US talk show host, Oprah Winfrey made an unexpected appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday, urging independent voters to prioritize “common sense over nonsense.”
In a dynamic speech, Winfrey energized the crowd, declaring, “We are so fired up that we can’t wait to leave here and do something.”
“And what we’re going to do is elect Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States. And let us choose joy!” Winfrey said, a day after former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle addressed the DNC.
“Let us choose common sense over nonsense,” said the 70-year-old television personality to applause from the thousands of attendees at the United Center in Chicago — home of her globally acclaimed morning talk show.
“America is an ongoing project that requires commitment… and every once in a while it requires standing up to life’s bullies.”
“When a house is on fire, we don’t ask about the homeowner’s race or religion… We just try to do the best we can to save them. And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady, well, we try to get that cat out too,” Winfrey said.
“Let us choose common sense over nonsense. Common sense tells us Kamala Harris and Tim Walz can give us decency and respect,” she told the convention, where she was one of the warm-up acts to Walz’s address, alongside musicians Stevie Wonder and John Legend.
“Very soon, we’re going to be teaching our daughters and sons about how this child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father — two idealistic, energetic -— how this child grew up to become the 47th President of the United States,” she said.
“That is the best of America,” she added.
