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Oprah for President

 
NYC-May/June 2008
May/June 2008

She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 21, 1954. But now it’s 2008 and she has come from rags to riches. Some call her “America’s best friend.” I’d like to call her “America’s next president.”

One of my peers recently said the world has been waiting for an African-American or a woman to become U.S. president, but no one expected we were going to get both running up against each other, with Barack Obama facing Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination. “If the world got a woman and an African-American in one,” I wondered, “who would it be?” Then I thought of Oprah Winfrey.>>>(MORE)

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