Will Oprah go for it and beat Trump in the next US presidential election.

Oldtree

Permabear wrote: »

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Political experience us clearly no longer a prerequisite for being president of the USA. A sad future we must now accept. Who has the bigger red button will decide the next election, and unbeknowns to Donald, Ophra is having an enormous one made in secret.

AllGunsBlazing

Walt Disney's cryogenically frozen head for President! Uncle Walt in 2020!

Dagenham Dave

More chat show hosts should move into politics.
Pamela Ballentine for First Minister!!!

Oldtree

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Walt Disney's cryogenically frozen head for President! Uncle Walt in 2020!

Walter White has a very good chance should he decide to run! Everybody loves him.

Hector Savage

Hector Savage wrote: »

I agree, but we all know the US political system is broken, and a wife of a former popular president with I'd imagine far less skeletons in her closet has a much bigger chance.

Dave says it perfectly

Rumpy Pumpy

Eckhart Tolle as Secretary of Defence

daheff

She wont. If she did she (like Meryl Streep) wouldnt be able to stay up on their sanctimonious high horses.

Too much baggage that Hollywood is pretending isnt there. Politicos would have no problem bringing it up (eg all smiles & happy with weinstein in golden globes 2016/ wearing black 2017)

https://www.google.ie/search?q=oprah+weinstein+golden+globes+2016&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiks7zyr83YAhUBDOwKHY0KBNgQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=984#imgrc=o4sBSjNZEZeBDM:

Nerdlingr

Heard her speech on the radio last night. She actually sounds a lot like Obama in the way he delivered many of his speeches. Delayed, sort of broken up pronunciation of sentences with abrupt endings.

c_man

Next President will be Tom Hanks running as an independent.

jackboy

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Heard her speech on the radio last night. She actually sounds a lot like Obama in the way he delivered many of his speeches. Delayed, sort of broken up pronunciation of sentences with abrupt endings.

And she says nothing in her speeches, just like Obama. Although at this stage saying nothing is better than what Trump says.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

No, she won't run; but yes she would win. There's unlikely to be evidence that she used her personal email account for politicaly sensitive messages.

4068ac1elhodqr

She might run, but would likely get defeated at the final hurdle.
Would face serious competition from a trio of female Democrats,
(Harris/Warre/Gillibrand) never mind the Rep's under a booming economy.

Saying that, the markets have her currently as 2nd favourite (after Trump) for 2020 at about 10/1.
If you exclude he media hype that numeral can be multiplied tenfold.

Bear in mind few of us were backing Trump late Summer of '16 at 25/1.
Even on the day he was 10/1 for a short period.
So Oprah chances are thus indicated as strong, but it's still a long while away.

One other possibility (independent candidates) could be the dreaded 'all knowing, all seeing: Zuckerberg'.

Greybottle

tonycascarino wrote: »

He's actually a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln. It's better than the hypocrite Oprah or sourpuss Obama going for it anyway.

Danny Dyer is a direct descendant of Edward II, but I'm not sure he'd be what the Royal Family are looking for if they needed a replacement.

She is - or was - good mates with Donald Trump, she had him on the show a few times and was often pictured around town with him. Nice publicity for Donald.

Could be interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsusrsuMuV0

Chrongen

BillyBobBS wrote: »

She is wasting her time if she runs. Trumps doing a brilliant job as President, economy soaring, jobs up, stock market up, starting to fix the absolute farce of a immigration system etc..

Its the economy stupid.

What jobs are up? What the hell are you smoking? You fawn over this clown like a lovesick school girl. You'd give Trump credit for the sun rising when the guy hasn't a clue what he's doing and is pitifully out of his depth.

Chrongen

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Fianna Fail/Fine Gael. /argument

Look at the clowns we continue to put into power here and look at the ever worsening problems we have in our society. We cannot say much.

At least there is more than the Coke or Pepsi, McDonalds or Burger King binary choice that is US politics.

Chrongen

Permabear wrote: »

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Who are they?

Mutant z

Just because she's a tv petsonality doesnt mean she will be a good president perhaps its best to leave it all to politicians who actually know what they're doing.

Hector Bellend

Maggie Marie wrote: »

She likes her Mickey Donald’s too.

She has a big "mucky d" head on her

Agricola

If running Hillary was an own goal last time, this would be a disaster. The democrats have to run someone who has a chance of not only collecting all the traditional blue votes but hoovering up a large amount of the ones who turned to Trump in 2016 and all the undecideds too. A female black billionaire ultraliberal is a bit of a risky ticket, much riskier than Hillary was. And that's not even getting into the fact she's a complete political greenhorn.

I don't think it'll happen anyway. Oprah has a cushy life allowing her to pontificate whenever she likes without having to back any of it up. Unlike Trump she's smart enough to have an idea of what being the president entails for her and her family. Who in her position would take that on....

ebbsy

She w'ont win because they w'ont vote a woman in.

cantdecide

Old white racists "they just have to die".

Interesting quote for someone they say may be president.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD7QfC0Xjwk

BorneTobyWilde

Biden is a bit of a weird child whisperer/

Jimbob1977

Might I suggest the following cabinet for Oprah:

Vice President: Meryl Streep

Secretary for Health: Doctor Dre, M.D.

Attorney General: Roman Polanski

Secretary for Education: Kim Kardashian

Secretary of State: George Clooney

Chairman of the Federal Reserve: Jay-Z

Secretary for Health: Richard Simmons

Press Secretary: Anderson Cooper

4068ac1elhodqr

Think she interviewed Joe Bid recently for one of her tv/radio shows, must have gotten the notion to run since then.

Basically she's interviewed anyone of note over the last few decades,
and with around 40m Tw' followers (same as Trump), has some sphere of influence.

But what will the 2nd fav to win POTUS2020 her slogan be? 'tear down them walls'
{and let Mexico saturate the southern states, free Espanola classes for everyone}

BorneTobyWilde

In places like Denmark and Norway it's always decent honest people who rise to power, not the case anywhere else.

kneemos

Why didn't she make her I see the light speech several decades ago?
Might have made an actual difference then.

ceadaoin.

Sleepy wrote: »

To have gotten as far as she has in Hollywood, there are skeletons in her closet and I don't think bible belt America will be as quick to "forgive the sins" a black woman from the wrong side of the tracks who's made good as they were to forgive an orange man born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Read this last night. I had forgotten all about the abuse allegations in her school. Funny how that is never brought up anymore


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/09/oprah-might-run-for-president-we-did-the-opposition-research-for-you/

kneemos

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Read this last night. I had forgotten all about the abuse allegations in her school. Funny how that is never brought up anymore


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/09/oprah-might-run-for-president-we-did-the-opposition-research-for-you/

Looks like Mother Theresa compared to Trump in fairness.

Ralf and Florian

My main issue with Oprah is her providing a platform for anti-vaxers, new age hocus pocus and that quack Dr Phil.

Noel82