Have you followed this race since January?
On 2/3 Oprah, Caroline Kennedy, and Michelle Obama spoke before a crowd at UCLA. Later, Maria Shriver was a surprise.
Oprah:
politico.com
"In her speech before the not-quite-capacity crowd at Pauley Pavilion, Winfrey discussed how people had dissed her for being a “traitor” to her gender and said she was voting for Obama because he was black.
Regarding the former charge, she declared, “The truth is I’m a free woman, a free woman, a free woman, and being free means you get to think for yourself.” Concerning the charge of racial bias, she told her detractors, “Don’t play me small. ... I’m not voting for him because he’s black [but] because he’s brilliant.”
Winfrey implored women who already planned to vote for someone else (read: Hillary) that they had “the right to change [their] mind.”
Still, she marveled that the Democratic campaign has a woman and a black man as its two front-runners.
“We have won the struggle,” she declared in her best preacher’s tone, adding that the two candidates are “a declaration of victory for women’s rights and civil rights and now we are free – free from the constructions of gender and race,” meaning “for the first time we can vote what we believe.”
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