Oprah Winfrey Gives Commencement Speech At Duke University On Mother's Day (Video)

Seems like President Obama's number one fan has conflicting views with her Savior over whether or not it's okay to make a buck in today's America!

Just days before the President blasted America(President Obama Commencement Speech To Arizona State Grads: America Sucks, Capitalism Sucks, Our Military Sucks (Complete Video)), Ms. Winfrey celebrated her success by saying "It's great to have a private jet!"

The Wall Street Journal reports on Oprah's pro-capitalism efforts:

The private-jet industry may have finally found its savior.

During a speech to Duke University’s graduating class, Oprah talked about the secrets and joys of success. Among them: owning a mansion and a jet.

“It’s great to have a nice home. It’s great to have nice homes! It’s great to have a nice home that just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara,” she told the students. “It’s great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet
isn’t great is lying to you.”

She went on to explain that “you haven’t completed the circle of success until you help someone else move to a higher ground and get to a better place.”

The golden nugget here is the jet part. In these times of hair-shirt capitalism and envy politics, the wealthy have been going to great lengths to pretend they don’t enjoy luxury or want nice stuff. If Oprah were like most of the faux-populist rich today, she would have said something like, “I don’t need private jets, in fact I’m happier flying commercial and living in a small house. I like the simple life.” Of course, she would be lying.

But she didn’t. She told the truth, which is that flying in a private jet is one of the great material perks that money can buy. (Talk to anyone who used to be rich and they will say one thing they really miss is the jet. Apparently Oprah’s ride is a $42 million custom-build Global Express XRS built by Bombardier Aerospace).

For the past few months, the private-jet industry has been mounting an enormous public-relations campaign to get people to fly private again. It will take a recovery and wealth creation to really turn the business around. Perhaps for the public-relations part, it should forget all the boring arguments about jobs and productivity and efficiency and run a picture of Oprah with one simple line: “It’s Great to Have a Private Jet.”

Oprah Winfrey:







From Duke University:

“Of all of the wonderful things that have happened to me, including receiving an honorary degree from Duke … you really haven’t completed that circle of success unless you have helped someone else to move forward,” Winfrey told a larger-than-usual crowd of graduates, families and friends under an overcast sky. “How can I help somebody else move to higher ground? That is success. That’s it. That’s why we’re all alive.”

She appeared to cheers and a shout of “We love you, Oprah,” to which she responded: “You love me even though I’m a doctor now?” She then urged mothers in the audience to rise for Mother’s Day and extended personal congratulations to her godson, William Bumpus, a graduating senior and son of Winfrey’s friend Gayle King. “Will never wants people to know he knows me,” Winfrey joked. “I’m like his crazy aunt that they let out at commencements.”

In her speech, which was carried live on CNN.com and Oprah.com as well as on Duke’s website, Winfrey shared stories about interviewing celebrities as diverse as Hugh Jackman and Nelson Mandela, as well as ordinary people who she said often inspired her even more. She returned repeatedly to her theme that “one of the best ways to enhance your own life is to enhance somebody else’s.”

She also emphasized the need to make wise choices daily, saying, “Each of us has to stand in our own shoes. Will you stand in them in humility and compassion and courage? Every day will give you a chance to make that choice.”

Everyone gets a school! You get a school! You get a school!

Hugo Chavez: Chavez: "Capitalism needs to go down"

Obama's favorite Western Hemisphere Neo-Fascist Socialist Hugo Chavez had some harsh words for the G20 Nations.

Oh, Hugo! What's the matter? Are you sore because you weren't invited to the Big Tea Party across The Pond?

This is the same man who called Obama "a poor ignoramus", told him to "clean his ass" and called on Obama to embrace Socialism for the benefit of the Western Hemisphere.

Oddly enough, he did make one good point by saying that another $1 Trillion in spending is "more money for a bottomless pit."

Hmmm.... maybe Republicans should have consulted Hugo in their fight against the CRAPulus Spending Bill.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday ridiculed the G-20 summit's attempts to deal with the global financial meltdown, saying that capitalism is in crisis and must end.

Chavez criticized the G-20 nations' pledges of more than a trillion dollars for lending to struggling countries at Thursday's summit in London, calling it "the same medicine that's killing the patient—a trillion dollars ... more money for a bottomless pit."


Speaking during a visit to Iran, the Venezuelan leader said the plans by the Group of 20 industrial and developing countries would strengthen "one of the great guilty ones behind the crisis: the International Monetary Fund."

The IMF and the World Bank are "tools of imperialism" and must be eliminated, Chavez said.

In earlier remarks, he also blamed the United States and Britain, calling them "the most guilty" for the financial crisis sweeping the globe because of the financial model "they've been imposing for years."

"It's impossible that capitalism can regulate the monster that is the world financial system, it's impossible," Chavez told Venezuela's state TV late Thursday. "Capitalism needs to go down. It has to end. And we must take a transitional road to a new model that we call socialism."

He's so Guapo when he is angry! En fuego!

New York Times: 'This Anglo-American System Of Capitalism Was What Lead Us Into Our Present Troubles.' (Video)

Protestors in London flashed signs that read "Capitalism Isn't Working".

Shocker! John Burns of The New York Times agrees! Long live The United Socialist States of America! USSA!

Couric Says Violent G20 Protestors Are Experiencing "Populist Anger" (Video)

Katie Couric equates violent protests in London with Americans "anger" over banks and Wall Street. She says protests showcase "populist anger" towards governments who are "not doing enough for the poor"?

Who's angry? President Obama and Tim Geithner and their war on capitalism?

At least Obama is not literally throwing bricks down on Wall Street, but the Liberals may as well start breaking stuff.



President Obama, in a blatant abuse on his constitutional Executive power, felt it necessary to fire GM CEO Rick Wagoner this week.

Tim Geithner unveiled a plan last week, designed to give Treasury Department the ability to take over financial institutions at the Secretary's choosing.

Recently, a bill has been introduced in Congress, HR 1664 Grayson-Himes Pay For Performance Act of 2009, which aims to cap pay which is not performance based and any and all employees who work for companies receiving bailout dollars.

It's a power grab to redistribute wealth, penalize the successful and establish a communistic "equality" among Americans.

Regulation = control and power.

Team "O" wants to destroy free market capitalism. There is ample proof of Obama's war on investors. Welcome to The United Socialist States of America (USSA).

Economist Milton Friedman Defends Capitalism and Free Markets; 30 Year Old Donahue Interview Relevant to Marxist Obamanomics

From Patterico, via Sister Toldjah and Right Wing News:

In the below video, Milton Friedman takes Phil Donahue to school on the value of free markets. He expresses what not so long ago were America’s guiding economic principles. These principles may rise again, but not, I fear, before much “stimulating” damage has been done.