Oprah for President

With all these funny people coming out lately in support of Donald Trump's short-trumpeted run at the Republic presidential nomination (in which he's slowly losing steam after the long-form Obama birth records were published, and as his arguments get stupider and less coherent, and as no real Republican talking heads are supporting it), I decided I would begin a campaign to write-in Oprah Winfrey as the Democratic nominee to run in 2016 after President Obama finishes his 2nd term.

I think Oprah would make a great president and represents a great juxtaposition against the sideshow that is Donald Trump's lunacy. Let's compare the two. Both are TV personalities, filthy rich, and reside in large cities. That's probably - for all I know - where the similarities end. Oprah is a black woman, who may or may not be homosexual - but has never been married and doesn't have any biological children. She also has lots of confirmed friends who are also black - some female, some gay, some both, some all 3. She is a (former) actress who hosts a TV show where she exposes, shares, educates, helps, and gives away lots of free shit - regardless of who you are. She doesn't need to know you, but if you come to see her show, she just might reward you with something, even if you're already rich or unfortunately not. If that wasn't enough on which to judge her drive and perseverance, she has parlayed her successful show into an equally thriving production company amid other dynamic business and personal ventures - those results don't lie.

Donald Trump is a white, male, trust-fund baby. He has been married and divorced numerous times - exhibiting a pattern of reckless behavior that also includes public on-air tirades against well-known homosexual female TV personality Rosie O'Donnell, among other public, on-air tirades of various sorts. Trump, like Oprah, has a TV show - the big difference is that Trump's is a reality game show in which the grand prize is one (kinda) job for one normal person. He also has celebrities appear on his game show, albeit the prize is ultimately given to charity but rest assured there is a marketable, profitable motive for doing these TV shows where - outside of the charitable contributions - they wholly affect (or help) no one. he has also been roasted by Comedy Central, which is the highest honor which can be bestowed upon a media-whore clown such as Trump.

I always hear how great a business man Trump is - quite the contrary. He inherited a large sum of his early wealth from his father and invested it into real estate in an already bustling city that had been a real estate giant long before he came around - he in essence did not create anything! Also, his business ventures have not always been lucrative. It is highly publicized that some of his hotels and casinos were mismanaged and fell into bankruptcy - which in turn almost bankrupted Trump personally. A guy with that lack of real business savvy is not the right answer for a country already struggling with economic development and sustainability. Plus he donates a great deal of money to largely Democratic causes which contradicts a platform he's running on of purely Republican issues - you know: tax cuts for the rich, opposing gay marriage, and starting wars over oil - top American priorities .

He has also become a master of deception in seemingly hiding his male pattern baldness for an immeasurable number of years underneath a very convincing hairpiece. The irony here is that he recently joined the so-called "birther" movement in accusing President Obama of also using deceit to fool the American people into thinking he was born in the US (see the analogy) - when everyone knows (including hardcore Republican pundit Ann Coulter) that the President and his administration has proven his birth location and thus legal eligibility to be President many of times over. For the record, did you know John McCain was not born inside the US - but in US territory in Panama - and was allowed to run for President? I wonder if that would have spiraled into this same witch hunt had HE been elected - probably not since it's not an issue of race and the Dems aren't bigoted by definition.

So, if Oprah were to run in 2016 you could check her birth records, but her track record speaks for itself. She built an empire out of nothing and continues to use her success to promote the common good. It's no secret that I want Barack Obama to finish an 8-year term as president, with a NEW Congress in 2012 and through 2014 to clean up the mess of the 2010 midterm election and have the opportunity to finish what he started. However, if and when given the chance, I would certainly like to see what kind of campaign Oprah could run and if promising (which I'm sure it would be), she would easily secure my vote against almost any contender.

Pass the torch!