2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOprah Winfrey says, "I'm with her." Oprah has only ever endorsed 1 Presidential candidate:
Barack Obama.
She also indicated she'd be willing to campaign for Hillary.
Welcome aboard, Oprah!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/oprah-winfrey-endorses-hillary-clinton-president/story?id=39891652&cid=abcn_fb
The moment came when, referencing Winfreys political activism on behalf of then-candidate Barack Obama, Spencer asked whether Winfrey would get behind one of the candidates in the current presidential race.
Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey Challenge Men to 'Be Better'
I will get behind the one. Im with her. I have to say Im with her, Winfrey said.
Im With Her is an official slogan of Clintons presidential campaign.
But Winfrey wasnt done there. She added: I would also say, that regardless of your politics, you cannot be a woman in the world and not see that this is a monumental time for women breaking the ceiling. Talk about breaking the ceiling!
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Who cares who she endorses.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)Her endorsement will be far more meaningful than, for example, Cornel West's.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)That's her decision to make, isn't it?
Stay classy.
CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)then this thing is OVER!!!
snap snap snap
scscholar
(2,902 posts)That's mean.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)Nowhere did QC call her fat!! jesus christ.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)doc03
(35,295 posts)pnwmom
(108,955 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Hope she is to the left of Bill, and she seems to be.
LiberalFighter
(50,783 posts)Not on everything. But Obama wasn't everywhere I wanted him to be either. I had to trust he was doing the right thing based on what he had to deal with. For instance if circumstances had been different with the health care like Max Baucus was not in charge. We weren't dealing with tight numbers in both the House and Senate.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)the policies that were to the right of Nixon were probably political vs how the Clinton's believed...and the atmosphere at the time was right wing...lets hope the pendulum is swinging OUR way!
TO THE LEFT!
LiberalFighter
(50,783 posts)The President needs to have good Democrats in Congress that will support him when s/he has good plans and for Congress to push him when s/he needs to be pushed.
It also needs to happen at the local and state government level. They need to used like baseball does with their farm system.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)for the Children's Defense fund. That's where her heart has always been.
But she has resigned herself to working through the system, and that means compromising to get things done -- but she keeps pushing leftwards.
If you look back before Bernie even started to run, at her first speeches, you will see comments that she is sounding more liberal than people expected. That has been her direction all along. The positive part of Bernie's campaign is that he has demonstrated that there definitely is a thirst for this.
The negative side is that he's spent so long campaigning against her, and implying that she's corrupt because she's part of the system. He's part of the system, too, but he never acknowledges that.
Chathamization
(1,638 posts)On domestic issues, I imagine she's going to be more or less like your standard national-level Democrat, which isn't that exciting but also not terrible. I'm a bit worried about her foreign policy, though. She's said (to give one example) that she would have been more militarily aggressive than Obama on Syria, and I don't think it's a coincidence that the Syrian ceasefire and Iranian nuclear deal were worked out under Kerry, not Clinton.
On domestic issues most of the progress is probably going to be happening at the state and local levels. A better candidate would certainly help, but Clinton will be good enough to see some progress made.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)She recommended a lot of crappy books too.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)for me - NOT.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)the Obama hater.
840high
(17,196 posts)a most interesting person. Oprah - not so much.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... whatever you want to think.
panader0
(25,816 posts)said he would tag Oprah as his running mate.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)eastwestdem
(1,220 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Difficult for women seeking to rise, thanks Oprah.
longship
(40,416 posts)Oprah is a shameful, ignorant person. She promotes utter rubbish.
This endorsement is a condemnation.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)what it is possible to achieve.
No human is perfect and Oprah is human. But she has accomplished enormous things despite the very difficult challenges she faced as a child.
longship
(40,416 posts)The extent that she supports Dr. "I was the worst marriage counselor ever" Phil (who does marriage counseling on Oprah's show), Dr. Oz (who was dragged before Congress to answer for his quackery)
Witness:
And then there's her her support for John Edward.
Psychics? Really psychics? More like psychotics!
Oprah Winfrey is an utter shame. She enriches herself with abject kookery.
Bees!