Folks, we’re getting into some serious campaigning now. It’s not too long until the Iowa Caucus, and the candidates are pulling out their big guns. Hillary not only has Bill on the stump for her but also daughter Chelsea. You know, I’d wondered what ever happened to Chelsea but now she’s back. So with the Clintons, it’s a family affair. I don’t know if affair’s the right word to use when you’re talking about Slick Willie.

But he’s out on the road campaigning for Hillary, feeling your pain, asking what the definition of “is” is, and giving lessons on how to do the cow patty sidestep when anybody asks a direct question. Well, Hillary’s not the only one getting some help on the campaign trail. Barack Obama, who’s giving Hillary a pretty good run for her money in Iowa, has brought out his big gun, Oprah Winfrey. Oh, yes, Oprah and Obama, the two big O’s in the campaign have teamed up.

On the thought that Oprah has sold a lot of books by recommending you read them, Oprah hopes her same powers of persuasion will cause you to vote for Barack Obama. She said we need to worry about the direction the country’s going and added that Obama’s ability to lead it is what led her to make her first endorsement of a presidential candidate. She said she felt nervous “out of her pew” as she put it, addressing a gathering that was packed in to hear her.

She didn’t mention Hillary by name but she was subtle about her position on charges that Obama doesn’t have the experience to be president. She told the crowd, “the amount of time you spend in Washington means nothing unless you’re accountable for the judgments you’ve made. ” Well, that’s the problem. And, please forgive me here, I’m not siding with Hillary in any way, but Obama keeps talking about how he’s anti-war. I assume he means Iraq.

He says he would have voted against the war. But he didn’t. He wasn’t in the senate then. He was a state senator in Illinois. And unless the state of Illinois discussed declaring war on Iraq, his argument is just talk. But he does have an advantage over Hillary. She’s decided which way the wind is blowing in the Democrat camp and she’s having to do some real back pedaling on the fact that she voted for the war in Iraq.

I wonder if she could fall back on a Clintonism, change it slightly, and say about voting for the war in Iraq, “that all depends on what the definition of ‘for’ is.” And the way she’s been attacking the other candidates in the Democrat party, she could enlist the help of her own talk show host before January 3.

Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, may I present tonight’s guest endorser, Jerry Springer.