Oprah Presents Obama As Different Kind of Candidate

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Barack Obama found the perfect booster in Oprah Winfrey. Not only can she fill a football stadium with 30,000 adoring people and put a hammerlock on a news cycle, she specializes in the warm-and-fuzzy uplift that is the very foundation of Obama's candidacy.

This was the pontiff of daytime television bestowing secular sainthood on the golden child of latter-day liberalism. "For there is born to you this day a savior." The Oprah-Obama match is made not quite in heaven, but in a haze of inspirational piety with heavy religious overtones.

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Oprah Presents Obama As Different Kind of Candidate

People had "Oprah for V.P." buttons at this past weekend's rallies. The Queen of All Media surely would never accept such a demotion. But Obama-Winfrey would make a natural t...

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