Obama’s Judgement Flawed by Oprah Disclosures

Newsweek’s Allison Samuels writes in the May 11 Issue of NEWSWEEK that Oprah Winfrey joined Barack Obama’s Church to be with Chicago’s movers and shakers and left it in part because Rev Jeremiah Wright ‘incendiary’ rhetoric made her uncomfortable and that could hurt her professionally and because of her disquiet with organized religion. Oprah, says Samuels, was “blindsided” by Wright’s assault on Obama because she says Wright was a father figure. to Obama.

The article describes Obama as a man in search of his identity as a Black-American, and more importantly as a Black-American man. Samuels contends Wright and other men in the church helped him understand the Black-American experience.

Winfrey says Samuels had been around black churches all her life and was used to anger-filled messages. But, she decided her mainstream audience and doing anything to offend them ( including being around Wright) wouldn’t be smart.

Samuels’ article begs the question : If staying around Wright wouldn’t be smart in the judgment of an entertainer why would it be otherwise judged by a man desiring to be President with the greatest audience of all to answer to - the entire American people?