Posted on 01/09/2018 1:40:54 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Have we learned nothing?
One speech at the Golden Globes — admittedly a barn-burner — and here comes the drumbeat for a billionaire celebrity with no governing experience to run for president.
“I’m on the bus with Oprah,” Jimmy Kimmel said.
“She’s running,” tweeted former “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr. “A new day is on the way.”
Even a major network endorsed her. “Nothing but respect for OUR future president,” read a tweet on NBC’s verified account (since deleted).
Oprah, who until Sunday night insisted she would never run for president — “I will never run for public office,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in October — is apparently having second thoughts.
“It’s up to the people,’” her partner Stedman Graham told the L.A. Times. “She would absolutely do it.”
She should absolutely not.
Yes, Winfrey is a singular presence in the culture. She is entirely self-made and a decades-long mover in television, film, publishing and philanthropy. As of 2017, she was one of only two women on Forbes’s Black Female Billionaires list. There is much to admire.
But none of this makes her fit to be leader of the free world. And just because the precedent has been set with Trump — to horrible effect — doesn’t mean the Democrats should run a charismatic celebrity with zero credentials. Not Tom Hanks, not The Rock, not Oprah Winfrey.
If this sobering year has taught us anything, it’s that experience, intellect and stability, while hardly electrifying, should matter. A run for the White House should never again resemble a reality show. If the Democrats want to run as the adults in the room, they should lose their starstruck notions of President Oprah — who, through decades of public life, has revealed a startling level of gullibility and greed.
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Never underestimate the gullibility of stupid people in large numbers.
Her fake nature won’t sell in Iowa. So the primary business will take her down a step or two. If she did make it past the convention, I think the same list of twenty states that Hillary won....will line up for Oprah, and not one state more.
But it’s a free nation, and if she wants to run....let her. One odd factor is that she is an outsider to the DC machine and would not be so heavily tied to lobbyists.
She’s a racist cow just like Michael (Mooch).
Yeah sure. We are 20 trillion in debt with our troops scatterred all over the world, while our borders are overrun by invading barbarians. All brought to you by politicians and politically connected public servants. How on earth did this happen ? Could it be that these politicians and public servants have become nothing more than, lobbyist bought whores, who do not write or even read the bills they vote on ? While I don’t think Oprah would make a good President, I certainly think that a garbage collector might do better than these deep state cronies. At least they know how to balance a checkbook and realize that someone has to take the trash out.
Harvey makes his move and Oprah smiles with approval.
It would be exactly like running Hillary again. Besides, most of her (and Hillary’s) constituency is heading for the nursing homes now.
And gave away others people money. And got credit for it.
and they STILL don't understand why Trump won ...
and that is good for us ...
I want tickets to her inauguration because there’s going to be keys to a BRAND NEW CAR under every seat!
This needs to start running as an ad now.
Ok, now that was an awesome post.
After careful examination of that photo, I can come to no conclusion other than Oprah is pimping that girl out, plain and simple. I was born at night, but not last night.
And this from a woman whose weight has yo-yo'd all over the place, diet after diet, because she has no self control.
Excellent writing, btw, Thanks!!
Oprah would be outed as the light shines in her closet.
Sure looks that way.
A legend in her own mind.
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