Oprah Hitting the Campaign Trail!

To be honest with you, I don't think that America is ready for an African American or Female(Clinton)president. However, this is just my personal opinion. I am not very impressed by Oprah Winfrey or anything that she does. I am impressed by people who are first sold out for Jesus and then do good. Spirituality alone does not move me. She can do all the good she wants, but if she is not a blood bought child of the King, she will bust hell wide open, just like anyone else. Her money, fame, and pull cannot buy her a spot in heaven. I applaud Barack Obama on his courage to run. I am not saying that he will not win or that Clinton will not win. All I am saying is that America is not ready for it.

Oprah is Household name. She should have known by now that she is quite above political divide and she cannot, with her big name afford to be politically and perhaps, racially impartial. She is every body's person, blacks, democrats, republicans, whites, chinese, name it! Now showing her partiality racially and poltically by being on Obama's campaign trail smacks of bad judgemnt which is usually very untypical of Oprah. What happened to her sense of precision thinking?

Well Oprah Winfrey is a democrat and she would be supporting a Democratic candidate and more likely she would support a candidate who is African American or black. I am not an American, and even if I were, I would support a Republican candidate. As for whether the ethnicity, it would be the promises and what he stands for that would sway me, although if there was a black candidate for the Republican party who stood for pro-life and traditional values, and no comparative white candidate, I would be sorely disappointed because it would give me the idea that blacks can be for traditional values while whites cannot. I do not like the idea of a celebrity being this much involved as people might vote for Mr. Obama based on her campaign and not on what he stands for.

While it might carry some weight with Oprahs fans, anniepa, it doesn't matter at all to me. Oprah, like most of the rich and powerful, can't possibly know the day-to-day struggles of the poor and working-class average person. In that regard, she would not be able to speak for me. I don't think we will ever have a President who truly understands the need of the common man as long as so much money is involved in getting a new one elected.

i really think that it's just fine. but i really liked her as a host and i will miss her much if she will miss her show because of her campaigning. i really feel that' it's bad that we are going to lose some good host to politics. hopefully that she will just stick to entertaining people so that we will have something to mae us happy when we are watching television.

Honestly, every other American get's to voice their opinion about who they want to win... why not her? What's the point of having money and influence if you don't use it. For a long time I thought she had disconnected herself from being African American but in recent years I've come to appreciate her position and what she had to do to get to where she got. Most intelligent voters however, will not choose Obama because Oprah said so... so I see no harm in it. She took no vow of impartiality. I personally, can't vote for him because I don't think the US is ready and I fear for his life should he win. I like him, but I don't want a black man to take the fall for decades of bs politics that have put us at the brink of self destructing. But it's nice to see Oprah getting a little more vocal and not walking the tight rope as much as she used to. And I don't know why anyone would say because she helps little girls in Africa she should not take part in American Politics? Cause that's where her heart is...yeah... but this is where she was born and raised and where she lives and pays taxes on her billions. She helps people here too by the way :) Wow, I almost sound like a fan. I never watch the show unless my mom records one that she deems is a "must see"-lol. But for women like me, she represents the possibility of greatness.

I'm not a fan of Oprah. And I think she'll make the campaign trail more of a circus than it already is. However, I do like Obama, and Oprah's presence may help him gain votes. If that happens, that's a pro to balance the cons.

Oprah is not running for any kind of office she is simply supporting the candidate she believes in. Many celebrities do it all the time. Her supporting Obama has no affect on the presidential race at all. In the end people will vote for whoever they think will be the best leader regardless of what Oprah or any other celebrity does to raise money and awareness about a specific candidate.

My mother-in-law said that with Oprah's heart in Africa how can she vote for someone in the United States? I think it's a bad idea because you should not show your favoritism when you are a celebrity.