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Michael Moore: We should run Oprah, Tom Hanks for president
Hot Air ^ | November 13, 2016 | John Sexton

Posted on 11/14/2016 8:09:41 AM PST by Cheerio

Michael Moore appeared on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday and suggested it was time for Democrats to think about running beloved non-politicians like Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks for president.

CNN’s Jake Tapper played a clip in which Oprah expressed her renewed hope based on what she saw last week during Donald Trump’s meeting with President Obama. “To hear president-elect Trump say that he had respect for President Obama—it felt that he had reached a moment where he was actually humbled by that experience…I think everybody can take a deep breath,” Oprah said.

Michael Moore replied, “Well, that’s why we love Oprah.” He added, “Somebody needs to say that. We do need hope.” But then Moore went on to say, “Look that’s the sideshow that needs to happen in a week like this but, frankly, Democrats would be better off if they ran Oprah or Tom Hanks.” “Why don’t we run beloved people? We have so many of them. The Republicans do this. They run Reagan and the Terminator and other people. Why don’t we…why don’t we run somebody that the American people love?” he said.

This is exactly the turn I predicted Democrats might make when I wrote about their thin bench last Wednesday:

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hollwood; moore
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Following up on the huge successes of Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura!! Pretty hilarious.

Get ready to barf.....




Michelle Obama for President in 2020?


1 posted on 11/14/2016 8:09:41 AM PST by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio

And, of course, we’ll hear nothing about “experience” again, will we?


2 posted on 11/14/2016 8:11:23 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Cheerio

Actually Michael YOU should run......a few laps around a track, if you know what I mean.


3 posted on 11/14/2016 8:12:11 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Cheerio

So they still aren’t getting it. Good.

Trump was NOT just an outsider. He was an outsider when people wanted change and wanted what the “insiders” had done to change.

If Trump is even HALF successful in implementing his policies, there will be no change mandate in 2020, so running an inexperienced outsider will backfire.

Cankles tried to run on experience, but when things are going badly, that experience is in failure.


4 posted on 11/14/2016 8:12:47 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Cheerio

How about you run, Moore—on the Stupid Fat A$$ party.


5 posted on 11/14/2016 8:13:06 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Huskrrrr

LOL, I see what you did there.


6 posted on 11/14/2016 8:15:33 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Cheerio

Most politicians are in the business for life, and they have legions of ‘hangers on’ that have to be fed.

That Trump was able to overcome this was revolutionary.

Could the rats have a similar revolution? Not while they’ve got so many super-delegates in the primary. The party allegedly for the ‘common man’ has backroom deals as the backbone of their existence.

I am curious, however, to see which rat has the spine to endure a campaign against Trump next.


7 posted on 11/14/2016 8:15:50 AM PST by lacrew
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To: Da Coyote
And, of course, we’ll hear nothing about “experience” again, will we?

Experience at reading a line over and over over in front of a 35mm film camera? Not so much.

Now in the case of O she may have a little talent - it is not easy to conduct a talk show, and she ran a successful billion dollar enterprise like the Donald.
8 posted on 11/14/2016 8:15:51 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

I’ve seen that before.She’d have to get a Governorship or a Senate seat,and serve as such for a while,before she announced otherwise even the NY Times would see her candidacy as a joke.So 2020 is unrealistic...but 2024 might not be.


9 posted on 11/14/2016 8:16:15 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Da Coyote

Theres NO Bizness like SHOW bizness
If you’re democrat

Oprah could bully half the world into respecting America because she’s black woman and they owe her

And Tom Hanks by movie roles has spent more time in uniform than most democrats so there’s our Commander in Chief


10 posted on 11/14/2016 8:16:23 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Cheerio

People didn’t vote for Murphy because he was a good dancer. They believed he would make a fine Senator.


11 posted on 11/14/2016 8:16:25 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors!)
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To: Cheerio
To hear president-elect Trump say that he had respect for President Obama

That was just for the camera, the papers and nit-wits like you.

12 posted on 11/14/2016 8:16:32 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Cheerio

Moore is delusional, I like his idea because it’s stupid and won’t work. In fact, perhaps they should run Alec Baldwin.


13 posted on 11/14/2016 8:17:36 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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Donald J. Trump... ‘most interesting man in the world’


14 posted on 11/14/2016 8:18:55 AM PST by existtoexcel
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To: Cheerio
He must be joking...
15 posted on 11/14/2016 8:19:15 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Da Coyote

Tom Hanks said we attacked Japan in WW2 because of racism.
He would be perfect for a democrat candidate.


16 posted on 11/14/2016 8:20:33 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: LS

This is what happens when blacks, hispanics, women, gays and other assorted “food groups” are elevated to top positions in an organization. Incompetence. Hint: put the best at the top, ignore attributes which have no effect on job performance. If Trump appoints a gay female black hispanic to a top post there is only one reason: she is the best. Looking forward to the years ahead.


17 posted on 11/14/2016 8:21:05 AM PST by John Robinson (I am a twit @_John_Robinson)
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To: lacrew

my guess... Liawatha... depending upon how trump does. Bernie was on the right track sort of with the for the common man theme before hellery shot him down.


18 posted on 11/14/2016 8:22:07 AM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: lacrew

The difference between President Clinton and President Trump is that the people waiting outside her door are owed something by her. Those outside Trump’s door owe something to him.


19 posted on 11/14/2016 8:25:01 AM PST by AU72
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To: Cheerio

The sad thing is that the Democrats could run Kim Kardashian and lots of people would vote for her.


20 posted on 11/14/2016 8:25:16 AM PST by Gumdrop
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