For Immediate Release Contact: Jackie Wright,
June 15, 2008 415 525.0410
“One Father and Son Say Oprah Gave the Nod.”
San Francisco-“Oh Goodness Gracious,”“Oh My,”“O-Kay”“O Say Can You See”“Obama”“Oprah”“O-8,”says San Francisco based LaHitz Media director, Jacquie Taliaferro, who had fun with the idea of Oprah being Vice President of the United States of America. According to Taliaferro, Barack Obama should have Oprah Winfrey as his running mate. “With the O-factor, the ‘Double-O’ factor you better believe Obama would be a shoo in, “ says Taliaferro. “Everyone loves Oprah!” “Uh-Oh, no one could stand against the Double O-Factor, adds Taliaferro!
Taliaferro says Obama and his team should stop wracking their brains and just go with the no-brainer, Oprah Winfrey as Vice President. “She’s practically Queen of the World,” so Obama needn’t worry about international diplomacy.”
On Father’s Day, while in the press corps at Winfrey’s Stanford address, as she commended her goddaughter, Kirby Bumpus, her best friend Gayle King’s child and the 2008 Stanford graduating class of over 4,000, Jacquie Taliaferro and his teenage son Alex, gave what they call the “Double-O” sign! (Both hands in the air with the four fingers touching the thumb configuring an “O.”)
“I think she got it,” says Alex, who joined in on his father’s whimsical political fantasy. “She nodded right after we gave the ‘Double-O’ sign.” The Taliaferros’ who spent Father’s Day covering Oprah’s commencement address are convinced she signaled she’d take on the role as Obama’s running mate. “Are you sure she wasn’t nodding to the closing prayer by Reverend Joanne Sanders ,” fellow LaHitz Media writer, Jackie Wright queried. “We gave her the “Double-O,” Obama- Oprah sign and she nodded as if to say right on,” Alex added with strong political fervor. Mills College MBA graduate, Darice Balabanis, a LaHitz stringer also on the Winfrey assignment couldn’t sway the Taliaferros from their conclusion that Oprah nodded in agreement to the “Double O-Obama Oprah” sign.
There you have it folks straight from Stanford Stadium at the 117th commencement, Oprah Winfrey has given the nod to the Vice Presidency of the United States of America, taking body language to a whole new level. Obama and Oprah- “Ohhh—Eight” just as the Stanford class responded to Oprah’s call of “Ohhh-Eight!” Talk about change, with Oprah’s humanitarian focus of giving back (“You can’t move forward unless you give back,” she told the crowd of over 40,000) and Obama’s quest for government to serve the people, the “Double O” factor is surely headed for a landslide victory. The O’s have it.
(Photo attached by Jackie Wright: Alex Taliaferro (looking a lot like a young Obama with his recent hair cut) and father, Jacquie Taliaferro give the “Double-O” sign; photo of Oprah at podium by Jacquie Taliaferro.)