Posted on 01/08/2018 6:52:13 AM PST by Kaslin
In case you missed the Golden Globes, talk from the night is whether Oprah Winfrey will run for president in 2020.
It started off with host Seth Meyers’s joke about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner when he said Donald Trump wasn’t qualified to be president.
“Some have said that night convinced him to run. So, if that’s true, I just want to say: Oprah, you will never be president! You do not have what it takes. And Hanks! Where’s Hanks? You will never be vice president. You are too mean and unrelatable. Now we just wait and see.”
Oprah, who would receive the Cecil B. DeMille award later that night, delivered a rousing speech that led many to wonder if she really is thinking about it.
"In my career, what I've always tried my best to do, whether on television or through film, is to say something about how men and women really behave. To say how we experience shame, how we love and how we rage, how we fail, how we retreat, persevere and how we overcome. I've interviewed and portrayed people who've withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights.
"So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say 'Me too' again," she said.
It didn’t take long for the 2020 buzz to build.
Oprah has given mixed signals in the past about whether she'd be open to a future in politics.
In June she told The Hollywood Reporter, “I will never run for public office. That’s a pretty definitive thing.”
But, she’s also toyed with the idea, tweeting out a New York Post column in September titled “Democrats’ best hope for 2020: Oprah,” thanking the author for the “VOTE of confidence!”
Then there was her March interview with Bloomberg TV’s David Rubenstein, in which she suggested she was more open to the idea of running since Trump’s election, although she never named him.
“That’s what I thought,” Winfrey said. “I thought, ‘Oh gee, I don’t have the experience, I don’t know enough.’ And now I’m thinking, ‘Oh.’”
Her best friend quickly shut down talk of her running after that interview, however.
Either way, it may not be an idea people give up on too soon. After all, even major media outlets aren't hiding their bias about it.
Nothing but respect for OUR future president. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/h4hkjewu0K— NBC (@nbc) January 8, 2018
Oh yeah. It’s starting. 3 more years of Hillaary’s old (er, Oprah’s new campaign) for 2020 AND then 2024 have started.
Instead of “I’m with HER”, it will be “ME too”.
If she gets “elected”, everyone will get a new Cadillac Escalade. Cool!
still haven’t had our first black president.
It takes so little to satisfy the left’s wet dreams.
The rest of the world sees nothing more than a bunch of laughably self-important play actors pretending they actually know something about the real world.
It will take YEARS to recover from the last “Black Liberal” president ... we don’t need another. (Too bad, Obama set the black “cause” back by a generation).
Oprah spelled backwards, is HARPO!
What total pablum.
How pathetic that her only subject is sexual harassment and the pundits are now saying Oprah for president.
There was nothing statesmanlike about her speech. While I feel sympathy for all victims of sexual assault, this was just another left-wing victim rant on ONE subject.
And it’s telling that she chose to cite ONE rare example of 6 WHITE men who raped a black woman when history and statistics are replete with many many more horrific examples of the more common black-man-rapes-white-woman travesties.
In doing so, Oprah is telling the world that she’s just another low-class racial opportunist.
Oprah is such a racist.
That’s all we need...Hollywood dipsh!ts in the White House...
Those Tweets ... Oh. My. Gosh. Are these people insane?!
Trump has a chance to win over a more diverse range of voters this time around especially if the economy is strong. One of his best and most loyal confidantes in his inner circle has been Ben Carson , a black conservative —> and expanding the base should be our prayer and focus. Not making useless demeaning comments.
That being said, Oprah just sounded off cliches and notable figures like Rose McGowan are already calling ghe bluff on Hollywood capitalizing on #MeToo without any real acknowledgement of complicitness. So the “solidarity” with women is ringing hollow.
When I watched Senator Obama’s DNC speech on back in 2004 (Bush vs. Kerry) I had a sense he could be president one day. I don’t get that feeling with Oprah. Dems remain leaderless and they are desperate for compelling voices.
Hence the name of her production company ... Harpo Productions.
“...Oprah is telling the world that she’s just another low-class racial opportunist....”
She has been since before the Obama travesty. It shows how helpless the RATS are.
The left thinks Trump won because he is a celebrity. They don’t get that Obama along with a corrupt, greedy and cowardly establishment had America suffering so badly people looked to someone outside the system to overturn the corruption tables and set things right again.
Exactly, and that is why I said one demonrat black president is enough.
Notice how none of them are discussing how black unemployment has been reduces to it’s lowest levels in history, since they started counting it in 1972? To me that’s historic news, it should be on every headline, every celebrities mouth.
Instead what do they focus on? Bringing us back to the do nothing politics of the left. All they care about are themselves.
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