Why are you guys blaming Oprah? She's been through a lot and witnessed a lot and the dream of a somewhat progressive black president was something she never dreamed would happen. These artists wanted to be part of it. If anything criticize them for the song, which I get the feeling was composed by that arrogant loser David Foster, whose responsible for all the cheesy hits like Celine Dion's stuff.
Yeah, it's tacky that Bono was part of it, but U2 already endorsed Obama by performing together for the inaugural.
Let them be happy the nightmare is over, and then let them get ready to check Obama if he tries to hard to appeal to the right. I'm a bit worried about this guy.
It's not fascism yet because he isn't President. If he comes into power and Oprah starts endorsing him no matter what he does a la Fox News with Bush, then I'll get upset.
I'm much more angry with those scum on CNN and the network news people who are brainwashing the American mind with superficial coverage of everything -- from the campaign and destroying good men like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers to the false parallels between Obama and Lincoln and Kennedy (who was a total dick and responsible for so much murder).
She does more good than bad and is very charitable.
She also was part of endorsing the Iraq War but at least had the guts to apologize, unlike pundits like Fareed Zakaria.
I don't think this is any worse than any charity song like that one from 1985, right. Then again, I haven't actively listened to it, just had it in the background for 3 minutes or so.
On an artistic level, this isn't nearly as bad as U2 letting Mary J. Blige butcher "One."