{"id":2043,"date":"2018-01-15T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2018-01-16T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:44:40","slug":"not-oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"Not Oprah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize people were\u00a0<em>seriously<\/em> hoping Oprah Winfrey would run for president. I don&#8217;t believe an inexperienced individual instantaneously makes a bad president &#8211; they could\u00a0<em>know<\/em> their limitations and rely heavily on experts, then use their judgement to decide. I&#8217;d probably have inexperienced people with trusted judgement as cabinet heads with dual second-in-commands &#8211; a guy from Exxon and a guy from the Sierra Club can explain why we should \/ shouldn&#8217;t be drilling in the ANWR, then the department head decides.<\/p>\n<p>The problem I have with Oprah is her judgement of an &#8216;expert&#8217; &#8211; the source of wisdom used to determine policy. Maybe all of the Dr Oz miracle supplements and Dr Phil moments are just to make money. Maybe she&#8217;s totally aware that whatever the miracle anti-aging eye cream of the week is a scam and that injecting mass doses of plant-sourced estrogen doesn&#8217;t do anything to keep you young. But she&#8217;s either hawking snake oil or she actually believes this stuff. Neither is a particularly desirable attribute of a president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize people were\u00a0seriously hoping Oprah Winfrey would run for president. I don&#8217;t believe an inexperienced individual instantaneously makes a bad president &#8211; they could\u00a0know their limitations and rely heavily on experts, then use their judgement to decide. I&#8217;d probably have inexperienced people with trusted judgement as cabinet heads with dual second-in-commands &#8211; a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[491,26,24],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2020-election","tag-politics","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}