Did Oprah make Obama-mania with her billions of dollars? Who is fueling this Political Hulk?

[liberalnurse]

Obama has the most wickedly powerful campaign machine in history. Even more poweful than some countries. If we don't investigate the mogul powers behind Obama-mania they will control him, control us.

How can a fist-term U.S Senator who has only completed 3 years of his term evolve into the Political Hulk? I bet Chris Dodd, John Edwards and Joe Biden want to know too.

http://www2.oprah.com/omagazine/200411/omag_200411_ocut.jhtml

When did she organize his campaign? How many operatives did she hire under one of her many corporate names? We all know she did this but it's never discussed.

Millions and millions of dollars were soaked into the making of his Campaign before he announced and filed....Thus FEC knows or requires nothing.

At least we know she started in November o4. She just as much told us this in her O Magazine.

http://www2.oprah.com/omagazine/200411/omag_200411_ocut...

Listen:

http://www2.oprah.com/omagazine/omag_ocut_flash.jhtml?issue=200411

OPRAH'S CUT WITH BARACK OBAMA

He electrified the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He's prompted cries of "first black president". He's Barack Obama, the United States Senator from Illinois. Surrounded by his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters, he takes a rare break from his 16-hour workday to sit down with Oprah at his Chicago home.

"I don't consider myself political and I seldom interview politicians. So when I decided to talk with you , people around me were like, 'What's happened to you?' I said, 'I think this is beyond and above politics.' It feels like something new." — Oprah

[Horse with no Name]

1. I read a pretty good piece here not long ago

that was talking about Obama's million dollar parties that he gave early in his career when he didn't have any obvious funding for them.
It goes back much further than Oprah.
If I can find the piece, I will post it.

[elixir2]

33. Let us know when you find the article, I'm very interested.

[movonne]

44. Maybe this is the Hillary machine at work...Which has the most

power the Hillary machine or the Oprah machine..

[democrat_nanny]

57. Of course! It's the Hillary Machine!!!

Damnit! Why didn't we see this before? Of course it's the Clinton's fault that it looks like Oprah violated FCC rules and used her daily TV program for political advertising all while dumping money into a campaign. Yeah, Bill Clinton seduced Oprah while James Carville infiltrated her staff and convinced them that this was a good idea so that Obama could come on like a wildfire and snatch the Democratic nomination out of Hillary's hands at the last minute because obviously....

...wait, why is it again that the "Hillary machine" would be at work creating Oprah's support for Obama?

you make no sense!

[Avalux]

2. What are you talking about? I think you need one of these:

:tinfoilhat:

[Straight Shooter]

3. Oprah has pi**ed in everyone's lemonade, and smiling as she hands us the glass.

"Who, me? Insinuate myself into politics? I wouldn't do something like that."

For those who don't know the reference, get the movie The Color Purple. It's a classic scene.

[LibraLiz1973]

27. Oprah is just a person. She is using her fame and her platform to promote & sway

people to vote for Obama.

I don't care for it, but, whatever.

[liberalnurse]

37. Beautiful picture of John and Elizabeth Edwards.

Did you take it? I've not seen that one.

[LibraLiz1973]

49. No. I believe it was taken in Delaware.

I actually picked it up from here somewhere

[bunnies]

4. Yes.

Obama is a cyborg built and controlled by Oprah.

[jakem]

5. "wickedly powerful"?!

oh brother...

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[Forkboy]

7. You're scaring me more than what you posted.

[mtnsnake]

8. As always, very revealing. Thanks for posting this!

:thumbsup:

Funny cartoon, btw!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. She's the high priestess.

Our cult controls the media.

[AZBlue]

10. Ah...so now we know what happened to the pile of sh*t referenced in your cartoon.

It's been posted here.
:wtf:

[zulchzulu]

11. ROFL: "most wickedly powerful campaign machine in history"

I've seen tinfoil hat theories before, but this indeed is a new low. Wow.

It's Oprah's fault! :rofl:

[rurallib]

17. Where is my money, Oprah?

I am from Iowa and helped the Obama kids here make connections. So where is my money?
And George Soros probably owes me some also for being a whacked out liberal.

[madrchsod]

34. it`s "chicago style"!

[Blue_Roses]

12. Oprah doesn't go in the booth with everyone and pull the lever for them

Oprah does nothing to influence my political decision--and I've been watching her since day one. This is something that started when Obama gave the keynote speech for Kerry in '04. I remember Meredith Vierra, was on the View at the time and she responded to the charisma of Obama and she had never heard of him before that time.

[liberalnurse]

35. The promotional machine does....

Like a high profile movie promotion makes us go into the movie theaters.

[RaleighNCDUer]

41. Oh, yeah. I've been forced to see so many movies by the

slick advertising.

:eyes:

You know, smart moviegoers pay their $10 based on more than the trailers - there's reviews, previous films by the same people, word of mouth...

Going only on the advertising is rather like choosing a candidate based only on that one candidate's website. Make your decision only on that, you're sure to be disappointed.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

50. amen and more than half of the peeps here on DU need to see 'The Century of the Self".....

nad maybe just maybe they will have a clue

[blogslut]

13. millions of individual donors just like me

Let's put it this way. Hillary gets max donations from the few. Barack gets millions of small donations from the many.

The cool part is I can send $25.00 a month and keep doing so all year.

[liberalnurse]

21. Your drinking the kool-aide instead of looking into the creation.

Nickle-dime donors did not create this monster campaign. He started out on day one with the best website design since Microsoft was launched. His Campaign store has luggage, clothing designed for the Season.....Yea, sure............This 3-year Junior Senator, a Civil Servant at that; Do you believe he got that Star-Wars website and collective of storm troopers by having many Democratic Fundraisers where they might have cocktail weenies and beer for snacks, a Silent Auction of "Audacity of Hope" and a picture of Obama?

No.....I don't believe that. I hope everyone here starts to take an honest look to ask the questions and to peel away at the Onion layers.

Let's think and be responsible voters and advocates.

[blogslut]

26. Honey, I teach people to make websites

A good design is not that expensive if you know how to get it and his tech team is full of passionate geeks who are glad to work for him for free. His site was tight long before Oprah entered the picture.

[liberalnurse]

40. She has been on the scene since at least November 04.

The link is provided in the OP Title Thread.

[HeraldSquare212]

32. So far, you've offered speculation. Feel free to come back to us when you have more.

This is along the lines of the Hank Greenberg-Bill Clinton conspiracy.

[smalll]

53. Does his campaign really have "luggage, clothing designed for" each season?

(I'm a Hillarite by the way, this is not a hostile question.) You may be on to something. Maybe it was Oprah alone, or maybe it was a consortium of well-heeled backers from early on. One only has to look at the history of the last century to see that a meteoric rise out of nowhere of a "charismatic" caesarist leader is generally made possible by key monetary support early on from rich patrons in the higher reaches of the capitalist classes.

[HeraldSquare212]

15. I am. and hundreds of thousands like me. Thanks for the compliment!

[H2O Man]

19. "

n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

16. I love how people think there's some nefarious cabal of comic book supervillains

behind Obama's ascendancy. I think that's hilarious. :rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

18. Oprah can give him

$4,600. Just like anybody else. She's not funding his campaign.

[liberalnurse]

30. But did she give birth to his campaign?

Did she feed it, design it, house it, mold it and fund it? I want to know.

Did Oprah write this script? His campaign mirrors a huge movie trailer production, titled, "Hope and Change" starring Denzel Washington as the fresh, new Junior U.S Senator from Illinois who rally's America with his preacher sermon style of Brother Justin in the HBO Series, Carnivale.

Review: 3- Thumbs Up :thumbsup: :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Hypnotic performance, limited substance, repetitive rhetoric, family oriented, bring Kleenex.

[MonkeyFunk]

36. No

[jackson_dem]

20. Good question. Four years ago he was a nobody

He lucked into winning a primary he was going to lose until a scandal took out the front runner. Four years prior to that he lost 61-31 in a House race. Now he is the greatest politician ever? Please...It isn't Oprah. It is the corporations and their propaganda arm known as the msm.

[snappyturtle]

48. I knew Sen. Obama had a future after hearing his speech at the

2004 convention....I believe that speech has been long remembered by many people. I suppose he's had some luck along the way too. Many people who have risen to the top admit to being in the right place at the right time. After seven agonizing years with * the memory of his message from '04 rose to the top for me. I'm not aware of corporate backing.

[AX10]

22. K/R

I know of many who are not happy with her involvement.
I never liked her and I never will.

[tabatha]

23. All campaingn money has to be declared to the Feds.

Why don't you look up those records and get some real data instead of some wild imaginings.

[liberalnurse]

38. Correct....I'm wanting to look at the pre-campaign foundation.

The power within his campaign exceeds what the GOP invested in either of the last two General Elections. This is just the Democratic primary. High Rollers Back Room Club only need apply. Biden, Dodd, Edwards...they could not play in the game....

Howard Dean, now he had grassroots mania. I was one of them, proud of it too. This Obama-mania...not all that we assume....Let's not take this campaign at face value because it feels good...but do our homework, make informed decisions.

[zulchzulu]

39. Aw c'mon. Why interfere with a perfectly inane Hillbot theory with facts...

It is amusing seeing this sore of an OP fester.

[Maribelle]

24. And having Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shriver on her show many times since 2004 ...

does not, in any way, reveal anything about Oprah's biased political agenda, nor that Oprah would use her book club to push her biased political agenda, now does it?

[enid602]

25. waiting

I'm waiting for Oprah to give all Obama voters . . . a BRAND NEW CAR!

[NJmaverick]

28. Change Oprah to Soros and the hillary hounds sound just

like right wing nut jobs.

[cooolandrew]

29. (((oprah))) Oprah love. =)

[Tatiana]

Why don't you save words and just say "I don't like Barack Obama."

That's fine, you know.

[liberalnurse]

45. I don't dislike Obama...

I do not think he is up to the propaganda hype created in response to whims of a wealthy, bored Media Diva....that's what I don't like one bit.

I also don't like responsible, hard working Democrats being manipulated by a media mogul 's demented need to control and to strike back at America because her ancestors were slaves.

[Hard_Work]

51. This goes too far...

"I also don't like responsible, hard working Democrats being manipulated by a media mogul 's demented need to control and to strike back at America because her ancestors were slaves."

My ancestors were also slaves. So were the ancestors of a LOT of people here on DU. Are you insinuating that we all have a need to "strike back at America" because of it? I guess that makes every Black person in America a "terraist", huh? We gonna all be herded into "camps" in your version of America or what? Racist much?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

So you're saying Oprah hates America?

And is conspiring to attack it in some fashion in revenge?

[madrchsod]

31. yes she did

it`s another example of how things are done-"chicago style"

[Arugula Latte]

42. Hillary supporters: We're very sorry your candidate has no charisma.

But, really, posts like these are revealing the depth of your jealousy.

[Occam Bandage]

43. I am, along with his millions of supporters. Why do you fear the grassroots?

[liberalnurse]

46. Because the fertilizer is

contaminated.....

[Occam Bandage]

47. You have absolutely no evidence for that claim. But keep attempting to sow FUD.

[liberalnurse]

52. You can start with the link I provided in the Initial Post.

Then, answer the questions for yourself............get involved with one's decision. Ask the questions that might bust the bubble of hope. I'm asking the questions.....getting no answers from Obamarites.

[blm]

54. Some of you need to start thinking LOGICALLY. There was only one other with a

national network in place at the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007, besides TeamClinton.

He's been helping Obama quietly for alot longer than midJanuary.

It's about time Clintons get their comeuppance from all those honest Democrats they undermined for years just so THEY could have total control of the party.

No more backstabbing behind the scenes.....
http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13354

No more of Bill backstabbing nominees by keeping BushInc propped up.....
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/19/clinton.iraq/

No more Carville sabotaging voters in Ohio.....
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/oct/07/did_carville_tip_bush_off_to_kerry_strategy_woodward


No more Tonya Harding......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1k0nUWEQg

[Hill_YesWeWill]

55. she formed him out of clay and breathed life into him herself nt

[liberalnurse]

56. good one.

:rofl: