I'm all for her campaigning for whoever she likes but, no.

Nothing against Oprah, but I don't think that is a good idea.

Maybe if she runs for senate or some position in government first, then lets see how she does and we can then give her our support if she proves herself.

I would like Al Franken to move into having the investigation on his accusers done, then run for president.

Please, please, let's consider experienced politicians. This is ridiculous.

I'm sorry. There was nothing actually wrong with it, but I certainly did not find it "extraordinary". Come on.

Her speech was one of the least moving moments of the show. Sure, I had a relative who claimed she cried over it, but this is the same relative who gets excited over the Hallmark keepsake ornament every year and sends out excited hints about it ahead of time. She's also in her 50s and has a Harry Potter tree; more power to her, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to take her as a benchmark for great speeches.

It was just Oprah being Oprah, which means she pushed the buttons of a lot of gullible people. I was far more moved by the moment of unscripted solidarity between Sharon Stone and Mariah Carey ahead of time - two people who get a lot more flak than Oprah ever does for just being themselves.

I'm not trying to knock Oprah here, but there was absolutely nothing special about her speech.

I'm completely kerflummoxed. This is a woman who had a meltdown when Hermes wouldn't stay open late for her. This is a woman who inflicted Dr. Phil on the world. This is a woman who once almost took down the beef industry and then changed her mind about the information she got.

I think she's an okay person (and I actually enjoy her acting) but there was nothing original in that entire speech and absolutely nothing that stood out.

I just don't get the adulation.

made up your mind about her, and one speech wasn't going to change that.

I certainly don't think she's qualified to run for office. Remember her academy, and the problems it faced out of the gate? She may have meant well, but she's no more qualified to run a school system than she is to run for office. She should stick to what she's good at, but that's not the new normal in our world.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/troubles-oprah-winfreys-school-south-africa/story?id=12950275

and cosntant attempts to rehab his image and give him a new career as an "expert" author.

She appears to like to keep the camera close.



Tikki

I don't understand why people actively value inexperience when it comes to politics. In every single profession out there, other than politics, you want the most experienced person out there. If you're sick, you want the most experienced doctor out there. If you want to build a house, you want an architect who's built other houses. But in politics, being a novice is an asset, even if the job entails running the largest government in the history of the planet.

I don't get it. We hired a novice on 2016, and it's not going well.

Black...
A POWERFUL Woman...
More popular than Trump....
More Magazine Covers than Trump.....
Better Ratings than Trump....
RICHER than Trump....
Actually reads real books.....
Liked....

That ought to lead to an epic twitter rant. But I wonder what her nickname will be?

says the same thing.

Link to tweet

he should be worried about 2018, and I don't mean November.

He can't help himself. It's fun for him. Large crowds, lots of tv coverage, lots of print stories. He never left campaign mode. He is still in it, hence the campaign events he has held so many times since taking office.

He will campaign even if he is impeached. About the only way to stop him is a jail cell, but there is about a zero percent chance of that.

That sounds like the idiotic justification the GOP has for their batshit nominees.

don't know much about her. There are other candidates I'd put ahead of her though.

Just pointing out how this would impact the orangeatang.

and I'm not a huge Oprah fan; haven't seen any of her shows or anything for decades.

I feel like Oprah values her privacy too much to run for office.

NO Oprah, please just stick to endorsing whomever the nominee is.

basically any of the candidates who ran in the primaries last round. We have plenty of other great choices. Lets use one.

She'd put Jenny McCarthy as HHS secy, Dr. Oz as Surgeon General, and John of God as presidential physician. And we'd all be seeing a lot more of Dr. Phil, presidential marriage counselor, and Deepak Chopra, no doubt science advisor.

Oprah speech last night sent you on tirade more than Fire and Fury did the President, I wonder why that is?

The one that will chill you to the bone is Oprah's support of John of God, Brazilian megachurch scammer and fucking psychic surgeon!!! He claims he can cure cancer!!!

And of course, there's always anti-vaccination Jenny McCarthy, and pro-AltMed-everything Dr. Oz, and Dr. Phil, who once told Oprah that he was the worst marriage counselor on the planet. What does Oprah promote him as? That's right, a fucking marriage counselor. Don't get me started about Deepak Chopra.

Oprah is a menace!

That is my strong opposition. Yet we see it all over DU today.

I don't give a damn about her entertainment shows, or where she appears. However, knowing about her positions on some rather important topics relating to science and medicine, I have nothing but revulsion to those positions. It seems that not many are even aware of it. Yet they seemingly want her to run for president.

I intend to disabuse them of the opinion that Oprah Winfrey is somehow all puppies and goodness. She supports, and has supported some pretty hideous people and positions. As I have said here, that excludes her as a candidate for anything. Some people see only the puppies in spite of the facts.

their crap and helped produce spinoff programming as well.

If you're all knowing, then I expect to see you running for POTUS. If not, why don't you just listen, for once. It's a healthier strategy vs damaging everyone that you personally disapprove of who is even considering a run. That is, unless you prefer to see Republicans in office?

You should know how to use Google.

Dr. Oz's testimony before Congress on his quackery was well documented as was Oprah's previous promotion of him which enabled him to get his TV gig.

Dr. Phil likewise is clearly an Oprah creation, although the only thing he can be accused of is practicing marriage counseling after telling Oprah he was terrible at it.

Now Jenny McCarthy's appearances on Oprah speak for themselves and are well documented. Look for yourself and consider a world where people listened to McCarthy on Oprah and didn't get their kids vaccinated. I remember polio and measles!

And just Google "Oprah John of God" and be in awe at her blinkered idiocy in the face of an outright scam artist. Then Google just "John of God" to get the dirt on this gem of a human. (I am being sarcastic, there.)

Other suggested searches "Oprah The Secret". Yup, made up quantum woo-woo, too.

My intended damage is only aimed at its target, one horrible Oprah Winfrey, who if people listened to her would be unvaccinated and going to kooks like faith healers and Deepak Chopra for their cancers. Cancer surgery by psychic surgery? Really? Oprah supports it.

I wish to disabuse them of that opinion by exposing her long history of abject kookery. That is something of which too many here are apparently unaware.

I know much about Oprah's overt support of kooks and quacks. In this case, that is all that's necessary.

And yes, if she makes any move towards running for office, my tirades will continue. We don't want her anywhere near government.

And we all get a car !

She built a top rated show that lasted for 25 years.

She built a production studio.

She built a TV network, not to mention a fortune — all while encountering sexism and overcoming it.

She is decidedly not an idiot.

On the other hand, anyone who calls her that...

Do you mean like Donald Drumpf?

She is notably incurious (my most generous adjective). She supports abject quack medicine, which is the big deal killer for me. Anti-vaccination, the best life saving medical invention ever. Alternative medicine -- there is only one medicine, based on science. She even supports a psychic surgeon scammer from Brazil who claims he can cure cancer!!!

But because she's on the televisionary set, she gets a pass? Sheesh! One is tempted to say: And people wonder how we got Drumpf in the White House.

Ask yourself those questions when Oprah's in the White House and Dr. Oz is the Surgeon General. Or horrors, psychic surgeon John of God! Maybe Jenny McCarthy can become head of the CDC.

But John of God is okee-dokee with you.

I guess I better not run for the local school board, by your logic.

She promotes people and their products such as OZ and gave Phil his start. If she doesn't know what scam artists they are I do not want her to be President. I bet you don't condone what your cousin did, but was supportive.

She supports "The Secret" which is nothing more than demonstrable quantum woo-woo rubbish. Not surprisingly, Oprah also likes Deepak Chopra, the king of quantum woo-woo.

She promoted Dr. Oz, got him a TV program where his promotion of quack cures became so alarming that he was dragged before Congress to answer for it.

She never rescinded her support for anti-vaccination idiot Jenny McCarthy. Vaccines, which save lives. Oprah is against them, apparently.

And of course, then there's John of God, the cream of the crop of Oprah woo-woo. Go ahead and Google him. He does faith healing and psychic surgery. He claims he cures cancer. He has a megachurch in Brazil. He's very wealthy. Oh! And by the way, he's a fraud because psychic surgery and faith healing is always a fraud. But Oprah's a big fan girl.

Oprah has a long and storied record. And it's all well documented.

Some will not forget the horrible evil she has done in her name on her way to fame and fortune.

It's Oz, Jenny McCarthy, and John of God that are dangerous. And by association, Oprah, of course, since she supports all of them.

Thanks for the response.

As fine a human being as Oprah is, we need someone with some executive experience IN GOVERNMENT to recover from the Trump shit-show.

And am impressed with the person she has become.

Our world is so upside down now, all I can say is ... you go, Oprah!

She is empathic to society and knows so much more than her detractors can understand.

What would that be and how do you know?

How would you not know?

but I am beginning to wonder.

The Halo Effect fallacy-people who are successful in one industry are automatically expected to be successful in another industry.

The Blank Slate irrationality-find someone with little to no experience in politics to become the top political leader because anyone with experience will have made some enemies or have some "baggage."

Enough with the TV celebs running on their recognition!

people are so gullible

I’d prefer someone with political experience. If she’s interested in gaining political experience why not run for a lower office first.

To scare Trump

If she was serious,this is not the way it would go.

This is a Jedi level troll of Trump, IMO.

Let’s be honest, running for POTUS, let alone being POTUS is a shitty job. I seriously doubt Oprah has any real interest in attempting to take it on.

However, you have to admit it’s fun to think of Trump freaking out about the thought of being beaten by Oprah. Imagine all the insecurities that are racing through his little misogynistic, racist head right now?

named Kamala Harris or Kristen Gillibrand.

Those two lost my support in their immature rush to pronounce Al Franken as unfit.

Oprah has demonstrated that she is a formidable woman in many ways. "BUT, COME ON" as Mr. Obama likes to say. Oprah is not qualified to be the President of The United States. The end.

Celebrity worship is killing this country. Started with reality tv, now the populace seems to think government if entertainment.

Swell, just swell. Waiting for evidence of the groundswell of public opinion, demanding that Democrats be just as stupid as the Republicans were in 2016.

What this country needs for President is a TV personality !

What could possibly go wrong?

Oprah isn't running. This is a dumb fantasy.

This reminds me of 2016, when people could not let go of the "OMG! Elizabeth Warren is going to announce any day now!" dream, despite her repeatedly saying she wasn't running.
As a result, all the oxygen in the room was sucked up, no one would consider anyone else, and we were left with the lousy primary choice we had between a damaged Clinton and a weird, not-ready-for-primetime Bernie as the alternative.
Had people not sat around waiting for Warren to change her mind, we could have been encouraging someone like Brown or Franken to enter the field, or maybe even convinced Biden to get in after all. Instead, people were still talking up already-declined Warren well into late fall of 2015.

There are plenty of good people who can run, and obsessing on Oprah riding in a white horse and saving the day is wasting energy that could be better devoted to getting behind someone who might actually enter the race.

Always keep in mind that "requesting anonymity in order to speak freely" also gives freedom to speak untruthfully. And what's to stop a leaker from ORDERING a source to leak information anonymously?


rocktivity

In proving than ANYONE can be elected president, we've also proved that it doesn't mean that ANYONE can Be president.

Stop this before it gets legs.

Worked fine the last time, right?

Ok so I am going on the record and saying right now, I will NOT support any actor/ sports figure / business millionaire for president, vice president or government position. PERIOD...

Oprah Winfrey has ZERO credibility to run for president.

How about a politician who is knowledgeable, a serious person, and an accomplished statesman?

Could we give that a try?

I don't like Jerry on everything, but at least he knows how things work.