Barack Obama is bringing out the big dogs in Iowa and this week he's brought out the biggest dog of them all.
I think the term big dog refers to hunting but then again I've never used the expression before but for some reason it seems to apply here and it has nothing to do with negativity.
Bring out the big dogs seems to me to be a very aggressive and serious gesture.
Whatever or wherever the term originated I can safely say that Barack Obama is bringing out the big dog by traveling with Oprah Winfield.
Suddenly it feels like the Oprah Winfield campaign and I suppose that's not a bad thing for Barack.
IT COULD HAVE A BACKLASH EFFECT....but then again an endorsement from Oprah is probably the single biggest endorsement he could receive.
A TOUR WITH OPRAH IS ANOTHER ENTIRE BALLGAME.
IOWA has become the center of the universe now that Oprah has entered the scene. I saw a picture yesterday in the paper where 23,000 people (mostly women in the picture) had gathered in Des Moines for an OPRAH/BARACK tour event. She will probably have Led Zepplin play at their next event.
By the way...why is the Led Zepplin performace in London NOT being offered on Pay per view?
To offset the Oprah/Barack Tour..... Hillary countered with Chelsea.
In the meantime on the Republican side in NEW HAMPHSIRE, Mike Huckabee continues to rise and this week Mitt Romney made his first religious content speech. I read it and I'm not sure it was effective because when he talks I really can't figure out what he's really saying.
The only similarities between JFK and Mitt Romney are the good hair and Massachusetts.
He's got the political bs down pat and it will probably get him the nomination.
ROMNEY/HUCKABEE would be a formidable foe for the Democrats.
But of course the questions will arise about Huckabee being an ordained Baptist Minister....and combine that with the Morman dealio and they would be open for numerous unique questions.
If he really is a creationist then I would think we will finally have a forum on a very important issue.
Questions that could arise during the ultimate debate between the two final nominees...if those two are Huckabee and Obama.
"Governor Huckabee....DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED WITHIN THE LAST 10,000 YEARS?"
"Governor Romney...do you really think that the Book of Mormons contained passages that told men to have multiple wives?"
I can't wait to hear those answers.
And then there's Barack questions.
"Senator Obama....is Oprah going to be Secretary of State?"
I can't wait to hear that answer.
The Barack/Oprah Tour will be a tour that Republicans do not want to see happen on a national basis.
Of course Hillary still has Bill and he is Oprah with POLITICAL EXPERIENCE.
Bill Clinton could have a talk show and compete quite nicely with Oprah.
I would watch it.....but of course I've never watched an entire Oprah show so maybe I'm not in the targeted demographic.
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Michael Timothy McAlevey
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Democrat Barack Obama hopes to capitalize on the so-called "Oprah Effect" which, according to a Bloomberg writer, is known to "transform books, beauty products and foods into sales blockbusters." Unfortunately, I predict it may have the opposite effect and result in the Illinois senator's presidential aspirations being left in A Million Little Pieces.
Forgive me for the reference to James Frey's famously fabricated memoir. But with polls showing Hillary Clinton at her lowest point since announcing her candidacy and the Iowa Caucuses less than 30 days out, I predict the Clinton political machine is on the verge of striking Obama. And striking hard.
Just days before families across the nation -- especially in Iowa and New Hampshire -- begin gathering for Christmas, I expect the machine to kick into high gear, serving up a buffet of dirty little secrets to its lapdogs in the mainstream news media.
By the time the Iowa Caucuses are held Jan. 3, those dirty little secrets unearthed by Hillary's folks -- whatever they turn out to be and regardless of whether or not they bear a shred of truth -- will have raised "reasonable doubt" in the minds of the jury (a.k.a., "Iowa voters"). As a result, Hillary will win Iowa.
That victory will, of course, be heralded by the likes of CNN, the Daily Kos and the Washington Post as a precursor of things to come in the Democratic primaries. Six months and several dirty little secrets later, Hillary will have the nomination wrapped up.
And that's where the 'A Million Little Pieces' reference returns to the picture.
Remember the media frenzy that surrounded Frey's return appearance on Oprah's couch. She sat him down and, in front of millions of viewers and a studio audience full of scowling faces, chewed him out for failing to live up to her expectations. After all, Frey's book was an Oprah's Book Club selection.
The same thing is going to happen to Obama.
The man Oprah had anointed as the first black president of the United States even before the first vote was cast will be verbally flogged for having lost the Democratic Party nomination and, as a result, brought much shame and humiliation to the O.
All hail Oprah!
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