Oprah 2020

[BoSoxGal]

I'd be perfectly content with her as our first woman Prez - a REAL self-made billionaire with countless successes under her belt and a true altruistic nature.



http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/08/media/o ... index.html

Sources: Oprah Winfrey 'actively thinking' about running for president

[Big RR]

If Trump showed us one thing, I think it's that we need a president who has experience in government and knows how things run--we need a head of government, not a CEO or personality, however appealing (s)he may be (there are a lot of other charateristics we need in a successful president, but I think this is number 1). Even a well intentioned outsider is likely to either screw things up, or give too much power to his/her unelected subordinates, or both. I have nothing against Oprah, but I think there have to be much better choices (and FWIW, despite the golden globes comments of Seth Meyer, it's not tom Hanks either).

[RayThom]

I feel Oprah is a great personality but not a great fit for President. I feel she does her best work speaking out in support of various issues -- like a spokesperson for women's rights. I easily see her getting bogged down in the reality of the job. The reality of building OWN, and her mismanagement along the way, has really shook her to the core.

Though I see her doing a FAR better job than Trump, she, too, is a business owner. As such, has a different management style than what the office of POTUS demands. Until she does a stint as a governor somewhere, she is, and will be, horribly under qualified as a president. One "Celebrity Appresident" has proven to be way too much already. Let's quit the "celebrity as president" nonsense.

That said, depending on the field of candidates, she might be the best one out there. Oh, and anything but Hillary.

[Gob]

Madness, a woman who is best known for her chat show, and saccharine "car giving" stunts, plus a few film roles?

Has the US not learned ANYTHING from the Trump / Chimp / Actor presidencies?

Or is the idea of a stable politician, with good management skills , and international repute, too outre for election? (you got close with Obama, but "fine words butter no parsnips" as they say.)

[Burning Petard]

I do not agree with Gob. Oprah is much more than her public persona with tv give-aways. She IS a successful business manager with fingers in many different operations independent of tv. It seems to me she does accept responsibility without needing constant yes-men or fall-guys.

BUT ! ! !

I repeat what others have said, Have we learned nothing from Trump? At the beginning of my job experience, "Business Management" was the key to real world success. A good manager could run anything. A CEO was a CEO whether the industry was making police pistols or building family recreation centers. [at one time Smith & Wesson was part of the same conglomerate as AMF bowling lanes] There came to be an awareness that maybe it takes more than that. Success in building an apartment investment company in New York city is not the skill required to run an airline, a casino, or sell steaks. Running a government is different from all of these things. The one thing Trump has established is that the skills it takes to get the job, is in a different universe from the skills it takes to do the job.

I think Oprah may have the skills to get the job [Hillary Clinton did not] but I am skeptical about her skill set to do the job.

Herbert Hoover was a crackerjack engineer and project manager. No so great as president.

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[Joe Guy]

I hope that Trump's election isn't the beginning of a trend to elect celebrities for president and other positions. If so, Trump has not only managed to destroy our image to the rest of the world now, he will have turned it into an ongoing nightmare of a reality show.

That depends of course on whether or not we survive his presidency.

[rubato]

Oprah would be a great candidate but not a great President. While she is intelligent and articulate she does not have a background in government/public policy.


yrs,

rubato

[RayThom]

This just in:
Nation’s Progressives Suddenly In Favor Of Electing TV Personalities As President

http://babylonbee.com/news/nations-prog ... president/

[Big RR]

You gotta love the reference to "millions of democrats", not to mention confusing democrats and progressives.

[Econoline]

• WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump issued a stark warning to the nation on Monday that, if elected President, Oprah Winfrey would force Americans to read.
  
  “This is a woman who, every chance she got, told people to join her book club,” Trump told reporters. “If she were President, you better believe that she would make every single American join that book club.”
  
  Claiming that Winfrey “never met a book she didn’t like,” Trump accused her of planning to institute an “individual book mandate,” which would require non-reading Americans to pay as much as two thousand dollars a year for refusing to read a book.
  
  “People were worried about Obama coming to their homes and taking away their guns,” Trump said. “Oprah will come to your homes and leave books there, which is far, far worse.”
  
  Joining Trump in his remarks was the Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, who warned about the dangers of Winfrey’s pro-book agenda.
  
  “I am a firm believer in school choice,” DeVos said. “And central to that is the choice not to read.”

[Bicycle Bill]

That said, depending on the field of candidates, she might be the best one out there.

Now that's one frightening statement right there ... and what makes it even more frightening is that there's more than just a grain of truth to it.

Oh, and anything but Hillary.

You already got "anything but Hillary" — and you can see for yourself how that's working out for us.

-"BB"-

[Long Run]

She's always been admired, in part, for her common sense and good judgment.

Oprah Winfrey has told the US magazine InStyle that she does not "have the DNA" to be US president.

She had been widely touted as a future Democratic contender for the 2020 elections after a rousing speech at the Golden Globes earlier this month.

But she told InStyle: "I've always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowing what I could do and what I could not.

"And so it's not something that interests me."