Posted on 12/10/2010 7:25:38 AM PST by kristinn
Syndicated TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey tore into the American people for lacking "reason," "respect," "civility," and "decency" and "only thinking about themselves" for not supporting Barack Obama. Winfrey made her scathing criticism during an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters.
A survey released this week showed that a majority of the country believes they are worse off after nearly two years of the Obama presidency.
WALTERS: "And today, what would you say to him (Obama)? How do you feel about it all?"
WINFREY: "I feel that it is, first of all why would anybody want that job? To get, because no matter what you do and how uh, much you give of your heart and wisdom and uh, soul and energy, and I think he's, he's really fully there, giving his all. And to be criticized the way he is I think it's unfortunate. I think it's unfortunate when you have a nation of people who don't want to support the president of the United States."
WALTERS: "Do you think he's communicating?"
WINFREY: "I think that he is. You know what I think that what wasn't communicated? I think we don't realize was how close we came to depression. And as soon as we got saved from the brink of that we all forgot what that was, we all forgot. And so I think that he has done a lot and I think that people uh, can't see it because they're only thinking about themselves. The fact that people uh, still are out of jobs, but we're not in breadlines, we have forgotten, we have forgotten how close we came.
"So I think that there needs to be a greater level of respect and a sense of uh, decency and civility and reason. And I think we, we've lost that."
Transcript by kristinn.
Video of the interview can be found at the Huffington Post.
If 0 is a failure, then O has made a mistake. A megalomaniac cannot accept being flawed, ergo, WE THE PEOPLE are wrong...............
Obama isn’t in any danger of losing the “down low’ black vote!
You forgot the (barf alert)
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Um, I don’t know but I’m fairly certain it was right.
Hey O, you speak like a commie supporter.
Americans are thinking about Our Country, Our Constitution!*
What does she think will happen to her billion dollars when the Communists take over? Does she thinks she'll get to keep it or will she have to work in the fields?
“I think it’s unfortunate when you have a nation of people who don’t want to support the president of the United States.”
It is more unfortunate to have a nation of people whose majority would vote this kind of person into office. Basically no resume of “real jobs.” Many dubious associations. Wildly unrealistic promises. Total naivete about what he could and could not get done. No concept of basic economical principles. And the list goes on.
After just two years, that majority has become a minority. Unless Obama has a huge turnaround, I hope we are supporting someone else (a true conservative!) in two years.
IMO, The Oprah is a pathetic hypocrite””
There are a million reasons why we don’t support Obama.
Get off the color/race bandwagon, Oprah. In your tax brackets, your rise in taxes would support the state of North Dakota!!!
She needs to remember that there are still people who live without electricity & running water inside their houses, even tho she did so many years ago.
She also needs to realize that what she spends on shoes for one year is 3 times what many people live on for a family of 4 with a mortgage in this country. Working people—welders—auto mechanics—warehouse handlers—delivery drivers. Mom & Pop businesses which serve us in a million ways.
I don’t begrudge Oprah her success——
But she needs to get off her high horse & start seeing much more of the country.
She needs to go to really small town America & see what a solid core this country has. Go spend a day in Oak, Nebraska—part of the Pony Express trail with 678 population. Jeffrey City, Wyoming-—site of a mine which is barely operating or closed down. Hawthorne, Nevada, where the military runs a Navy Deep Water Diving School & is filled with military retirees scraping by on very few dollars. Or Winnemucca, Nevada, where potatoes, mining & cattle ranching are king.
Her ‘beef’ with the beef producers of the country apparently didn’t teach her a single thing.
Perhaps it is time for her to build a school for young girls of the South of the USA instead of African girls, where she had no effective control of the staff.
Hey LISTEN!! Just because he says we’re all ignorant doesn’t mean we shouldn’t bow and scrape before alter of his “holiness”
So thats it right? I mean you could be a natural born dumbass and get elected president if people around you can run a successful campaign. I think there should be at least 2 more prerequisites to become president. You must have governed a state for at least 4 years and you must have served in the military for at least 4 years. Thats not too much to ask is it?
The trouble is that ZerO has no heart, no soul, and no discernible intellect.
IOW, he has nothing to give but he certainly has found a way to TAKE TAKE and TAKE some more.
Sounds more to me like Obama than just about anyone I can think of.
Oprah is revealing herself to be a racist. Then it's understandable for someone who spent any time as a regular parishioner in Jeremiah Wright's flock of chanting haters.
Perhaps, Oprah knows what is coming economically and is setting up the blame to fall on an evergrowing skeptical public.
BTW, Oprah's fat smelly ass benefited from the same sort of white guilt that propelled "her boy" into what once was the most powerful position in the world.
Oprah, YOU may not be in a breadline, but what the hell do you think a foodbank IS? And they’re all swamped.
yawn.
yawn.
I wonder who is the bigger megalomaniac—Obama or Oprah?
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