Reuters report that talk show host Oprah Winfrey has officially given Barack Obama the official “Oprah’s Favorite Things” stamp of approval during a campaign rally at William Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.
This leads me to ask a question that needs to be asked — do we really need Oprah to give her seal of approval to Obama? The mere fact that she has, gives me pause for concern.
I like Obama, he is from my home state, and appears to be a class act, someone with a good head on his shoulders. What has me concerned is his relative lack of experience in the global political arena.
Oprah urges votes to consider Obama’s “life experience” instead of focusing on the amount of time he has spent “in the hallways of government.”
WTF? Seriously. WTF?
By those standards Mother Theresa would have been the best candidate for President for the last forty years. We are talking about the Presidency here. Life experience can go only so far. Despite what Oprah might want us to believe, past political experience in the national and international arena is pretty damn important for our President to have.
Maybe I should be happy about Oprah’s endorsement. The way things were looking I was going to more than likely vote for Obama anyway, like I stated earlier, I like him.
With the global voting apathy that plagues the United States if Oprah can get the untold masses off their collective asses to vote, well that is something at least.
I personally would rather see a voting enforcement system put in place. On election days all cable and internet access is cutoff. To get it turned back on all a person has to do is go vote. Upon voting they are issued a code and an 800 number that they can call from their home phone to reactivate the internet and cable TV access.
Maybe then we would have a president elected truly by the people, not by a small percentage of the total people who actually voted. And look at it this way, the same segment Oprah is looking to lure in would still go out and vote, after all being able to watch Oprah would be on the line.
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December 10th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
The only president in the last 40 years with a lot of experience in international affairs was the first Bush and he squandered opportunities to greatly improve our global standing. I don’t think previous experience is necessarily a good thing in our current situation. We need change from someone untainted. Personally, I would just like someone who has read a book (and understood it). That would be a nice change from the current president.