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Obama’s Oprah Problem: Like viewers, voters want honesty
The National Review ^ | May 18, 2012 | Lee Habeeb

Posted on 05/20/2012 11:34:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 05/20/2012 11:34:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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meh


3 posted on 05/20/2012 11:47:32 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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Oh Noes! poor rich Okrah!


4 posted on 05/20/2012 11:59:33 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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I think we should remember that black men got the right to vote some years before women as a whole. Kinds puts competing claims about oppression in a different light.


5 posted on 05/21/2012 12:05:13 AM PDT by Amberdawn
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In reality, this had nothing to do with Oprah.

Let’s see. In one article, Hillary gets pushed up, Obama gets shoved down, Ellen degenerate gets a sort of an OK because she didn’t try to convince people she was straight and some nice words about Ronnie.

Off the top of my head?

The new talking points are out. Time to cut the floor out of the Bamster. Look for a lot of people saying nice things about Hillary and not so nice things about Obama.

He’s being sent to the showers, but he doesn’t know it yet.


6 posted on 05/21/2012 12:07:37 AM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. A good read.

7 posted on 05/21/2012 12:24:00 AM PDT by Daaave ("The ship will self-destruct in t-minus, ten minutes.")
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It was the day Oprah announced she was backing the African-American candidate, then-senator Barack Obama, over the highly qualified and experienced woman candidate, then-senator Hillary Clinton.

I know the author is trying to make a point but isn’t this stretching the truth a bit. What was Hillary experienced at doing other than screaming at the White House staff. Granted she was more experienced than Obama but so was the mayor of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

8 posted on 05/21/2012 12:28:37 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Not to mention his rivals’ VP nominee, you know, that lady, uh, whats-her-name, used to be a governor somewhere, that went back to obscurity once the 2008 campaign was over. Payton? Parton? Petrowski?


9 posted on 05/21/2012 12:36:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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Compared to Obama,, Hillary is highly qualified. Just not compared to nearly any other presidential candidate though.


10 posted on 05/21/2012 12:55:48 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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If a national figure like Oprah can be brought down by her misjudgement, why can’t Obama? Oprah’s experience may turn out to be Obama’s canary in the mineshaft.


11 posted on 05/21/2012 12:56:16 AM PDT by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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That’s the gist of the article.


12 posted on 05/21/2012 12:57:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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Compared to Obama just about anyone is highly qualified.


13 posted on 05/21/2012 1:11:31 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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The question isn't why Oprah fell, but why she was popular in the first place.
14 posted on 05/21/2012 1:13:12 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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If you have to ask that question, you probably wouldn’t want to know the answer.


15 posted on 05/21/2012 1:30:42 AM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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Can we dare to hope this is an early sign of the “waking up” of America?
Pray for spiritual revival!


16 posted on 05/21/2012 2:47:08 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (searching for something meaningfull to say)
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Her backing that POS in the White House was a given. On the other hand, maybe folks actually listened to her show and found out it just sucked or they just got tired of it.


17 posted on 05/21/2012 3:17:36 AM PDT by maddog55 (OBAMA: Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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The new talking points are out. Time to cut the floor out of the Bamster. Look for a lot of people saying nice things about Hillary and not so nice things about Obama.

He’s being sent to the showers, but he doesn’t know it yet.


I agree, the tea leaves have been read, but who will be the savior that arrives at the DNC Convention? In some ways Hillary is to obvious, probably it.


18 posted on 05/21/2012 3:40:40 AM PDT by The Working Man
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The article keeps saying that we are confused by Nobama'a and Orka's double speak.

There is no confusion.

Nobama and his minions are LIARS!

19 posted on 05/21/2012 3:51:25 AM PDT by Tolkien (Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
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I think Oprah’s appeal was her ability to transcend the bluntness of race. She talked about more topics that connected with her largely female audience. She connected with their everyday problems.

She threw all this in the trash when she endorsed this faker over a woman, albeit tarnished by liberalism, still had more widespread appeal for women than did Hussein.

In effect, she traded her power to connect with the common woman for a race card, plain and simple.


20 posted on 05/21/2012 3:54:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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