Oprah Under Attack by Women for Supporting Obama

 One thing that I have thoroughly enjoyed thus-far in the primary season is watching and listening to the Democrats expose themselves. By this I mean that they are considered the party of all-inclusiveness and caring, yet are dividing themselves by race and gender. Democrats have carefully constructed an image with women and minorities as the only party that will be able to help them, and they have also constructed the false belief that Republicans only want to tear women and minorities down. But now there is an interesting dynamic in the Democrat race, a woman and a minority with a legitimate chance to become president, and that is beginning to expose them.

 There has been racial bickering between Obama and Clinton for several weeks now, and the latest “victim” of the increasingly bitter campaign between the candidates is Oprah.

 Oprah has come under attack for betraying fellow woman by endorsing a black man. Her website has been over-run with angry liberal women. She has even been called a traitor by women.

It started with a message on her website entitled “Oprah is a traitor” and rapidly expanded to include several discussions that attracted hundreds of comments.

In the original post, a reader called austaz68 said she “cannot believe that women all over this country are not up in arms over Oprah’s backing of Obama. For the first time in history we actually have a shot at putting a woman in the White House and Oprah backs the black MAN. She’s choosing her race over her gender.”

 Now here is what gets me. These people are supposed to be tolerant of others, they are supposed to be color blind and multi-cultural, women are supposed to be equal,  yet they believe that Oprah should endorse a candidate based on gender. The fact that the woman who wrote this is basing her vote solely on Clinton’s gender rather than looking at the issues is evident. Perhaps if she looked at the issues she would still vote for Hillary, but that is where her decision should come from. What is also evident is the fact that she truly believes Oprah should base her endorsement on gender not race. She is also intimating that Oprah’s endorsement is based on something other than the issues, which is what voters should be voting on.

 I find it amusing that those who aren’t supposed to be lumping people into groups are the ones who see race and gender first.

 Perhaps Oprah looked at where the candidates stood on the issues and made a decision based on who she felt best represented her beliefs. This would be the responsible thing to do, not vote based on race or gender. Maybe she doesn’t think Clinton is liberal enough so she went with one of the most liberal politicians to have a legitimate chance at becoming president.

  Nobody will ever know for sure why Oprah decided to vote for Obama, but as I said earlier, I find it terribly amusing that the most tolerant, caring, all inclusive people in the world are attacking one of their own for not voting for someone who looks the most like them.  

 Democrats have turned this election into a contest between a woman and a minority instead of a contest about which candidate has the best ideas and most represents them as a party. That is why I say that Democrats are being exposed in this election. Democrats have hyphenated people into different classes of Americans, IE African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and so forth. Somehow Democrats have made the case that by separating Americans into hyphenated classes it is more inclusive to the groups they are separating. Now they have two of the groups with a very real chance at making it to the white house and instead of voting for the candidate that best represents their beliefs, they are voting for the person who looks like them. Democrats have stereotyped Republicans as racist and sexist, yet now they are being exposed as the real racists and sexists.

 Read more about Oprah under attack here.