Oprah Digs Obama!

Which is more important than the news back in 1970 that Dylan dug Elton.

Oprah Winfrey came out and endorsed Barack Obama for President. I am so happy to hear this news, because it means that the second most powerful woman America is backing the only candidate who can stop the only woman more powerful than she is.

As you may have noted, I dread the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the forty-fourth President of the United States. Not only is another Clinton presidency going to suggest a revolving door of dynastic leadership between the Clintons and the Bushes, but it will also open a lot of wounds left over from the 1990s and stir up some bad blood. Oprah seems to agree. She is backing a candidate who not only promises change, but brings a more energetic attitude towards the Presidency and is ready to give America a fresh start.

Some may guess that Winfrey is supporting Obama because he, like she, is black. That may be, but he's also a Chicagoan, like Winfrey, and she is more familiar with his career than most. While Winfrey may not always be a good judge of literature, she is a good judge of character, and Obama clearly has it.

Some folks may still be skittish of Obama not because of his race but because of only having served eight years in the Illinois state Senate and only two-and-a-half years in the U.S. Senate. Pshaw! As I understand, another Illinoisan was held in suspicion for his scant experience in government - a few years in in the Illinois House of Representatives and two years as a member of the U.S. House - plus the fact that he had little if any formal schooling. What was his name? Oh, yeah - Abraham Lincoln.

And Obama is more Lincolnesque than John Kerry, who, as Jon Stewart pointed out, turned out to be "Lincolnesque without the Lincoln part."

For Hillary's part, she defends herself as an agent of change on the grounds that things were pretty good in this country the last time a Clinton was President. Earth to Hillary: We also didn't have Muslim extremists threatening into fly planes into our skyscrapers and we weren't in an unwinnable war draining our resources. Times have changed. Forget anything from Celine Dion. A more appropriate theme song for Hillary's campaign would be Jethro Tull's "Living In the Past."