Oprah for President?? Some dude has been pushing for Oprah

[opihimoimoi]

to either run or be drafted. She has rejected the notion and has threatened the dude to stop it...but he is plowing on.

Has Bush set the Bar so low that even untrained, inexperienced peeps can run? Damn. Case in point is Ahnold and what he has done for Cali....not a leader at all.

[Clark2008]

1. First, the whole point of a real democracy is to allow untrained,

inexperienced people to run for office - any office. The only litmus test for president is that he/she be 35 years old and born in this country.

It should be up to the VOTER to determine who is and is not competent enough to actually HOLD the office.

Second, the guy should just give up. I wouldn't want to run for office if I was Oprah, either.

[opihimoimoi]

4. I feel they made the rules for over 200 years ago. Look what happened.

recently....

If ya can Fool the PPl, Ya can RULE....

We got scammed and conned....

[SheilaT]

2. And what, exactly,the difference between this

and those who are pushing Al Gore to run, or for him to be drafted?

Other than the fact that Al Gore has run and lost before, and Oprah successfully fought cattle growers who sought to ruin her, I don't see a lot.

[opihimoimoi]

3. I don't see Gore puting up a fight....

[lildreamer316]

5. He didn't lose.

The supreme court voted him out.

[SheilaT]

6. He has said quite clearly

he doesn't intend to run.

And Oprah hasn't announced a candidacy either.

The part about the Supreme Court has nothing to do with this. In both cases, people who could be spending time working for actual, viable, willing candidates are being wasted on a pipe dream. The main difference is that this guy in Kansas City is pretty much a lone eagle, and in the Gore situation there are hundreds, maybe thousands out there who could instead be working to elect real, actual, declared candidates this year, in 2006, not spinning their wheels on something that will never happen.