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Oprah Backs Obama, Won't Attack Hillary
Appearing on the first day of Larry King's 50th anniversary week, Oprah said she still endorses Barack Obama as her candidate for president.
King posed the question of whether a black man can be elected president. Oprah said, "I believe he can . . . I do believe that it's possible." Saying that she had never endorsed a candidate before, she told King that what made her do so now is because "I know him personally; I think that what he stands for, what he has proven that he can stand for, was worth me going out on a limb for him. I haven't done it in the past; I haven't felt that I knew anybody well enough to be able to say I believe in this person." When King asked her if her womanly side would make her lean toward Hillary she said, "I have great respect for Hillary Clinton. I have said before that because I am for Barack, does not mean that I am against Hillary or anybody else. . . . I have not one negative thing to say about Hillary Clinton." She added that she had not contributed money to Obama's campaign. "My money is not going to make any difference to him. I think that my value to him, my support of him is probably worth more than any check that I could write."
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King also touched down on the contentious Don Imus issue.
Had Don Imus been part of her show he would have been gone almost immediately after his infamous remarks about the girls of Rutger's University basketball team, Oprah said.
"I have my own radio channel, and if somebody on my radio channel had made such degrading remarks, I would've fired them." Turning to the substance of Imus' remarks Oprah said, "The thing that really saddens me is that we have reached the point in our society where someone could feel comfortable making such degrading remarks about women."
Oprah told King she would never run for political office: "I have four or five years left on my show, and when I'm done with that contract, I'm done. Then I want to change the laws, state-by-state for child predators in this country; and that's what I want to have done. And I won't be satisfied until that is done. The children of the United States are being stolen, raped, tortured, and killed by sexual predators. I want the laws to change."
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