Posted on 09/09/2007 10:58:04 AM PDT by STARWISE
Helicopters carrying camera crews buzzed overhead, and tinted glass covered the windows of almost every vehicle entering as Oprah Winfrey welcomed 1,500 guests Saturday evening to her sprawling estate in what was the biggest fundraiser of Sen. Barack Obama's political career.
Obama bumped elbows with comedians Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg. Singer Stevie Wonder, an Obama favorite, performed.
But it was the joint appearance by Obama and Winfrey, who never before has involved herself in politics in such a large way, that generated the greatest star power of the evening.
"I call my home the Promised Land because I get to live Dr. King's dream," Winfrey told her guests, a source inside recalled Winfrey saying. "I haven't been actively engaged before because there hasn't been anything to be actively engaged in. But I am engaged now to make Barack Obama the next president of the United States."
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At times, Winfrey echoed Obama's stump speech. "How many hours you have spent in the halls of Washington is not the issue," she said, according to the source. "I want a man that has good sense."
Winfrey said she never expected to be involved in a presidential campaign. "When you have been called, no one can stand in the way of destiny," she reportedly said.
Once inside, guests, who dined on mini-hamburgers, chicken tenders and corn on the cob, had various levels of access, ranging from seats in the grass on lime-green blankets that had "Obama '08" embroidered on them, to a VIP reception, to a later, much more exclusive dinner.
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Journalists were kept outside.
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This is a very momentous and important alliance. The marquee global reach, gravitas and influence of America's High Priestess cannot be underestimated.
Wonder if Whoopie will now be bringing more politics back to The View.
1500 people of the most well-connected lefties in the world and some of her looney friends in the industry? She has a pretty nice spread in Montecito, 10 acres or so I think. lots of room. Quite the collective gathering.
“I haven’t been actively engaged before because there hasn’t been anything to be actively engaged in.”
Oprah - you may be a TV magnate, but you’re dumb as a stump.
And even dumber than an Obama stump speech!
And, I bet that she’s supporting him because he’s the best candidate. Race has nothing whatever to do with it.
Ha!!
Whoopi on Communism:
“We haven’t given it enough time.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3af7239c5af9.htm
“The marquee global reach, gravitas and influence of America’s High Priestess cannot be underestimated.”
All the celebrity elite seem to be backing him.
I was very disturbed by Obama’s wife’s comments about his “stinkey” appearance upon awakening in the morning.
Obama and his wife are so rich that they are at a remove from everyone else.
Her attempt to connect with the average voter, in this case the democrat voter is a prime example of the elite’s inability to view those out of their class as nothing more than trash.
How absurd for her to connect by giving the masses another foul smelling, bad breathed man presumably scratching his crotch as he ambles to the john.
This is what the elite truly think of the middle and lower classes.
I thought it was a dumb move, too. I mean .. c’mon!
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Selling Obama may be beyond Oprah’s reach
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-fri_phil_0907sep07,1,3587508.column
The Hildabeast is gnashing her teeth.
Go, Oprah!
It Starts.. Oprah draws leads and promotes Americas most traitorous leftists toward the espionage of the democrat criminal enterprise..
Winfrey saying. “I haven’t been actively engaged before because there hasn’t been anything to be actively engaged in.”
what a freekin’, lying, race and victimhood pimpstress Ofra is!
Anybody but Hillary and Bubba back in the White House. While Obama may not be the best choice, he’s certainly better than that old broad and certainly wouldn’t be as damaging. She’s as big a threat to this country as UBL.
He was raised by his white grandparents because
his black sperm doner cut.
What a great menu from Ofra chicken tenders and hamburgers.
McDonalds catered.
At one time, I worked for a super wealth old, old, old family and they were unfailingly civil and didn’t know you were actually human.
All the creepy populist nonsense from the Gores, Kerrys, Obamas, Edwards, and some in the GOP is so much phoney balony.
Wealth by victim hood rather than hard work. Not that Oprah doesn’t work hard, but she get paid for “talking” and “feeling their pain” about victim groups such as women, and “minorities”. Barrack hasn’t said one thing new in his supposedly “new wave” politics. Nothing but Leftist talking points. And he shows a he knows nothing and thinks even less of current world events or history. And his loud-mouthed no-nothing wife is a complete turn-off.
“Oprah - you may be a TV magnate, but you’re dumb as a stump.”
Judging by the number of people that watch Oprah on TV, the American people are not much smarter than a stump.
I meant know-nothing.
LOL, the Hollywood Left and their madcap antics!
Barack should be shallow enough for ‘em...still makes you wonder what Al Gore would do.
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