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I tend to think Palin would not be interested in appearin g on Oprah, Oprah has to try to maintain “control” and DRUDGE is happy to help with that presentation.
Now, what would be sweet would be for Palin to say thanks, but no thanks, when Oprah tries to get an early interview wiht the first female VP of the United States.
Oprah has issued a statement to TMZ ” she won”t put Sarah Palin on her show until after the election.
Would a pit bull be afraid of appearing on Oprah? I do recall that Oprah had Barack and Michelle on her show, but I believe that was before he announced his candidacy.
Oprah should not have Palin on her show. Oprah Winfrey, who made the first political endorsement of her life this year in supporting Barack Obama supporting Barack Obama, said in a statement Friday said in a statement Friday that she would be happy to have Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin on her show — but not until after the election is over.
Palin should say to Oprah that you are more than welcome to visit the White House, after out term is up.
Oprah would not ask her about serious policy issues, and while she is a good interviewer, she probably wouldn’t go hard on Palin’s lack of experience and pitiful awareness of world issues. Over at Oprah Community (where her website forum is) they just had their Global Issues page mysteriously go down.
I am willing to admit that it could have been immaturity on my part but trust me there has been a lot of “Oprah says” going on for too many years.
My mother stopped watching Oprah’s show because of if and my mother blames Oprah for creating Obama’s image.
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Barack Obama experience is about people first. He is unique and this is why Oprah supports him. She clearly sees the same in Barack Obama.
Nearly half (47 percent) said they would rather dine with Ellen, compared with 14 percent who preferred Oprah. To be sure, Oprah remains one of the most popular figures in America, but recent data suggest her popularity has eroded. One possible explanation for this decline is that her endorsement of Obama and her support for him may have done more to damage impressions of her than to strengthen support for Obama.
The post is about Oprah’s popularity not about Obama being electable. Well, either it’s a coincidence or endorsing Obama has really hurt Oprah. If its the latter, then it does not bode well for Obama’s chances in the fall.
God, er huh, Oprah, is being very up front and honest. She supports Obama and therefore will not have his rivals on.
Hillary and Edwards are comfortable working within the system and will not work to change it. Obama is our man because he is lacking in D.C. Oprah is an amazing woman, but visit Obama’s website and read about his views on issues and you’ll see that it doesnt take experience in Washington to be able to have the correct vision for our country.
I think the “perch of sanctimonious righteousness” has just extended to the area occupied by your post. I think Oprah was very clear why she doesn’t like most politicans on her show. Don’t blame Oprah, blame the millions he voted for Bush repeatedly.
I agree with the comment that “If Oprah supports Obama then i am for Obama.” I know many people as well who have either changed their vote or are now giving Obama a second look because of Oprah.
All Women of all races were already swayed Obama’s way when Oprah came out to support him, Oprah single Handedly gave the entire Nations Women Voters to Obama.() Oprah has been kind enough to detail some of her personal history personal history.
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Did those folks show up to support for Obama or Oprah?? I’m sorry - this is nothing against Obama - he seems like a decent enough guy - and though I agree with Hilary regards the road the nation is on - I just can’t vote for Obama - he doesn’t have the knowledge, the experience and I really think he doesn’t have the ability least not yet he’s just not there yet.
Oprah gives away cars to get attention. Although she is a nice person I hardly think she nor any talk show host is suppose to be taken verbatem for world leadership. There is no way the south is going to support Obama at this time.
Oprah attracted some bodies to the fair. She told us why she supports Barack Obama. I am voting for Barack Obama and no one else.
Although I don’t watch Oprah, nor care for talk shows in general, I’m offended by the remarks many readers have made about Oprah’s humanitarian work around the world. Oprah did a good deed and built a school in South Africa, more than others of her same econmic standing would do, and now you berate her for choosing to do it abroad instead of in the U.S.?
I’m prefacing my remarks by saying I like Obama, I really do. As for Oprah, her self-promotion is always evident to those who are not under her spell. Yes, it is Oprah! I would have personally found her more credible if the first person she chose to publicly support did not just happen to be black.
Oprah has a right to lend her political support to Obama, just like any other person does. I sense that some people are threatened by Obama and Oprahbecause he is a candidate for change.
Obama seems to have the young vote - which is ‘we-want-change’ vote and the ‘we’re sick of the way things are going vote’ but that doesn’t translate to “this is the right man for the job now’ vote - which is me. If you are looking for a bright intelligent great black man than I can’t thing of anyone better than Ford from Tennessee - now that guys a WOW - he’s who those like Oprah should be bring forward for future president.
Oprah apparently said that she wasn’t telling anyone what to think, which was nice, but she and Obama both know what’s really being traded here.
As it is, Oprah, no Oprah nor all of the fatuous campaign slogans emanating from the Clinton campaign can change the fact that Obama is the best hope we have as a nation.
Oprah Winfery’s endorsement of Obama is extremely significant her position is based on her well-earned position as trendsetter and tastemaker.
Well, let’s see, when Obama is by himself at a similar event, about 2,000 people show up. With this Oprah woman, 18,000 show up.
Regardless of the qualifications of Senator Obama, I resent being swept along with the sheep and goats that adore and genuflect before the super celebrity of Oprah.
My only worry is that Oprah devotees would support Obama whilst overlooking the issues.
I hope that people take the initiative to vote for a candidate based on their merits and not because Oprah endorses him.
Hope should and does have a legitimate place in the discussion. I think it is terribly hypocritical for people to rail against Oprah speaking out in the political realm while having no problem with Hillary having her Senate seat solely because her husband cheated on her (which she kept quite about for years and years and years).
Why is the Times’ front page plastered with journalistic love letters to Clinton this morning? It seems peculiarly timed to keep Oprah out of the headlines.
Having Oprah campaigning for Obama is not a good idea.
Barak Obama’s asccomplishments are miniscule. It is pathetic to think that any of the 18,000 who showed up would have shown up for Obama alone. They showed up for Oprah’s celebrity. Obama because Oprah told them to, we are doomed as a society.
Being a Canadian I can’t vote in your election but if I could I don’t think it would be for Obama,even with all the good points. However if Oprah’s endorsement does somehow boost him all the way to the White House it could be worse folks.
American WOMEN of ALL races are responsible for Oprah’s huge success as an entertainer because she has been a powerful advocate for female self-worth. One would think that if she were going to jump into politics at this time, it would be to maximize those efforts by supporting the first highly-qualified woman candidate for the presidency. It’s obviously the race card that has motivated Oprah to get involved at all.
Endorsements by Oprah is just part of that dog and pony show.
Oprah is only ONE opinion. Oprah certainly doesn’t unleash her henchmen to force me to vote for Barack Obama. It will be the very best vote I cast FOR any person in my voting life, to date (just a little more than 30yrs).
Oprah Winfrey as we know is a very rich, influential and powerful woman in the world of media and among women.
In a nation where “celebrities” like Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears get airtime on “news” broadcasts, an endorsement from an Oprah Winfrey has real gravitas. Even more disingenuous are those that disparage Obama because of a lack of experience.
It is a pleasure to see that Ms. Oprah Winfrey has continue to express a great reason for her success by presenting Senator Obama as a man with the wisdom to be president of this country, which needs to reclaim its glory as one with the perspective to lead the world, again.
I really think Oprah does so much for everyone and she shouldn’t be told by some person that she isn’t good enough for her to talk to just because she didn’t make a school in a more local location.
I’m no personal fan of Oprah’s, but if she can do for voting in this country what she has done for reading in this country she’ll have won the admiration of this person, who generally finds her productions boring at best, twice.
First of all, Oprah never had hyperthyroidism.
All Women of all races were already swayed Obama’s way when Oprah came out to support him, Oprah single Handedly gave the entire Nations Women Voters to Obama.
I have two comments. Palin has at least given McCain one of his wishes. Since she was rolled out in the MSM they haven’t said one word about Obama’s speech. They are talking about some of her negatives as well as her positives so that’s the double edged sword Obama has been dealing with for a long time.
McCain’s surprise choice of Sarah Palin is a gamble that picking a solid conservative and non-Washington insider with a bit of a reformist record will outweigh the clear downside: That choosing someone with only two years in high office as back-up president undermines attacks on Obama’s alleged lack of commander-in-chief readiness.
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Read it and watch it here Read it and watch it here. They did find her attacks on Obama for being a ‘community organizer’ quite odd.
The Palin choice, I think, reveals a good bit about the McCain camp’s thoughts about the electorate. The thought that most often follows is my worry that the Obama camp may think too highly of the electorate’s thoughtfulness - but after the success of the convention, those concerns are giving way.
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.
I get the obvious reactionary points re: Palin: no national experience, undercuts the mclame campaign’s (let’s face it) effective narrative re: Obama lacks experience to occupy the white house, obvious pandering to the hillary undecideds etc, etc.
On the plus side for McCain, Palin brings some much-needed “estrogen to the ticket,” as one Obama hand remarked to us.
Pretty staggering, isn’t it?
For me the Palin choice is proof positive that the Republican Party is owned by Big Oil and McCain’s choice is all about pleasing them, despite whatever Palin did to trim the oil industry’s sails in AK.
By contrast, as TPM’s Eric Kleefeld calculates, Obama’s State Senate district had roughly 210,000 people — about 27 times the number Palin repped in lower office. She’ll be forced to face off in a debate against Joe Biden, who’s been in the Senate nearly 20 times as long as Palin has held higher office; Biden is well known to diplomats in world capitals.
Palin is strongly anti-abortion, and only makes an exception only makes an exception on abortion for the life of the woman — excluding even rape and incest.
The task at hand in the upcoming week is to fix the experience issue and introduce Sarah Palin and her record to the American public. One thing that is clear from this, even allowing for argument is that this pick is certainly no worse, apart from experience, than Obama’s pick of Joe Biden, and could be significantly better.
The Palin choice will push some states, such as Missouri, clearly out of the Obama column, leaving more resources for the ten or so battleground states.
I never hear about something like what Palin did that I don’t think of that woman and the child who will always be a child because of a lack of judgment on his mother’s part.
Before McCain selected Palin, I was thinkinig that the democrats had a negative response regardless of his pick.
A week ago, 31% of unaffiliateds said the same about Obama’s selection. Now this is a little surprising, but it appears that McCain has really unified his party around Palin.
The morning DJ on our local Fox radio station was all aglow over Palin this morning saying that all the women he has spoken too (obviously doesn’t get out much) told him that “She’s just like us!”
Oh wait, I do get it.
Sun Prairie, Wisc.: Good afternoon, Mr. When I heard the name of Sarah Palin I thought of William Miller, Geraldine Ferraro, and Jack Kemp — running mates chosen by candidates running against popular presidents, who knew they were almost certain to lose and filled out their tickets with a view toward keeping at least their own party’s base together.
Sarah Palin is a joke. I think her nomination will rally those who used to support Clinton to rally against her and her extreme and anti-feminist views. I know that last week I was planning to vote for Obama but not happy that he didn’t pick Clinton. That is now water under the bridge because I see a big threat to our freedoms and another 4 years of misery with the nomination of McCain and Palin.
FlownOver is right on. Palin should have reflected on her limitations, and for the good of her country (and her young family), recognized her limitations and demurred on McCain’s invitation.
Inappropriate?
Palin is under corrunption investigation in the state of Alaska.
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