Oprah: 'I Haven't Seen This Sense of Unity Since 9/11,' Now We're 'Together in Name of Hope'

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In an interview from Chicago's Grant Park taped shortly beforehand and aired on ABC just past 10:30 PM EST/9:30 PM local time, an excited Oprah Winfrey told Good Morning America's Robin Roberts:
I haven't seen this sense of unity since 9/11, really, really, and 9/11 was this tragic experience that brought us all together and now we're all brought together in the name of hope. Not since 9/11 have I experienced anything even kind of close to this.
Of course, the 47 percent who voted for McCain may not share Winfrey's unity.

She had prefaced that contention: “It's my town. My town's been vibrating all day. I mean, from the moment I left the building this morning -- the doorman, everybody vibrates, just great. It's one of the greatest experiences of, certainly my lifetime and it's been wonderful, I think, for everybody in the country who has called somebody or somebody has called them. Everybody was e-mailing everybody standing in line.”

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I can't watch

Well, now that the media has declared Obama the winner, I think I'll turn off the TV and the computer for a couple of days.  I can't stand the rejoicing and the gloating of the MSM.  All I can say right now is that it took the Carter Administration to usher in the Reagan Revolution.  It's time for Republicans to get serious and get back to our conservative roots.  I had to hold my nose to vote for McCain this year - now let's put our energy behind the new rising stars of the party.  Let's get Congress back in 2010!!!  Then Palin/Jindal in 2012!

What conservative roots? 

What conservative roots?  Its time to forget about the Republicans.  The RINOs are why this has happened.  Develop a conservative party. 

Don't get confused, the

Don't get confused, the majority of Republicans are conservative, it's just that since the 80's they've allowed RINOs to dominate in the hopes of being seen as moderate and gaining more support. It has not worked and leads to statements such as yours.

A majority of Republicans

A majority of Republicans nominated John McCain in preference to Mitt Romney.  Q.E.D.

A few days? I went to bed

A few days?

I went to bed last night; didn't even wait for the end of it.

I plan on not watching ANY of it.  Not the endless fawning from now until January, not the inauguration, NOTHING.

Food Network and Speed Channel, baby!!

I told hubby if he wants to watch news, he'll have to do it downstairs.

It's the only way to keep my head from exploding.

 

 

Everybody Vibrates???

Hmm...we vibrate now??? Interesting Oprah...great insight!

Barack Obama= Half Honkey...ALL Donkey

Doorman vibrates

"...the doorman, everybody vibrates..." Ah yes, we all have doormen, dont we?

At least she gets hope.

The rest of us can only wait until the round us up for the Concentration Camps.

Oprah should really get out

Oprah should really get out more! 

Oprah, come to TN, where hope died tonight!  Hope for FREE markets, Hope for businesses un-incumbered by Union Dues and extreme taxes.  Hope for Free Speach.  Hopelessness in that this nation just elected a guy with zero experience, and wonder if he can protect us from the terror attacts that WILL come in the next few months. 

 

Joe Biden did promise an "event" didn't he?

I was talking with friends, since Joe said "their decision won't be a popular one"  I'm thinking something huge in the Middle East, and the United States looks away.  While countless perish.

tex

gonna be sad to watch.  so very sad.

Oprah's Happy...

Oprah's Happy....Russia is Happy (R.I.P. Georgia)....China's Happy ("We're #1! We're #1!")...Islamic terrorists 'r Happy (So long Israel, no, there's nobody got your back now)....everybody's Happy.

Hmmm, everybody is unified?

Hmmm, everybody is unified? They didn't ask me...must be too busy vibrating and tingling.

Unity my ass! I will

Unity my ass!

I will fight Obama tooth and nail every day for the next 4 years.

Obama’s Bros

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

maybe we should give him a

maybe we should give him a chance?

 

Like they did Bush?? No

Like they did Bush??

No prob. 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

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LOL Good one, USA! The

LOL Good one, USA!

The Democrats have always been the party of double standards.

About half the country voted for McCain, half for Obama.

Please, Oprah, explain how that makes us all "united."

He can resign now and we

He can resign now and we won't fight.  Chance enough?

NL207

ROTFLMAO funnnnnnny!

Thanks, I needed that:)

 

Bling

I'm more inclined to give him the same cooperation you guys gave Bush.

Btw, obama's acceptance is just as ignorant as every other speech he has made. There are jobs "to be granted"???? WTF!!!! 

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

restless 1

obama's gonna make them WORK for their hand-outs! hehe!

WORK, WORK, WORK....and get paid very, very little!

Socialism.. an all!

TN Mom

Obama has painted himself into a corner. If he gets his policies enacted, he will piss off the entire country. If he wises up, and moves to the center, he will burst the bubbles of all the utopian idiots who voted for him. Just a guess on my part, but I think he is screwed.  

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

so much for his Hope

so much for his Hope slogan...

...the idiots bought it hook, line, and sinker!  Didn't even bother to check his record (or lack of one) they just voted against Bush.  I read an article saying George Bush will come to be known as a great president as future history looks back, I thought that will be because he kept us safe.  But if, what they say is true: obama is jimmy carter on steroids, this admin is in deep trouble!

 

Not since 9/11 have I

Not since 9/11 have I experienced anything even kind of close to this.

Well dont worry there fat A$$, we might have a new 9/11 sooner then you think.. 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

Excellent.  Let the Muslims

Excellent.  Let the Muslims plant a nuke in Central Park.  Solve 2 problems in one whack.  Eliminate 2 million liberals and Obama presidency.

I'm with you, CT Pitch forks

I'm with you, CT

Pitch forks and torches.. 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

Unity= 50%-49% got

Unity= 50%-49%

got it 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

Im vibrating .... no its

Im vibrating .... no its gas

seriously .... the enemies of this country will honor Joe Biden as a prophet ..... now I hope our enemies watch Oprah and we all come together in a big giant 6 billion person hug but I have my doubts ... I also will wait and see how President Obama reacts to the inevitable testing ... I am not confident... alright I am afraid .. but if in fact he takes seriously his oath to protect this nation and does the right thing then I will say I was wrong about the man .. there is nothing from his limited background and rhetoric to indicate he is not an appeaser and has the backbone to stand up to our enemies let alone the backbone to stand up to the proven appeasers in the Democratic party ......... time will tell .. Congratulations to Obama, and congrats to any of his supporters that visit this site ... be humble because a humbling is probably coming this nations way

I don't see it Dark

He will be pledging to defend and Constitution he does not agree with. I just hope the Conservatives on the SCOTUS are as stubborn as the liberals were, and hold on until we can correct this.  

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

Restless ... I dont see it

Restless ... I dont see it either but what are we left with ...he is the prez elect .....I have zero confidence in him but all we are left is the hope that when our enemies test him and our country he will find within himself to do the right thing .....I am depressed about the future of this country... I am depressed about the country by daughter is going to grow up in but what the hell are we to do ...love our friends and family.. try to maintain dignity even though its tough ... try and have a sense of humor .. and live life

I also want to say even though Mc Cain had  really insurmountable odds .... its tough to fight 600 million....the MSM in the tank.... etc.... It is something that our country has come far enough to elect a black man ... the wrong black man .... I still go back to MLK judging a man by his character not his color and I hope we get there ....

and Josh SN where ever you

and Josh SN where ever you are I still think you are an ass

UMA

UMA - Unity My A$$

H/T PUMA

gullible

The same unity as 911? She doesn't get out much. Half the Country isn't feeling it nor are they vibrating. The double O's rode the same system to success that they want to change. Tell me how that makes sense.

National Unity My Ass

I can't claim credit for this, it's been posted elsewhere already.

true story: I voted in

true story: I voted in Detroit today and the women in front of me in line was a morbidly obese, by-polar, manic depressant, lesbian who was voting for Obama because she wanted to have children with her partner (who was also very fat and ugly) but currently she can't adopt because as she says, "they think I'm crazy"

I know all this because I spent 3 hours in line waiting to vote, incedentaly it was really hard to vote for Obama after that 

bling

they can't adopt because obama cast his vote to kill all the little babies...even the ones who are born alive.  so very, very sad.

 

We need to be prepared to--

We need to be prepared to--launch a number of complaints about racial prejudice after the new administration is in place. We ll need to sign for welfare and medicaid and if turned away or rejected, call the ASCLU to file a suit. We need to stage marches by the thousands in the major cities of the USA.

Turnabout is fair play!!!!!!!!!!!

misterbill

The ACORN name has already been taken (and are in SO much trouble) we'll need a name for our organization....

You'll just be

accused of racism yourself. Anything we say against this radical socialist will be perceived as racism, no matter how much the facts back us up.

REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

+1

I'm a racist, so say the black folks I thought were friends. I questioned O's credentials and now they won't talk to me. I feel like I'm riding in the back of the bus... but I suppose that's what they wanted. Funny how that works and to them there's nothing wrong with it.

Wes...Elaborate??? Please???

What??

Ster. 

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

...

Enjoy your new higher tax rates Oprah. I'm sure you wont do a thing to avoid paying them by hiding your money or something like that, right?

She'll find some charity

to donate to so she can write it off. And there will probably be some big alphabet channel special on it too.

REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

Shove It

Hey! Liberals! Take your unity and shove it!

You get nothing from me you buncha freakin' fascists!

Conservatives unite! Destroy the GOP! Then, destroy liberalism!

Barack Obama will never be my president.

I've got a new game

It was invented by our GOP. It's called "I'll stand here, and you kick my ass while I do nothing". This guy will make Jimmy Carter look like a good president. REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

UNITY!

50% of the people are not at all in unity and she says this is the most united she seen the country since 9/11?  at 9/11 we were 100% not half united as it is this day.

My fellow American from this day forward we need to take it one day at a time.  Invest overseas move your capital to European banks or better yet stock pile gold in different locations. not in major cities. cause if the suit case nuke is what he will be tested with in the next six months.  you dont want to put your chickens in one coup in any major city.

Unity!

Half of the country is being totally ignored. There has not been this much disunity since the democrats declaired war on the President elected by the largest plurality of votes ever cast for a Presidential nominee in 2004.

We can agree that the leftwing media and liberal 'intelligencia' are united, but they have been united in hatred for America ever since President Bush 43 was elected in 2000. No change there.

You have no idea how angry

You have no idea how angry that comment makes me.  Living in NJ and work in NYC and seeing the events of 9/11 firsthand, her use of that day is deplorable.  No unity was created by this election!  On 9/11 people were hugging and holding onto one another in the streets, complete strangers!  It didn't matter what their race, religion or politics were.  I'd like to see a hardcore democrat hugging a hardcore republican today....wouldn't happen.  On 9/11 it did.  Just how dare she...I don't know what I would do if I was there in person.

Yeah...

This chick also said she's so happy, she'd even take the drug addicts' vote. People are sick, this country is in BIG effin trouble.

REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

Drug Addicts for

Drug Addicts for Obama!

nah, he'll just tax their meth and the Unions will take all their needles.

He won't tax

their meth, they're in the bracket who pays nothing for this country. They'll be getting it for free. While he taxes my paycheck and my property.

REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

free drugs from the

free drugs from the govnment?  Now, when Rev Wright preaches sermons on the gov'ment getting people hooked on drugs, he'll be speaking the truth for once!

barf

F*** Oprah. I'm never watching her show or reading her sh*tty magazine again. Her vote was only based on race. Period.

Yeah, watch. Another 9/11 will happen on Bambi's watch, and he won't know what to do: sit down with Ahmadinijad or bomb Pakistan or whatever. At least under Bush, we will be able to say, he kept his homeland SAFE. 

Bambi is nothing but a feel-good vote for people who have been promised a free ride (at my expense) by him. Money talks. Notice, it cost him 600 million to win this race by the same margin as Bush beat Kerry. Wonder what would have happened if McCain had had Bambi's money.....

 

Obama: A glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. --RL

Oprah

Unify the country? Barry Obama said basically the same thing yesterday. Message for you two clowns--due to you, the media, and the rest of the "liberals", this country is so sharply split it will take the next 100 years to "unify". What you did to our president deserves nothing but eternal scorn.We are finished as a unified nation and our enemies are cheering.

Question: How come the media didn't show the celebrating Arabs in the streets of Iran tonight? After all, one of theirs is our new leader.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

They would have,

but they're too busy trying to find some unfounded reason to blame it on President Bush.

REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

Hold on now.  Pelosi said

Hold on now.  Pelosi said the other day (I cant make up this kind of nonsense)........."With a larger majority of Democrats, we'll have more bi-partisanship"

Yes, the logic there is solid as a rock.  I believe I heard the bi-partisanship BS in their 2006 majority win.  How'd she do with that?

Oprah

Is full of it.Apparently she doesnt care about his record as a state senator.He really served his district.Take campaign contributions from Rezko while letting people in his district go without heat and liveing in squalor.Nice job Barack let Rezko get away with not doing renovations paid for by the city.Yes Oprah their is hope.But you better have the money to buy it.

Start now1

Start gathering your funds for Bobby Jindal!! He is the next Republican hope! Jindal 2012!!!!! (Forget Palin. She should never run for President. They'd eat her alive.)

 

 

Obama: A glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. --RL

I saw this coming,

and all I have to say is, a real conservative would have SMOKED this turkey.

REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

I completely agree.  A

I completely agree.  A well-spoken conservative.  One that closely matched the 'eloquence' of speech.  That way the speech is cancelled out and everyone can (some still won't) listen to the substance, in which case the conservative substance would pummel the liberal.

The problem is

that he only said things that lacked substance. In which case, you get the "feel good" vibe. Or at least the uneducated voter gets that. With actual research, you find that (this is out of respect as an American) President Elect Obama has a record of 129 present votes in the Illinois senate, supports infanticide, has spoken with our enemies, and fraternizes with the enemies within. Conservatism wins every time it's tried, and this time, the GOP tried to reach across the aisle. Just like President Bush did... And once again, we get trampled. Let's run somebody who LOVES our country, NOT someone who might get the undecideds.

REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

"I haven't seen this sense

"I haven't seen this sense of unity since 9/11"

 Oprah is obviously clueless.  49% of America hates this turd that just claimed the presidency.  Come to think of it, Oprah is just another similar turd.  Let the Moslems or whoever kill any of these lefties they like.  No Conservative with an sense should lift a finger to interfere.

51-52%?  Isn't that the

51-52%?  Isn't that the same level of unity after 9/11 Oprah?  Oh wait, post 9/11 was in the 90% range, until the media felt it was time to start working that down.

Sorry Oprah, nice try though.

The left divides this

The left divides this country by being insanely nasty and divisive, then claim they are the agents of unity... Whatever.

~Chad

Cincinnati, OH

I'm 31. I'm ready

for HOPE and CHANGE! In 2012, I can hope to change this country back to what it was founded on. Freedom!!! I'll be old enough, and I'll be called some dumb technician from Iowa who has no experience. No matter how educated I may be.

REAL conservative in '12... PLEASE!!!

Hey Oprah

STFU.  You're still useless.

United??? 47% or 51M Americans DIDN'T vote for Obama The Messiah

56M to 51M votes as I type this....that's not united, not a mandate, and barely a majority.  

They keep talking mandate and united country etc...in a year when ANY Democrat should win the election, Obama wins 52% to 47%, big whoop...not a landslide, not that impressive.  Hillary would have won by 10%, in my opinion.  

Reagan over Mondale was impressive, Bush over Dukakis was impressive. 

This country is still very divided and will be more so if Obama goes left left left....let's hope he doesn't. 

First of all, Oprah is a

First of all, Oprah is a world-class idiot. 9/11 was not a "tragic experience". It was an out right act of war against us by Islamofascists who want us dead. This country will be hit again because now we are controlled by leftist Marxists who don't believe that these murderers are even a threat to us.

We re-elected Murtha who has constantly been destroying our troops, who calls his electorate racists and rednecks.

We re-elected Durbin who has been constanty destroying our troops, calling them Nazis and members of Pol Pot's regime.

We elect a hatemonger, anti-semite, socialist as President.

We are closer to those that loathe and despise us than ever before. 

You support the troops by supporting the mission! If you don't support the mission, have the guts to say you don't support the troops.

Obama: Not my President. Ever.

unfortunately, not.

Oprah:

Class warfare and transfer payments are not a way to unify the country.  Obama economics are a wedge, not a unifier.

Dear Oprah:  My friend got

Dear Oprah:

 My friend got to watch her baby die in an abortion clinic toilet while she screamed for staff to call 911, thanks to the attitudes of people like Barack Obama. Thank you for celebrating my friend's baby's death as some sort of wonderful, beautiful thing. 

 Thank you, all Obama supporters, for celebrating my friend's baby's death.

We're not weeping tears of joy. We're crying because we're remembering Rowan, who you consider garbage, disposable, not "the least of these" but beneath your notice. 

Reset The Calendar!

It's now 9/10 and we have a dumb f*ck Marxist for our President!

We are so f*cked that it isn't funny!

I didn't leave my Country, My country LEFT me!

FUCK BARACK OBAMA!

V chip

Bill Clinton gave us one good thing, the TV "V Chip". I am programming mine to block her for good. 

Unity? What a joke

The whole Obama campaign turned on driving wedges between people.  Rural vs. urban.  Religious left vs. religious right.  Rich vs. poor.  Media vs. conservatives.  And most of all, minorities vs. whites.  This election has set back race relations a few decades.  It's hard not to be resentful when the principled disagreements with The One were routinely cast as racist.  We'll be hearing a lot more of that over the next four years.

Unity?  What a joke.   

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

As I've always said, Oprah's

As I've always said, Oprah's nothing but a fat racist.

Not since 9/11?

Thats' funny, Oprah.
Because as I recall it, on 9/11 I felt numb, dazed, and wishing I could wake up from this nightmare.

I agree with Oprah, hehe-------

Sure, I feel the unity. I've been reading the posts here and I sense plenty of unity. Come on brothers and sisters, feel the unity, do you feel it now!!! I wouldn't be bull sh--'n ya brothers and sisters, we is near the rapture, can ya dig it. Whatever crap comes our way we will prevail.

Just remember this---after 4yrs of Obama, a compliant house and senate, a possible re-structuring of SCOUS, $6.00 a gallon gasoline, electric bills you can't pay, no job, not able to pay for food, oh, but we'll have health care, can ya dig it!!! Feel the unity?

Gabby Johnson that renowned American frontiersman assures me after 4 yrs of Obama there will be unity, trust me.  Feel the unity!!!

Ummm, Gabby's revealed to me he's smitten with Oprah, it seems he keeps hearing the refrain of Buffalo Gal won't ya come out tonight, come out tonight, come out tonight, I didn't know.

Oprah

Why is it when liberals win, they say we're all united, but when they lose, they say we're so divided? The reason is that they do't consider us as part of this country. We're supposed to work and pay taxes but keep our mouth shut. Oprah makes me sick. I refuse to listen to her or any other of these rich celebreties! This man is not my President! It will be a cold day in Hell before I ever acknowledge a Communist as my President

She's talking about unity

She's talking about unity of the Terrorists, right? Because this country is even more divided than it was yesterday.

RightWired.

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reaga

This is pure racism

He could be a wolf in sheeps clothing but they don't care.  All they care about is his skin color.  Now that's what I call pure racism.

Oprah is delusional....as

Oprah is delusional....as usual when it comes to the real world and what others in this country think...I can't believe how the leftists all say we are united now...are they CRAZY?

Never-mind...

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

And no one wants to mention

And no one wants to mention that the terrorists were pushing for BO's election. What does that tell you?  Nonetheless, when we get hit again, it will STILL be Bush's fault...and he'll be clearing cedar in Crawford, minding his own business.