By Kenzie Bryant, Vanity Fair:
Now that it’s known that experience isn’t a job requirement…
Oprah Winfrey, America’s moral center and keeper of the margaritas, is considering a presidential run. In a new interview with Bloomberg’s David Rubenstein, she responded to his suggestion that she could break the glass ceiling for women (met with much applause by the Bloomberg audience) with an answer that essentially amounted to not a definite no.
“I actually never thought that that was . . . ,” Winfrey started, trying to get her words right before beginning again: “I never considered the question even a possibility. I thought, Oh gee, I don’t have the experience, I don’t know enough. Now I’m thinking . . .oh!”
Winfrey’s Barack Obama presidential endorsement in 2007 is thought to have had major impact on his eventual win, but up to this point, that’s been the extent of her play for political leadership. In 2015, when her good friend Gayle King made the suggestion on her CBS morning show, Winfrey said, “Not in this lifetime.” Over a decade before that, she told ABC News, “People say ‘never say never,’ but when it comes to politics, I can say never.” The Bloomberg interview appears to be the first departure from that hard-line policy.
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