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"I Heard That" -- Oprah Campaigns for Obama

by Rochelle Metcalfe via Beyond Chron
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 : Run, Obama, Run ... Run with him, Oprah! Exactly what Oprah Winfrey, Queen of the highest-rated day time talk show in television history, did last weekend in a kickoff 3-stop tour with Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) that began in Iowa, Saturday; Sunday stops in South Carolina and New Hampshire! The richest African American of the 20th Century, and the world’s only Black billionaire, and most influential woman in the world, Winfrey has embraced Obama’s run for the White House! Stepping out of the “pew” declared this is the first time she has publicly made such an endorsement! The tour was a huge success.
Winfrey wanted women to be exposed to the audacious Black Senator who dared to run for the White House!

This phenomenal woman is putting her power behind the Senator in hopes women of all political persuasion and color will support him as well; it's reported her audience is 75% female. White women love her!

Watched C-SPAN coverage in Iowa, a huge turnout of White folks (few Blacks live in the state) there to see Winfrey! Listened about 20 minutes, turned it off; at the time Obama was, in my estimation, too flat, same rhetoric - no fire in his belly!!! But then a speech should not make the man, for he’s more than about grand standing!

Let’s not fool ourselves. Crowds came out to see Winfrey, but the tour helped Obama. She became involved because, like many of us, she’s “tired of politics as usual,” urged don’t believe the hype when it's brought up that Obama is not experienced enough to be in the White House! She expressed at the mike “experience in the hallways of government isn’t as important to me as experience on the pathway of life!” I Heard That!

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