If Oprah Winfrey Isn't President Material, Who Is?

If Oprah Winfrey isn't qualified to
be president, then no one is.

I've tried for a few days to listen objectively and understand the views of many people that I respect as it relates to the conversation of Oprah Winfrey running for president, but I simply can not bite my tongue on this topic any longer as a deep divide is building between those who say she can and those who think it's over her head.

Either too many of us are lost in the sauce and simply can't look back at history to determine the ingredients of a good president, or too many of you skeptics have grown weary of Donald Trump's act and simply haven't done the same thing.

Sure, it may seem reasonable for people that are in politics to actually aspire towards them and to chase after a Political Science or Law degree along the way despite knowing of those who arrived in the realm of politics after traversing various non-traditional pathways. Ronald Reagan is fairly famous as an actor turned president, but Reagan is also credited for several years as a Governor before taking on the bigger role.

Apparently, Governors are great options for future presidents even though the history of Governors who have done it is no more or less flattering than the history of former Senators turned president or any other professional person who pursued politics later in life. The notion that Colorado saloon owner, John Hickenlooper, is now a worthy presidential candidate begs the question of what made him worthy to be Governor?

I know, I know. Hickenlooper was the mayor of Denver before becoming the Governor of Colorado, but what exactly made that saloon owner worthy of running a city as booming as Denver was? How could a business owner truly understand the complexities of local government given the complex nature of running any city in America? Nothing we learn in civics gave us the nuances of local government that are much more complex and varying than the simple framework of our nations Constitution.

And what about my dear friend Senator Rhonda Fields, also of Colorado? She became a member of the state House of Representatives before winning her Senate seat on the back of grief and being the champion for her late son Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiance, Vivian Wolfe, who were both murdered by gang members as they prepared to testify to a gang murder they witnessed. 

What made Rhonda worthy of such a serious and important job that she had ZERO experience with?

Her heart.

In reality, the only thing that any person who has ever succeeded in the role of the president ever really brought to the table was an undying love for this beautiful country of ours.  I fashion my statement that way to clarify between those who succeeded and those who failed at being the president.

I- and apparently a whole lot of other people- am not particularly interested in what a politician offers up as his or her list of qualifications as much as I am interested in why it is they want the job. The recent firestorm over the book "Fire and Fury" makes us further question whether Trump really wanted this job, although he won it by letting us all know that he wanted this job so he could Make America Great Again. I'm not exactly sure if I know why Hillary wanted the job. It could be my clouded memory or her foggy message.

If my memory is still useful, Barack Obama was considered the totally unqualified community organizer who hadn't served as a committee chair in the Senate before being pegged as "next up" on the back of his rousing DNC convention speech in 2004.

Once again, a rousing speaker has roused the masses into looking at her and saying to themselves, "now that lady could be our president". We did it to Michelle Obama and if my now overworked memory serves me right again, we did it to a very cool and dignified Hillary Clinton who handled her husband's infidelity crap in a way that made us see her in a presidential light. Did raising Bill and Chelsea actually make her worthy of a Senate seat in New York? Of course, it didn't. In fact, the Senate and Secretary of State thing were both positions of an unqualified person who was hoping to remove that stigma en route to a return visit to the White House.  Hillary killed those jobs she was previously unqualified for, so much so that the GOP needed to tag Benghazi to her and not the sitting president just to taint her record a bit.

The unifying aspect of every leader from Mayor to President that actually does the job well- and I'm not really interested in a conversation about electing more qualified hustlers to hustle us after we elect them- is that they were probably asked to lead, just like Oprah was, and they probably said yes because they love this country and would do anything to see it thrive including taking down of an orange baffoon if America needed her to answer that call.

Why do we blame the entertainers for being more believable
then the politicians we elect to deceive us over and over?

Now! If Oprah is no longer qualified to be president based on the merits of everything that I've just said.....no one is.

No really!! 

If Trump Falls, Twitter Will Become His Nixon Tapes

Waking up the first working day of the new year to another twit-parade of comments from our Twitter-In-Chief, Donald J. Trump, has me thinking about the value of his idiocracy of a presidency.

I would love to focus my attention on the scary international tweets Trump directed to start the year towards the instability in Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan where he felt the need to tweet threat the withholding of U.S. aid instead of just withholding it with back-channel admonition like Obama and others have done, but those feel like the very distractions that he intends them to be.

Trump seems focused on a lot of things to the potential exclusion of preparing for the November elections, elections that we can now describe as this year since 2018 is no longer some distant date of future political concern. 2018 is now, and NOW is the time for Republicans to focus on fighting off the Blue Wave of Democrats who are threatening to overtake Congress and pressure Trump in ways he can't fully understand based on his current Twitter focus. In between golfing and Tweeting, he probably hasn't seen recent reports about is plummeting poll numbers in Iowa

Reince Priebus, former RNC Chair, has seen the numbers and has sounded off recently on the immense risk Trump will face if he allows the Democrats to overtake the House and the Senate. But the Christmas push to pass an unpopular tax present for rich folks while blasting the credibility of FBI Special Investigator Robert Mueller and the entire FBI is starting to make curious observers wonder if Trump is feeling the heat of the investigation too much to focus on the other things that threaten his presidency even more than Mueller.

Despite the irony of Trump potentially committing the kind of crimes that could "Lock Him Up", America is not interested in locking up presidents anymore than it is in locking up the loser from a political campaign as some countries do.  For Trump to focus his energy on attacking losing political opponents and discrediting an investigation that will never result in jail time for the president- even if it might for his subordinates- proves he doesn't understand civics enough to see the clear off-ramps of immunity our laws have made to avoid jailing deposed presidents and embarrassing an entire nation in the process.

Trump also isn't civically aware enough to realize that losing a Republican majority in 2018 elections is even more dangerous than liquored up George Papadapolous who was reported to have kick-started the investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign, a report that debunks the recent Republican counter-claim of the Steel Dossier being the sole reason for the Russian investigation. 

Trump also seems not to understand how his own Twitter initiated words paint a picture any basic smart person can follow, much less a brilliant lawyer and lifelong FBI investigator like Robert Mueller.

What former President Ricard Nixon did to counter the efforts of an investigation against him came to our knowledge in the years following his resignation. How Trump thinks he can stop Mueller from doing a job he has given his entire life to do on behalf of this great nation is a matter you can decipher while you sit on the toilet or drink your morning coffee because that's when Trump is likely to lay his cards on the Twitter table, for all the world to read.

Occasionally, Trump's Twitter type tirades have come via two old-school mediums called audio and video recording, but they are no less public and just as revealing of a man who has lived his entire life spilling his guts all over the current medium of the moment, confident that no exposure is ever bad as long as you use it in your favor.

Twitter is an expose for and of Trump, and history will probably look to a connected chain of tweets that will unravel the mentality of a mentally disturbed man who displays both his mentality and his disturbances nearly every morning via Tweet, for all the world to read.

The damage to this nation is definite even if yet to be defined. The global trust we've lost in the process of selecting a president has rendered us as untrustworthy as our process.  Stated more clearly, WE the People will need the world community to believe we preferred Bozo the Clown over our Donald Trump mistake. We have to prove him an accident of populism and of political apathy, or possibly a clownish byproduct of Communist collusion. A fair combination of each would help even more, however, that proving can only be done in the same place of the initial accident. Voting Booths.

Has The Twitter-In-Chief tweeted his cards unto
the table revealing penis insecurity while
pointing investigators to a path of his own demise?

Clowns thrive on entertaining you to get your attention. As we finished the first working day of the new year, news reporter left and right have slapped their own hands for breaking a resolution to not allow the Clown to distract them with Tweets, only to have Trump issue multiple tirades of a madman on Twitter to kick off the new year. 

Are these Tweets distractions of an attention hound or head-fakes to hide collusion? Before I could edit this piece for syntax and synchronicity, Trump Twitter bombed the world with a slew of late night tweets, the kind of stuff that usually happens when most of us are well into our second glass of our adult beverage of preference. Tweets during certain times of day are always more revealing but often terribly regrettable, like the late night comparison of nuclear button size Trump decided to have with Kim Jong Un of North Korea.

I personally am viewing his regurgitations via Tweet as his version of the Nixon Tapes being dictated before our eyes. Much like Nixon, they are the ramblings of fear and of a foolish leader who doesn't know any better but thinks he does. Nixon recorded his happenings because he became overwhelmed with distrust of the crumbling walls around him. Eventually, the presence of the tapes and the evidence they showed of his cover-up of a petty crime became much worse than the crime itself.

Trump may or may not have recordings as he threatened to have when attempting to bully former FBI Director, James Comey, into obeisance, but he has resorted to making Twitter declarations for the jailing of James Comey and several other "Deep State" political opponents.

Yep. He did that too. Via Twitter!!

Donald J. Trump needs to direct a news narrative that he can't control, he can only share how he feels about it and what he wishes he could do if he had the power to do what he wants with the DOJ. He can also accidentally expose his mental makeup by speaking on important things in frivolous ways that promise to threaten his presidency and the world at large but not Make Anything Great Again. 

In an effort to own the news, Trump literally launched the new year with a Twitter threat against Rocket Man (North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un), Pakistan, Iran, Obama, Huma Abedin, the entire FBI and someone else that will inevitably happen just before, or soon after I publish this piece.

What happens if North Korea does not dismantle? Are WE
ready to back our words or prove them ineffective forever?
Neither of those options is good for the United States,

Donald J.Trump does all of those things, and more, via Twitter every day. As we resolve to avoid over-indulging in his clownery, we would be historical jesters to not listen to this era's Nixon tapes before they are formerly compiled, vetted and released to the public. Making New Year's resolutions to try not to give Trump's Tweets the historical significance they will have in 20-year hindsight will not change the psychological revelations they contain today.

Trump's Twitter trail will also show the destruction to the mantle of world leadership once maintained by the U.S. Granted, it is slightly presumptive to say what his overall impact will be as we stand here today, but the world could soon look back on Trump's Twitter ramblings as our most salient view into the psyche and the psychosis of president #45.