Star Power

I'm tired of seeing celebrities endorse candidates. Does Oprah have political science degree? Has she ever worked on Capitol Hill? I don't vote for candidates who use celebrities. I don't support Obama anymore.

Would Oprah have endorsed Senator Obama if he were a white man? She has never endorsed any candidate before, nor has she ever been political publicly, therefore is just a coincidence that her first endorsement if for a a black candidate?
If the answer is "no" to either of these questions, her endorsement just boils down to race.

I find it so sad that the people of the United States will elect someone to the Presidence just because Oprah Winfrey thought he was great! When did the country elect Oprah Winfrey, queen of the US? Granted she is a great woman who has helped a lot of people but I do not drop to my knees when she speaks and do not consider the be all and end all authority on policis and the candidates. She once stated she would back Hillary Clinton and now she has dropped that for a black man. Racism abounds.

Obama doesn't have enough experience to be running for President. If anybody should run for president, it should be Hilary Clinton because she's already spent 8 years in the White House. She's got a lot of experience there, and Bill is behind her and that could never be a bad thing.

Oprah, we all know what you're trying to do, and for everybody's sake, I hope it doesn't work. You need to stick to what you know and that is your talk show and your magazine. You should NOT be in the political arena because you have average intelligence like most of the rest of us, meaning there is nothing special about your endorsement of your black friend Obama. That makes me wonder...who's the racist now?

I haven't seen 1/10th of the skepticism from Chuck Norris's endorsement of Huckabee as I see from the Oprah Obama endorsement. That just proves my point. Chuck Norris is an international figure who has also reached an iconic status. Please explain to me why there hasn't been ANYONE claiming that Chuck is supporting Huckabee because he is a white man or he is a former christian televangelist, or he is from arkansas. Why can you just accept the fact that Chuck Norris just believes in what Huckabee stands for and yet you have a problem with Oprah? You are uncomfortable with a black woman supporting a black man because of your own issues with race and your own fickle baseless assumptions about what Oprah stands for. Besides race, Obama and Oprah have ONE THING in common. The vast majority of their followers are white. They both relate to the majority of Americans because although they value their cultural roots they relate to every American. You see two black people and automatically think it is just about race when their message is about a new America. Shame on you.

I would have voted for Obama until Oprah went on tour. What would a billionaire possibly have in common with my needs or anyone elses. She is out of touch. Looks like I am now back with Hilary.

Personally I wish Oprah would not have gotten behind Obama. He does not speak in specifics. He tells me nothing about what he is going to do about the health care system in this country. People need reliable and affordable health care. And I don't like him speaking for me..."The American people want..." He doesn't know what I want? I want experience in the white house not a fresh face. Tell me what you plan on doing...and stop skirting around the issues. Edwards is the same way. At least HIllary can tell you exactly what she is going to do. She wants to help people get affordable health care....yet no body trusts her. But, she has a plan, she has contacts, he has an intelligent ally in her husband who when in office balanced the buget and is not a war monger.....Iraq is only a war for profit for oil people and big corporations like Halliburton. I want to see better schools, good jobs, affordable health care. I am sick of not being able to trust my government or any corporation filled with people trying to rip me off. I want a president for the people....the people of the USA. American people are mostly educated people...we are not stupid.. We know a war for profit when we see one. We know a president who is out for the profits of his cronies and lobbying friends...we know Bush allowed out-sourcing and off shoring so corporations would get yet another tax break. When is the average American republican who is losing his job to out-sourcing, off-shoring and illegals going to see the light....and Christians are the worse of the lot... They are going to vote according to religous belefs, against gays, against pro-choice.....yet allowing their countries economy to fail. People are living on the edge now...four more years of Republicans and the middle class will be no more... We'll all be in poverty or homeless without even a car to live. Now people can't even afford their car payment. But, Republicans want the average Joe to be patriotic and have their heads buried into religious sand...they only want you to see and hear what will serve them best....war and oil. They use homosexuals and women's rights as scrapgoats to side track you from the "serious" issues that are affecting your every day life....but people just can't see this.

Oprah and Barack set African Americans back so far with their ridiculous rehearsed and stereotyped show in both Iowa and South Carolina. Let me ask you this----or should I say axe? Why did both Oprah and Barack start talking like southern preachers in their speeches? Why all of a sudden, did two of the wealthiest Black Americans--who sound very polished each and every day, change their speech? i read another comment from a reader that said Oprah sounded like a character from the Color Purple. I agreed totally and was sooooo offended by it that both Oprah and Barack lost me as a supporter. I am a democrat and was wavering between Barack and Hillary. For Barack and Oprah to make this a "black" v "white" issue shows only one thing to me period----he doesn't believe in his own talent and experience that he has to be cheap and scream "look at me I'm black". No thank you--you're as black as your cousin Dick Cheney!!!

Th only reason all those people showed up in Iowa and SC is because of Oprah, not Obama. And the only reason she has endorsed him is because he is black.

If anyone thinks that he will change anything for the "poor blacks" in the US as he says he will, well... I have some swampland I want to sell them. This only shows his inexperience in national politics. Being a State Legislator only qualifies you to vote on budgets and getting the streets clean in your constituency, not to run the country..