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Oprah gained my respect with this speech at her most visit to the campaign trail for Barack Obama. A couple of months back Oprah received a lot of push back from her viewers who felt that she was betraying women and the people who supported her show by not endorsing Hilary Clinton. Many felt that as a women who has gain much of her popularity from a predominately base of women, more particularly white women, that she should automatically endorse Clinton.

This video answers all of those questions and what she thinks about what people have to say about her choice to endorse Obama. You can’t help but respect this type of response. I think she even became a long shot at getting her hood pass back when she hit them with “Don’t play me small.” If the N-word had not been outlawed, I think it would have made a nice punctuation at the end of that sentence.

Spotted at Sandra Rose

Maybe it is a mere coincidence that both times that Hilary Clinton has cried on the campaign trail it is the day before election day. It could be a coincidence, but I doubt it. While at a campaign stop at Yale University yesterday, Hilary again shed some tears.

I understand that women are emotional and crying is not unheard of, but I find I would find it insulting if I was a female and she played this card to manipulate women before election day. Women are the people she was able to sway the last time she cried and is the same base of people she is going after with the bout of crying.

If she is truly that emotional and cries so easily, will she do the same thing when she faces the adversity and tough decisions associated with the presidency? That makes me nervous.

Also, if you are in one of the 24 states that have a primary or caucus today, make sure you get out and vote. You have no reason to complain afterwards if you don’t do your part to get the best person elected. Even if you think it is a lost cause, still get out there and vote. Even in states that are supposedly decided, strange things have happened!

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Not that the polls have been the most accurate measuring sticks this primary season, it is still worth noting that in the latest Rueters/C-Span poll, Barack Obama has taken a 2 Point lead over Hilary Clinton in California. This is significant because just a few weeks ago, Clinton was ahead by double digits.

In California, Obama gained two points on Clinton overnight to lead 46 percent to 40 percent, with a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points. Obama wiped out a 1-point Clinton advantage in Missouri to take a 47 percent to 42 percent lead, with a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

“The momentum is with Obama,” said pollster John Zogby. “If this trend continues it could be a very big night for him.”

New Hampshire taught us not to get too excited by what these polls predict, but Tuesday is going to be a huge day. I am sure Bill Clinton couldn’t sleep last night as he prepared some ridiculous comments for today that he will apologize for tomorrow and say he was misunderstood. If you are in one of the 22 states involved in Super Tuesday, make sure you get out and have your vote count. Probably for the first time ever, every vote will count.

It is now Charles Rangel’sturn to support the Clinton’s and take a shot at Obama as he calls Obama’s remarks “absolutely stupid” when referring to Barack’s comments about Hilary saying that President Lyndon Johnson was more instrumental in Civil Rights than Martin Luther King Jr. Rangel says:

“But there is nothing that Hillary Clinton has said that baffles me. I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and the Voting Rights Act,” said Rangel. “But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid. It’s absolutely dumb to infer that Doctor King, alone, passed the legislation and signed it into law.”

Rangel also implied that Obama’s admission of prior drug use in his autobiography may have had a financial motive: “I assume that the book was not written for political purposes. It was honest….It was a big mistake for him to have done it [used drugs.] For him to be honest enough to write about it, I guess he thought it might sell books.”

What I find most amazing about his comments is that if you heard them live, it did sound as if Hilary implied that Lyndon Johnson was the reason for the Civil Rights Act. There would have not been a bill to sign had the years of pain and suffering led by MLK had not been endured. Signing the bill is the easy part. So a comparison of the two is ridiculous. So I understand supporting your candidate, but none of us should throw rational thinking out the window and change words to make them different than what was said.

Not sure what the goal of Rangel, like Robert Johnson, bringing up Obama’s admitted drug use is. He is not denying it and anyone that believes that they are electing a person to president with no pass history is fooling themselves. No matter what they say or their ads portray, they all have a history. Most of which includes drug use although they do not admit. And if Obama did it to sell books, then one hell of a job because he sold a lot of them!

Who’s next to slam Obama?

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With the New Hampshire and Iowa primaries only a month away, according to a recent ABC News Poll, Barack Obama is narrowing the gap between himself and Hilary Clinton. The latest number show only a 6% difference among potential voters.

One of the things that may be helping Obama is the support and recent tour with Oprah Winfrey. Oprah is a huge supporter of Obama and their event planned for South Carolina next week had to be moved from the 18,000 basketball auditorium, to the the 80,000 seat football coliseum at the University of South Carolina because event organizers ran out of free tickets less than two days after they became available. Not sure if they will pack the place, but it sure will be a site to see!

Things should get crazy with advertising between Obama and Clinton very soon. With $75 Million raised by Obama and $63 million raised by Clinton, we will all soon see much more of them both then we could ever have imagined.

On a note that I find kind of shocking, African-American voters are more in favor of Clinton than Obama with the Congressional Black Caucus members split 15-12 in their support. Some believe this is because most believe Clinton stands a better chance of winning a general election than Obama. My thought is asking someone what they think on the street and then trusting them to do the same thing in the voting booth is two different things.

Either way a long and interesting race is becoming tighter race with John Edwards still lurking also. We shall see is Oprah’s midas touch for everything else has the same effect in a Presidential race.

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