If Oprah can turn a mustached redneck gasbag like “Doctor” Phil McGraw (no, I won’t link to him. You know who he is) into a multi-million dollar media enterprise, it should be a cakewalk for her to turn an intelligent, literate, attractive, and qualified man into the President. I think we’re going to hear a lot more about this sort of thing from the Left Coast.
The most powerful woman in show business celebrated her favorite candidate with 1,500 guests at her palatial estate in this coastal enclave south of Santa Barbara. Tickets to the sold-out private event went for $2,300 apiece, keeping them within campaign finance limits.
Billary still has a long way to go to convince California that she’s a viable candidate. And for the home-state favorite Frederick of Hollywood, this race was over before he even grudgingly admitted that he is in it. Maybe he and Walnuts McCain can start a bridge club or go on a tropical cruise or whatever it is that retirees do after their dementia has advanced far enough that they can no longer make useful contributions to society. At this point I think the race is Obama’s to lose.
You forgot to add “articulate and clean.”
also “not obviously an alcoholic or a coke-head, and still married to his first wife.” Obama has lots of things going for him- but Oprah is a king-maker. And without the Fairness Doctrine, she can put his black ass on TV every day if she wants to, in front of a huge audience of pliant and suggestible housewives. She could put him on the cover of her magazine. She could have him jump up and down on the couch and make fun of Tom Cruise.
Unless a candidate is totally vile (think Tancredo), the simplest equation of politics is: Exposure = Votes. And Oprah is the most powerful exposure machine in the world.
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