Obama's smoking gun

America's daytime diva Oprah Winfrey will join Illinois Senator Barack Obama on the hustings next month in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, three early-voting states critical to his bid to upend New York Senator Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Historically, high-profile endorsements – political or celebrity – have proved far more effective at drawing crowds than actually influencing races, but Winfrey may prove to be the exception. full article, more and more than a motherfucking shitload