Oprah on Discount

On a sunny Saturday like today, yard sale signs in Brookside make the place look like it’s election time again, except there’s crap being sold instead of crappy candidates. But there was one at Gregory and Edgevale this morning that caught my eye. Down at the bottom of the store-bought sign were stickers advertising “Oprah for President ’08.”

A couple blocks north, I found the home of Patrick Crowe. If you haven’t heard of him, the former car wash owner has been trying to get his favorite talk show host to run for president for more than a year now.

And in almost every way, Crowe’s campaign has been a rousing success. He’s gotten loads of publicity, appearing on a half-dozen TV shows, on 25 radio programs and in another 10 newspaper articles, from London to Palm Springs. There’s just one thing he hasn’t been able to do: convince Oprah to run.