Discussion: Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Speech Sparks Calls For 2020 Presidential Run

No offense but as much as I like Oprah I really don’t want to see another billionaire TV star and business person who’s never run for any office prior in the White House in my lifetime, whether she’s a woman or not. But that’s just me.

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Yes, our current inexperienced celebrity POTUS is going so well, clearly this needs to be the new model for both parties.

For fuck sake, we’ve lost our minds.

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liked x 1 million. Please no more TV stars - please.

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Oprah is very smart, very well informed, very popular, and very stable.

She is not, however, suited to be president.

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Oprah, with all due respect…

Please… don’t.

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Godddamnit!!! No. More. Fucking. Celebrity. Candidates! There are plenty of “boring” Dems in Congress right now or governors who actually know howthefuck to legislate. Jeeezus.

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Yep. And govern. And lead. And have ideas about the welfare of the country and the people therein. And have knowledge of our Constitution and Rule of Law.

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Nope. Celebrity fame is just that. Thanks anyway.

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and, they didn’t promote the careers of Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil . . . as far as I’m concerned, Oprah lost her credibility a long time ago.

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I will take a pass on that idea. No disrespect to Oprah.
Great way to have your history and legacy destroyed by the political monsters of our time.
Just keep doing what you do and enjoy.
Support is needed for those capable of dealing with political war against the red state.

And don’t forget “The Secret”

Per your point, Oprah is responsible for a tremendous amount of misinformation and promotion of whacky non evidence-based ideas. She appears to be very gullible in what she has promoted.

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Goodness. I hope the DNC does not run with this. It’s ridiculous. No wonder we are not taken seriously. She seems to be a nice lady and all, but President?

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I couldn’t agree more. It was a wonderful, rousing, heartfelt, passionate speech, doesn’t mean she or anyone else who gives a similar speech wants to run for office. Why should she? She’s got the life she wants, and it would invite hoards of anonymous and invisible mouth breathers to come out and trash her. We’re looking too hard for a savior. It won’t be Oprah.

@tommie So far it’s adoring celebrities who loved hearing a speech, and it was a good one, but no DNC interest is ever going to immerge or for that matter a populist movement. “Draft Oprah.” I don’t think so.

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Please no.

Her “qualifications” are what? She’s a household name because daytime talk had no competition until Netflix? She’s extremely rich? She says reasonable things?

I do not want a celebrity president. I want a competent, inspired bureaucrat who is prepared to fight the Corporate Party for the soul of the nation.

Famous Lady President would be a pyrrhic victory.

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I’ll take Kamala Harris over Oprah any day.

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Yep, but the brain-dead media are stoking this story about her Presidenting this morning all based on one speech. They still haven’t learned a fucking thing. Liking something someone says on TV doesn’t mean that person should be President of the United States. The media continues to be a stupid, infotainment-focused appendage of the greater media environment, but it hasn’t served us well as a country. That much they should have learned by now. The real question is how many honest true journalists and reporters will fall for this type of stunt again.

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What shocks me is the number of reasonably sane people who are jumping on the Oprah-for- President bandwagon. She can give a rousing speech (although her original sincerity seems to have been replaced with self-important screaming as of late) and has made a lot of $$, but that doesn’t make her presidential material.

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Amen, amen, amen . . .

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