Obama: Oprah Helps Me 'Focus on the Big Picture'

Yahoo! News/ABC OTUS News ^ | March 17, 2012 | Devin Dwyer

[Free ThinkerNY]

ATLANTA - President Obama opened his Friday of fundraising with a rousing speech to 600 donors in Chicago and closed it with an intimate appeal before 40 "friends" that included talk-show host, business woman and American icon, Oprah Winfrey.

"There's my good friend Oprah, who very early on when I was still running, just decided that she would support this guy with a name that nobody could pronounce," Obama said as he addressed guests seated around five candle-lit tables adorned with bouquets of red roses inside the cavernous Chateau-style home of actor/producer Tyler Perry.

"And just like books, skin cream - whatever she says she likes, then other people like to," he said. "She continues to be not just a friend but somebody Michelle and I seek out in thinking about not just the day to day issues of the day but trying to keep our focus on the big picture. And what she's done for so many people not just in America but around the world is extraordinary. "

Oprah was flanked at her table by Perry, longtime friend and companion Gail King, Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.

"We've had a good day," Obama continued. "It's warm every place. It gets you a little nervous about what's happening to global temperatures. But when it's 75 degrees in Chicago in the beginning of March it gets you thinking…"

"Something's wrong," Oprah interjected.

"Yeah," Obama said in passing. "On other hand we really have enjoyed the nice weather."

[GnL]

Two words: FUBO and FUOW

[hal ogen]

Just great...a president who relies on a talk show host for advice. How low can he go??????

[Dr. Ursus]

She’s got man hands!

[jennings2004]

Uuuhhh, just check out the Executive Order put out in the middle of the night and you will see a much “lower” level..it’s on this site now.

[hal ogen]

I saw that. You know what you have to do.

[sheana]

You have a great idea. If Obama wins again all conservatives should stop whatever they are doing, put their hands out for gimmes, and start screaming at the top of their lungs.
Just collapse the system and get it over with. If he wins again there really is no use in fighting any longer.

[Razz Barry]

Yep, go on strike. The stupid lazy people have been paid to breed to the point they out number us. I don't think it would take much to convince them to turn on their rich liberal friends. Any fool can see the rich liberals only give lip service to caring about the poor. They've just used the poor to line their pockets and those of their friends. That was what all those green job loans were about. The Obama administration proved how little it cared about poor people when it sent guns across the Mexican border to kill poor Mexicans.
The left may think collapsing the system would be to their benefit, but, it may well collapse them. They should be careful what they ask for, they may get it.