Reply #18: Cool find! That was waaay back in October 18, 2006! (link) [View All]

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If you picked it up with a pair of tweezers and plopped it down in a sterile laboratory environment, the conversation which took place between Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama on Oct. 18, 2006, probably wouldn’t look so good under a microscope.

Here were two people with impeccably manicured public images bemoaning the calculated spin of politics. Two professionally driven people paying homage to life outside of work. If you tested the exchange for traces of organic life, the results would probably come back negative.

But thanks to the fertile emotional agar of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the interview was well received. In the end, the proven convention-hall orator walked away with some much-needed small-room credibility. At one point, Ms. Winfrey asked the senator from Illinois about his presidential ambitions. “So if you were ever to run … would you announce on this show?”

“I don’t think I could say no to you,” replied Mr. Obama. And a few seconds later: “Oprah, you’re my girl.”

Ms. Winfrey did not get to break the big news—but she is definitely Obama’s girl, supporting the Illinois senator’s presidential bid in her typically big, multiplatform way. And now, the the “My Girl” interchange is campaign-famous.

In what the Internet universe refers to as “meatspace,” there’s the big Sept. 8 fund-raiser for Mr. Obama—to be held at her $64 million estate in Montecito, Calif. (Tara II, it’s called.)...

http://www.observer.com/2007/oprah-cranks-obama-machine