What did Winfrey do to help Hillary become President?

[gopiscrap]

[jrthin]

1. Nothing! She sat on her hands. nt

[gopiscrap]

2. yup, that is the point I am trying to make

for all we know she may not even be a Democrat or like in Bernie Sanders case a Socialist voting with the Dems

[brush]

27. You have no idea. Oprah has always been very generous, and she is a Democrat.

[zipplewrath]

3. In all fairness

She's always been a light touch on politics. She made like one endorsement of Obama and then basically walked away. There is some belief that she can hurt as much as help. As popular as she is with her audience, that is still a small minority of the voting population. And she can easily be as much a lighting rod as anything.

That said, none of us really know what she does behind the scenes.

[Ohiogal]

5. The RWNJ's can't stand her

So there's that. I think she'd be too polarizing.

Then again, what decent, intelligent, person would they like? LOL. Dummy Donnie is more their speed.

[SFnomad]

6. Yes, let's make our decision based upon if they're polorizing to the RWNJs n/t

[safeinOhio]

4. Sure is making trump

Nervous.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. NAFT

Not

A

Fucking

Thing

[mcar]

8. What is with the attacks on Winfrey?

She gave a great acceptance speech last night. Some are buzzing about her political prospects. So what? It's a long way to 2020. We need to focus on 2018.

And stop attacking possible Democratic contenders.

[Skittles]

12. maybe

people are just sick of egotistical celebrities thinking they have what it takes to be PRESIDENT

[politicaljunkie41910]

14. She's a real billionnaire. I think she has her ego in check and doesn't need to or want to run for

President. If she chose to, I'mese someone convinced her she had to do if for her country, since running for President means she would have to give up her privacy, and I think she's a relatively private person. She'd have to work really hard because she wouldn't take the job and then sit on her butt and watch Fox and Friends all day like the Dotard does.

So give it a rest. Stop hating on her. She's done nothing to deserve it.

[Skittles]

15. give it a rest? NO

NO MORE OF THIS BULLSHIT

[LisaM]

35. Has her ego in check? She is on every cover of O.

She also named her TV network after herself. She has every right to do these thing, but those are hardly the acts of someone with her ego in check.

[mcar]

41. Maybe she was just giving a good speech

The rest was speculation that she has put to rest.

[elleng]

28. Yes

[Cobalt Violet]

38. we don't need a coronation.

Seems to be the media has already decide who our nominee for 2020 will be.

[mcar]

40. So why attack Winfrey for the media's nonsense?

She's already said she's not interested in running. I saw some pretty vicious attacks on her here,not on the media.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Well she has the JPRs screaming identity politics

Guess she doesn't just annoy the far right.

Truth is though I think we're done with non-politicians for a while in this country.

[RhodeIslandOne]

26. If she pisses those idiots off, good.

That's right, I called them idiots. Because they'd nominate Susan Saranwrap in a second if they could.

[progressoid]

10. Heh heh heh.

[Skittles]

11. not a fucking thing

BOTH TIMES

[Beaverhausen]

13. You know she was an early Obama supporter in 2008, right?

Why the vitriol for her?

[Skittles]

16. the question was about HILLARY

[Beaverhausen]

18. Yes, and you seem mad that she supported Obama in 2008

I know she can’t do anything right for some here. Whatever.

[Skittles]

19. not everyone loves her

and not everyone would be thrilled to have yet another rich celebrity wanting to be president

[Beaverhausen]

20. Shes nothing like Trump. In any way

And so far she hasn’t said she’s running. But have at it. Enjoy your hate fest.

[Skittles]

25. LOL

you have zero clue

done here

[cwydro]

21. This. nt

[Takket]

17. she endorsed her. don't know anything more than that

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/16/politics/oprah-clinton-endorsement/index.html

[Texasgal]

22. She has made a statement

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that she is NOT running! Can we stop this nonsense now?

[jalan48]

23. She gave a wonderful and uplifting speech last night. Why can't we just congratulate her for this

and forget the President stuff for a few days?

[True Dough]

31. There is no "candidate" that will make everyone happy

It's not clear whether Oprah will run for the nomination or not, but I agree with you. I could do without 50 Oprah threads a day for the next while.

We have evil Donny to worry about first and foremost.

[Dave Starsky]

24. Nothing. n/t

[lunamagica]

29. Absolutely nothing

[lunasun]

30. https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/743556345606057985?langen

Link to tweet

?lang=en

[True Dough]

32. Oh look!

Somebody who did a little online research. Thank you, lunasun. Maybe all the people who so quickly condemned Oprah can remove their feet from their mouths!

[lunasun]

33. Doubtful as they are on a high roll but I just wanted to post what the real Hillary's response

was to Oprah's public endorsement . Some comments are going as far as to paint a picture of an Oprah diss of Clinton during the election

[hexola]

34. Saw a clip tonight - asked her about being Trumps VP...she said "I'm with her..."

Not sure how vocal she was about HRC - but there is this...

Apparently she never endorsed anyone until BHO.

[Jarqui]

36. She came out for Hillary

And here:
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/oprah-winfrey-on-clinton-230148

“The reason why I haven’t been vocal, other than saying I’m with her, is because I didn’t know what to say that could actually pierce through all the noise and the chaos and the disgusting vitriol that’s going on and actually be heard,” Winfrey told the Dallas-based pastor T.D. Jakes, according to an excerpt of the hourlong sitdown to air next Thursday.

“But there really is no choice, people. All the people sitting around talking about they can’t decide. This is what I what I wanna say — wait a minute,” she said, silencing Jakes to make her point. “I hear this all the time. You get into conversations — and there’s not a person in this room who hasn’t been in this same conversation — where people say, ‘I just don’t know if I like her.’”

But you don’t have to, Winfrey said, stressing that’s not the question voters should be asking.

“She’s not coming over to your house! You don’t have to like her,” she said. “You don’t have to like her. Do you like this country? Do you like this country? You better get out there and vote. Do you like the country? Do you like freedom and liberty? Do you like this country? OK. Do you like democracy or do you want a demagogue?”

[octoberlib]

37. I didn't see her at all during Hillary's campaign but I could've missed it.

What baffles me is that Grover Norquist, Bill Kristol , John Podhoretz and a lot of other conservatives adore her. Maybe because of her economic views.

Link to tweet

Oprah on the death tax:
“I think it’s so irritating that once I die, 55 percent of my money goes to the United States government…You know why it’s so irritating? Because you already paid nearly 50 percent when the money was earned.” Archived by NAM,
Dec.11, 2007.

Link to tweet

[oberliner]

39. Oprah endorses: 'I'm with her'

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/16/politics/oprah-clinton-endorsement/index.html