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Oprah Winfrey Not Ruling Out Presidential Run
New York Post ^ | March 1, 2017 | 8:51 | By Daniel Halper

Posted on 03/01/2017 11:58:49 AM PST by drewh

Legendary TV host Oprah Winfrey hinted that she’s considering a run for the White House while taking a shot at President Trump in a recent interview.

Asked whether she considered running for president, Winfrey suggested in an episode of Bloomberg’s “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” that it’s on her mind.

“I actually never thought that was — I never considered the question, even a possibility, I just thought ‘Oh, oh,’” Winfrey said in the interview that aired Wednesday.

Rubenstein responded, “Right, because it’s clear that you don’t need government experience to be elected president of the United States, right?”

“That’s what I thought,” Winfrey said. “I thought, ‘Oh gee, I don’t have the experience, I don’t know enough.’ Now I’m thinking, ‘Oh, oh.’”

Winfrey’s facial expressions — and the crowd reaction — made it clear what she was implying: Now that someone with no political experience, Donald Trump, has become president, it’s altered her way of looking at the office.

Winfrey was a big booster for President Obama and has experience on the campaign trail from when she stumped for him.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: oprah2020; oprahpotusnot
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To: drewh

Oh please. She thinks, “Well, if Trump can do it then so can I.”


41 posted on 03/01/2017 12:14:21 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: cymbeline

You couldn’t be more wrong, if you tried extra hard, to be.


42 posted on 03/01/2017 12:14:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Telepathic Intruder

George Washington. All kinds of it.


43 posted on 03/01/2017 12:14:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

You forgot gossip in your description


44 posted on 03/01/2017 12:15:26 PM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: drewh

oprah??????? LMAO.....priceless....oprah...bwahahahahahahahahahaha


45 posted on 03/01/2017 12:15:30 PM PST by rockabyebaby (The next four years will be YUGE!)
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To: haircutter
WE WILL HAVE TRUMP FOR EIGHT AND PENCE FOR EIGHT...

From your keyboard to God's ears. I hope you're right.

46 posted on 03/01/2017 12:16:09 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: haircutter

Then Ivanka, Don Jr and Barron for another 24. Think we are good for almost a half century.


47 posted on 03/01/2017 12:18:37 PM PST by libh8er
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To: drewh

Her VP can be Jerry Springer...


48 posted on 03/01/2017 12:18:50 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: drewh

Oh please, please run, Orca!!! It will be so much fun whipping your gigantic dumb@ss at the polls!! You think that having generational welfare cheats and the chronically unemployed as your main fan base somehow qualifies you to be POTUS. That’s hilarious, truly hilarious.

Orca is a fat, pampered narcissist and she wouldn’t last any longer as a candidate than insane asylum escapee Ashley Judd lasted. I think Mitch McConnell finished off Miz Judd in less than three months, it was a thing of beauty. :0)


49 posted on 03/01/2017 12:20:00 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: drewh

Oprah thinks running a Country is like running her Entourage


50 posted on 03/01/2017 12:21:48 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Ueriah

never underestimate the stupidity of those who got obama elected not once, but twice-


51 posted on 03/01/2017 12:22:04 PM PST by Bob434
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To: drewh
Winfrey’s facial expressions — and the crowd reaction — made it clear what she was implying: Now that someone with no political experience, Donald Trump, has become president, it’s altered her way of looking at the office.

This is nonsense.

Winfrey clearly thought in 1988 that a younger Donald Trump had enough experience when she asked him back then if he'd consider running for President.

YouTube: Donald Trump Teases a President Bid During a 1988 Oprah Show | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN

-PJ

52 posted on 03/01/2017 12:23:47 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the first question.)
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To: JudyinCanada

[[Normally I’d laugh, but there are enough stupid people out there....she’d have all of the Obama/Hitlery crowd, no problem.]]

And many independents too-


53 posted on 03/01/2017 12:24:11 PM PST by Bob434
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To: libh8er
Flunked every class you ever had, or did you sleep through them all?

You should ask a MOD to remove your patently ridiculous post; elsewise, everyone will always be able to see just how uneducated you are, re what's in the Constitution. And please don't even go anywhere the canard of "IF OBAMA COULD....".

54 posted on 03/01/2017 12:24:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Telepathic Intruder
We just went through eight years with a president who never accomplished anything but run for political office. He was a disaster to our economy and to our foreign policy. I will take someone with years of real world experience over a no dick chump from academia. If it wasn't for the corrupt media obama wouldn't be able to show his face in public.
55 posted on 03/01/2017 12:24:53 PM PST by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear.)
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To: Crolis

“Her slogan will be “HOPRAH”.”

To me, she’ll always be DOPRAH.


56 posted on 03/01/2017 12:26:36 PM PST by simpson96
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To: drewh
You need Executive Experience. The more the better, and the bigger the enterprise, the better. Thats why I prefer Governors over Congressman. There was nobody LESS prepared for the presidency than Obama.

Does Oprah have the kind of executive experience that Trump has? I dont know. Dont really care.

57 posted on 03/01/2017 12:26:40 PM PST by Paradox ("Donald Trump", the biggest Strawman ever created.)
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To: Bob434

Funny, one conservative friend said just the other night that this has been a fear of hers, that Oprah would run.

I said, no way......looks like I was wrong. Gulp.


58 posted on 03/01/2017 12:26:48 PM PST by del4hope (I just can't do stupid)
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To: drewh

No way this old fat lady wants to work hard enough any more to take on presidential run.


59 posted on 03/01/2017 12:27:13 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: drewh

“Gay scandal” makes her more attractive to Dems.


60 posted on 03/01/2017 12:28:18 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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