From People magazine — which, I assure you, I don't read; I discovered this piece on a news aggregator — a perfectly dreadful, Mike Huckabeelike entry:
There’s only one thing that could make Oprah Winfrey run for president in 2020.
Amid calls for her to consider a run for the White House — from fans as well as her closest friends — "I went into prayer," she tells PEOPLE in the magazine’s new cover story. "'God, if you think I’m supposed to run, you gotta tell me, and it has to be so clear that not even I can miss it.' And I haven’t gotten that."
Neither did Huckabee nor any of the dozens of other sanctimonious, sacrilegious Republican charlatans who, over the years, have proclaimed their candidacies to be merely The Will of God — thus they had to run (and invariably lost, which made either them or God a liar). Offhand I can't think of any modern-era Democrat who used the Almighty as a promotional prop. Should Oprah go either psychotic or demagogic, she would invalidate that honorable claim.
Stick to the temporal, Ms. Winfrey. Close your ears to schizophrenic or political siren-song wails. Besides, God has better things to do than to try to guide seven billion people who've had centuries to learn how to behave like decent human beings — and still don't have the hang of it. I suspect the Lord follows the Kantian school of pedagogy: Teach to the middle; the upper species don't need His guidance, and the lower ones — such as us — are too hopelessly stupid to grasp it.