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What do you think the chances are that Oprah's endorsement of Obama is not racially motivated? I suppose it's possible that it's not, but it sure seems fishy doesn't it?

The fact of the matter is that I used to have a measure of respect of Oprah, but no longer. She knows how much power she wields with her viewers, and she has made a conscious choice to use that power and influence to try to cause her legions of followers to vote for Obama. This is quite a difference from a movie star, or some other such person, who influence very few people enough to get them to change their votes. Oprah has an empire centered around her ability to get people to do whatever she tells them to do. She says to read a book, and they spend money to buy the book, and they all read it, she says someone can be trusted, and they all trust that person. What she is doing now is actually reprehensible, and it doesn't matter who she is endorsing.

OK, so here's how I see it. A very large portion of Oprah's audience are women, which makes perfect sense given the type of issues she often addresses on her show, and the format of her show, and other parts of her empire. Also, quite a few of these women are not politically astute, that is to say, they don't care about politics, and often don't bother to vote. The big thing that Oprah offers by entering the political arena is that when she tells her minions to vote, they will, the same way they rush to do her bidding on all other things. And they will certainly vote for whomever she instructs them to.

To be clear, and hopefully avoid some accusations, I'm not saying that these women are stupid, or that they are not able to think for themselves. In fact, I'm sure that a vast majority of them are intelligent women who are more than capable of coming to their own conclusions, unfortunately, they don't. They are so accustomed to letting Oprah tell them what to do, and what to think, that they will have no problem following along when she talks about Mr. B. Hussein Obama.

I'm not questioning that Oprah thinks that Obama would be the best choice for President, though I do have some questions as to whether or not she's being honest with herself about why she thinks that, but that doesn't give her the right to order her hoards of faithful followers to join in his campaign and elect him to office.

Oprah says that she believes that Obama has a bold new vision for America, but that's not really true. His vision may be fairly bold, but it's not really new. People of his political stripe have been trying to turn the USA into a weak, marginalized, Communist state for decades. As scary as this is to say, Hillary's vision for America is actually probably a little less frightening than Obama's. At least in Hillary's quest for personal power, she wants to hold onto the might of the USA to assure her own power in the world. I'm not sure Obama's that savvy.

I know that so far I have spent most of my time on the Republican side of things, and there is a very good reason for that. Since I am a Republican, I am trying to decide for myself who is the one to vote for to be the Republican nominee, and so that is what I have been writing about, but sometimes things come up on the Democratic side that I don't feel I can ignore, and besides, the Primaries will be over soon, and there will be two people running in the major parties, and then I'm sure I'll have a lot to say about the Democrats. Of course, if Giuliani gets the nod, you can follow my quest to find a good third party candidate to vote for in the General election.

It is my opinion that celebrities should keep their mouths shut, and realize that there is no reason for us to care what they say about the people running for political office, or the issues of the day, but when they are of the stature of Oprah, it goes double.