Submitted by M. Drewy, Dec 20, 2007 09:26

Oprah might just as well have stayed home and hung out with her gal pal Gayle. It was hoped her recent appearances on the campaign trail to promote the presidential aspirations of her friend Barack Obama would have dazzled women voters. But noooo . . .new poll released Wednesday by Lifetime Networks and Zogby International. And what the pollsters found was that Oprah made little difference in the way women are looking at the candidates. In fact, with some groups of women, Oprah's efforts actually backfired. 73% of women said it made no difference to their campaign choices at all. Voters don't want "to have their entertainment figures involved in political support," explained Fritz Wenzel, director of communications at Zogby International.Women say they don't feel obliged to support Clinton because she is a woman; they support her because she is a strong, smart woman and a role model, according to the poll. That is especially true for minority women who say they are more interested in supporting Clinton because she is a woman than they are in voting for Obama because he is a minority candidate. 32 percent of Democratic women trust Clinton, followed by Obama at 19 percent. Now we just have to get more women elected at all levels of government if we really want to make a difference. You go girls!

Obama Takes Black Voters for Granted, when a controversy erupted over the Jena Six. Obama chose not to take up the mantle of past civil rights leaders by not joining the Jena Six protest, Jesse Jackson (Obama supporter) said he's acting like he's white. Was a unique moment for Obama to show support for the black community, but didnt. Now he must explain to Democratic voters why he doesn't want to continue the fights of the 1960s -- included battles over civil rights, the antiwar movement, expansion of Social Security and expanding health care (Medicare).

Obama was as faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature, to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough-on-crime moderate. In the end, Mr. Obama chose neither to vote for nor against the bill. He voted "present," effectively sidestepping the issue, an option he invoked nearly 130 times as a state senator

This is not the time for obama

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