Last week I posted
a SPINE denigrating the importance of Oprah endorsing Obama and Barbara
Streisand endorsing Hillary.
Well, I was right about Streisand, though it could matter just a bit in Malibu and Santa
Monica. Elsewhere it was a non-event. And
certainly in Iowa or New Hampshire.
But Oprah's appearances in these two states certainly did make a difference...in
the polls. A rally in South
Carolina with Obama and the tv superstar attracted
25,000 people.
I read somewhere that Hillary, Hillary's mom and Chelsea barely brought out 250
people when at the same time Obama and Oprah attracted some 10,000.
Deep down I had always felt that Mrs. Clinton's strategy of purporting to be
the "inevitable" nominee would not work. Inevitability is
haughty. Now it's a real race, and that's an advantage to Barack Obama
who is playing the anti-political candidate. In this, Oprah is a
tremendous asset.
And if everybody knew Streisand's politics she would not only be a nullity in
the campaign but a real detriment.
So, thinking along the same line, Sean Penn has endorsed Dennis Kucinich.
Wow!