Oprah Winfrey ShowIf you picked it up with a pair of tweezers and plopped it down in a sterile laboratory environment, the conversation which took place on the Oprah Winfrey Show with Barack Obama on Oct. 18, 2006, probably wouldn't look so good under a microscope. Here were two people with very 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 power 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?', Oprah asked on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Look for more information on Obama in the Oprah magazine or on future Oprah Winfrey Show episodes. Does Oprah the secret have a chance helping Obama get elected?