Monday, December 10, 2007

Oprah, a Match for Bill Clinton



Nobody’s Opinion: Uh-oh.

Bill Clinton has finally met his match, and her name is Oprah, and you can spell that with a big O, thank you very much. And Oprah was on scintillating chuck wagon fire in Iowa last weekend.

She came onstage to the tune of “Freedom” by Aretha Franklin. Lord have mercy, everyone witnessing the moment was thinking…

“Why doesn’t Oprah run for President?”

Obama who?

Oh yeah. He’s the “We will bring a change to Washington” guy.

Oh…right.

Oprah came onstage with her best-selling secret. She brings major league emotional passion. She convinces you that she cares. Her perfume of hope is hypnotizing.

Her “caring” has made her the richest woman in America, and one of the few entertainers that people trust.

And now the event is being reported as the Bill Clinton vs Oprah Winfrey fight. After all, with this perpetual 24/7 American Idol for President campaigning, the real candidates were getting old real fast.

Bill Clinton, the best speaker/politician in this century, has been blindsided with a huge knockout. If Bill Clinton debated Oprah head to head tomorrow, she would win the debate on her hand gestures alone.

He would be left blubbering. He’d probably go looking for a lassie to message his laddie wounds in Scotland.

The audience was filled with white, middle-class, women just salivating for an excuse not to have to vote for Hillary, just because they liked her husband.

The Clintons were not prepared for this blow…all they came up with was Bill’s bright pink tie, Bill running to display himself in the black churches, and Hillary bringing Chelsea and her mom onstage for some kind of awkward feminist’s photo-op.

In her first political speech, Oprah, if she did nothing else, put forth the much needed example of the fact that Hillary is not a powerful public speaker. Listening to Hillary speeches are about as exciting as having to peel a pound of potatoes.

Giving a good speech is an art. Much like a great musician, you have to have a gift for it. Hillary can make all the clever Soprano video’s she wants, but in the end, the politician has to make the speech. She has to sell herself.

Yes, the politicians have to really sell all those goofy ideals of “multicultural, serve mankind, give us your money and we will deliver it to the world” socialist junk.

Hillary now has a bigger problem, which is her own fault for bringing out the dog. She is actually going to have to beat Obama on her own.

Short of a sexual scandal, it will be interesting to see how they deal with this.

The “Obama is really a Muslim” e-mail put out by Clinton’s organization, didn’t work.

The only way they can attack now is with some kind of stealth in the news.

Oprah will have an illegitimate kid somewhere that she doesn’t claim. The father would have worked at the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld.

Obama’s plane might crash due to an ice storm caused by global warming.

Bill and Hillary will adopt a child from Africa. Oprah then, will adopt a child from Mexico.

Bill and Hillary vs Hillary and Obama on, “Dancing With the Stars.”

This could get fun!

Obama dropped another blow when he suggested Oprah as Vice President, putting visions of an Obama/Oprah ticket into everyone’s head.

Think of it: Vice President Oprah, deciding on a split-tie in the Senate to send American taxpayer’s money to Darfar to rebuild all the schools there, and give all the woman and children free health care, and free food from your hard earned paycheck.

And despite what Oprah is saying, this wasn’t all about Obama.

Oprah cleverly pandered to an issue which has been a thorn in the old velour pants suit to her…her girl’s school in Africa.

“Mmmm…mmm,” she said. “Something should be done about our American schools.” Oprah managing to get a few brownie points in for herself, because even though Oprah built that school in Africa with her own money, many of us here were thinking---Hey Oprah, “What about us? Why not built one here?”

After all, it was the people of America that made Oprah rich.

Just think, if Oprah continues to campaign for Obama, Hillary just might lose her dreams to the White House because of another woman.

Oprah, on the other hand, might get a taste of that political game of power and become hungry for some of her own.

Let the games begin.

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