The Oprah Road Show

Oprah supporting Obama Bin Laden becuase he is not white is almost racist. We can not prove this ,...but deep inside its the only reason she is supporting him. I guess if he does become president white people need to fork over some money to the blacks for reparations, lol!

Common standards used to assess professional competence would mean that Dick Cheney should have been a great VP instead of the disaster he has been. And then there is great experience of Rumsfeld which produced a dismal Sec of Defense. The executive experience as a governor and familial experience with a recent President gave us our current failed President.

We've had another lawyer from Illinois who served in the Illinois legislature before becoming President. Some people might say he wasn't professionally qualified to be President but in most historical accountings he is considered our greatest President.

Chicago is a great city and it one of the most effective cities in the country. Applying Chicago standards certainly is at least as good as what we got with Texas standards.

I'm not sure exactly what a utopian-savior President is but I'm pretty clear that we don't have one now. We arn't using common standards to assess the professional competence of a President because it isn't a common job with specified professional standards. We arn't hiring a manager we are electing a leader and we need one with a vision for the future.

By the way, Oprah isn't just a celebrity she has built one of the most successful businesses in the country.

Common standards used to assess professional competence

Do we accept Barack Obama as president on the authority of Oprah, the celebrity talk show host? Expertise not in government but entertainment, she is recognized for her talk show and conglomerate--entertainer, producer, and business woman.

Barack is vying for US president, chief government executive and supreme military commander, with legislative but no recognized executive or military qualifications; he is not running for President and Celebrity-in-Chief of the United States of Entertainment.

Oprah speaks personally--a friend and fundraiser for Obama; three years known and three million dollars raised.

Oprah encourages us to substitute Barack's life experience for professional qualifications; character, vision, wisdom, and record as community organizer; IL and US senator suffice. She knows he "is the one," timely and ordained for America.

But does she divine and apply the same hiring standard to pilots, doctors, lawyers, and teachers; unnecessary are professional qualifications and competence, but likable people with life experience suffice? Working in a soup kitchen, voting on a referendum, supporting the local incumbent--it proves competent the FA-18 fighter pilot, heart surgeon, criminal defense lawyer, physics professor, structural engineer...and the next US president!

But she may reply, "That's how people are hired in Chicago; the standard is right for America too!"

Oprah generates a fictitious idealized Utopian savior-president image and identifies it with America; she projects Barack Obama into this image and recommends him as that image; she asks Americans substitute her judgment of Barack's so-called wisdom for standard professional credentials; she attempts to persuade America to accept her judgment in place of reason.

Common standards used to assess professional competence, especially with respect to the powers and duties of the US president, apply to Barack Obama no less than to any; projecting Barack Obama into a fictitious presidential image and recommending him based on it is sophistry.

I find it almost amusing that anyone would suggest that Obama isn't qualified to be President and is only supported by Oprah because he is black. The first election I could vote was for John F. Kennedy. Obama is the most like Kennedy of any Presidential candidate I have seen in all my years of voting and has as much if not more experience than Kennedy. He also has foreign policy advisors like Zbigniew Brezinski who with President Carter negotiated the only successful peace agreement in the Middle East. Obama isn't weak on foreign policy. He is our best hope to restore America's place in the world. As Kennedy went to Berlin and and gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, so I believe Obama has the potential to go to the Middle East and Asia and have a similar impact. Oprah recognizes him for the person he is, not just because he is black. By the way I'm a 67 year old white man and I don't see that people with my skin tone have been doing such a bang up job lately. Since we've never had anything but a white man as President don't give me the bs about voting for the most qualified person. That has rarely if ever happened in our history. Besides the definition of what makes one "most qualified" will be different for almost every voter. PS- enjoy seeing you on Keith Olbermann's show on MSNBC.

I am Ashamed of you Oprah. You are a woman first. You have never endorsed anyone before. Obama has never ran anything let alone a country.I may Quit watching your show!!You have too much influence to back him just because he is black!!!

Oprah, is as racist as anyone. She should she is a woman first. She has not endorced anyone before.Obama has never ran anything let alone a Country. I am ashamed of you Oprah!!!

"Oprah's weekend may be a poor guide to the caucus results in early January."

I believe they are. In more contentious states like New Hampshire and South Carolina, in turnout was was 28,000 and 30,000 respectively. Any candidate would love to have Oprah.

"Oprah's weekend may be a poor guide to the caucus results in early January."

I believe they are. In more contentious states like New Hampshire and South Carolina, in turnout was was 28,000 and 30,000 respectively. Any candidate would love to have Oprah.

I really hate this election I mean we have a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints (ie. Mormon) an African American (ie. Black) and a Woman. So now we have everyone saying the Mormons are voting Romney the Blacks are voting Obama and the Woman are voting Hillary. This causes a major error in the whole political system, the fact that people should be doing there research and voting for candidates with similar ideas as themselves. I fear that we are going to end up with a president the majority doesn't want because the ignorant are going to vote ignorant.

You're kidding me...right? Did you notice how easily Oprah changed her accent while visiting the state of SC? I did. Now, watch her show today and see how she sounds. She's a joke...and always had been. She's just a shining example of how stupid we as Americans really are. That was so cheezy...and political, but what else would we expect from Oprah? America...the land of the sheep!

Hillarious! Isn't it interesting how Oprah's accent changed while in S.C.?
What a joke...
And honestly, what does it say about us as people, if we cannot make our own decisions. Who is this woman? What makes her opinion any different than mine? That's easy...NOTHING! We (Americans) are like little sheep...

Richard

You are one of the more perceptive and objective commentators on the scene. I appreciate your ability to go beyond the surface to dig out the real meaning of the event -- the organizational strength of the Obama team. ClearelHis das

Presently I see Mr. Obama nearly less ready to become president as Bush was, when he ran initially Mr. Obama is seeking a Karl Rove., apparently Oprah is the force he seeks to become viable When he needs help though in foreign Affairs I don't see the background developed that Clinton , Biden, or Richardson has, I feel 10 years experience and networking you got a great leader but not now. He has a good start but not the contracts to become a leader with enough leadership or management weight to carry on the war, only win a couple of skimishes. Oprrah has the bucks to overwhelm most anyone but she doesn't have the intellect to utilize her millions to the fullest extent, example her leadership school. Sometimes rushing to judgement with your heart is just as stupid as rushing to a judgement due to emotions or age.