest office of the land.  As Obama has ‘...the audacity to hope…’—I have the surpassing AUDACITY to demand accountability, transparency, and fully formulated plans for this nation from each and every one of these candidates.  As for Oprah; she needs to become truly informed and stop throwing her celebrity around.

I’m really beginning to like TruthDig, but this article does not dig down into the candidates beliefs nor present anything that isn’t already known.
Besides, what happened to not judging a man/women by the color of their skin? What happened to choosing a person based on their beliefs of the issues and not whether they are a man or women.

While race and gender play a role in people decisions, because people like to identify with a candidate, let CNN or MSNBC spew this fodder. This article pathetically plays in the realm of MSM garbage. The white/black or male/female vote, should not be an issue.
Enhancing the quality of life of those in need trumps this silly little article. Let’s look at the candidate’s history in this case. Each of their backgrounds will effect their decisions related to the income divide in this country.

The one thing I’m hearing nothing about is the ISSUES. Writeabout the candidates backgrounds and how they might effect the issues. Those stories would be worthwhile.

Okay, I’ll tolerate Oprah’s advice on who the must-read authors are. She, after all, has met most of them and read their work. But, I don’t know how closely she’s followed politics to trust her recommendations for leader of the Free WORLD. Oprah has rarely shown an interest in what goes on outside her studio, that doesn’t somehow impact the bottom line of her quarterly finance report. She manages to invite everyone to entertain us asking mundanely safe questions that leave us feeling warm and fuzzy, but no better informed than when we were before tuning her in. So, that she advocates an Obama candidacy may simply indicate that, as another Illinois voter, she supports him. However, as another Illinois, I would not consider that to be enough to make Obama my choice. I still prefer to do the research myself, and recommend that everyone join me in so doing. Right both Senators Clinton and Obama are putting in so much time measuring the Oval Office for their preference of drapes and carpet until I can’t see when they have time to represent me in the Senate. Trust me, that weighs heavier with me than an indorsement from Oprah.

I will vote for Hillary if she is nominated, and I will vote for Obama if he is nominated, but as who is best for this country, who could tell, both bring talents that would serve this country, but because Obama has just arrived on the scene, I am going to say that Hillary is the best bet, but I would vote for Obama because this thing of is he black enough is a question that someone like Jessie Jackson would ask, Obama is a biracial person raised by white woman, and many people in Louisiana are biracial, many generations over many generations they used old fashioned terms like quatroon in fact La. traces people who are of black decent back seven generations, some people from Europe cannot even do that.

I believe that Obama looks at life different than most Americans because he lived overseas and he lived in Hawaii before moving to the Chicago area, the man has an outlike on life that is so different than the cowboy now in office, and this cowboy is not really a good ole boy because he spent many a summer up in the area of the country called New England, and his family certainly act like “blue Bloods”.