insists Obama will be assassinated if elected, unless subservient to Miss Daisy, thus projecting her racism onto Americans:ÂÂ
If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview published here Saturday.
Obama, who is vying to become the first black president in US history, “would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him,” Lessing, 88, told the Dagens Nyheter daily.
Lessing, who won the 2007 Nobel Literature Prize, said it might be better if Obama’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton were to succeed in her bid to become the first woman president of the United States.”
The best thing would be if they (Clinton and Obama) were to run together. Hillary is a very sharp lady. It might be calmer if she were to win, and not Obama,” she said.ÂÂ
Comment by happyfeet on 2/10 @ 9:13 pm #
It’s time for your jello cup, Doris. That’s a good girl.
Comment by Heather on 2/10 @ 9:14 pm #
I figure it’s wishful thinking. If he IS killed, she and her friends get to congratulate themselves on being so much more enlightened than those jerks across the pond.
Comment by Taisa on 2/10 @ 9:21 pm #
Of course he’ll be killed, because unlike Mandela or Mbeki, he’s going to be leading a country with a long history of political oppression of minorities…..
Comment by B Moe on 2/10 @ 9:24 pm #
Come on, you really think we aren’t more backward than the rest of the world?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64969
Especially those NASCAR lovin’ rednecks.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 2/10 @ 9:38 pm #
Especially those NASCAR lovin’ rednecks.
Remember when NBC News sent some women in Islamic dress to NASCAR events, trolling for racist incidents? They just KNEW they’d get some reactions!
Except they didn’t. I bet the newsroom folks were bewildered for weeks.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/10 @ 9:39 pm #
Hillary is a very sharp lady.
Sharp enough to know when a good cry come in handy.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/10 @ 9:40 pm #
Also – “It might be calmer if she were to win, and not Obama”
Driving Miss Daisy much?
Comment by Synova on 2/10 @ 10:00 pm #
Don’t you know that failing to provoke racist incidents at a NASCAR race only means that it’s even worse than they thought because the racism was expressed in secret code words?
Comment by Synova on 2/10 @ 10:00 pm #
The secret kind you can’t detect is the absolute worst.
Comment by daleyrocks on 2/10 @ 10:01 pm #
They have Crackers in South Africa? Who knew? What was that apartheid shit all about anyway?
Comment by Synova on 2/10 @ 10:02 pm #
Waitaminut… maybe she means that the CLINTONS would murder him.
Maybe she’s not a senile racist bat after all.
Comment by B Moe on 2/10 @ 10:03 pm #
Remember when NBC News sent some women in Islamic dress to NASCAR events, trolling for racist incidents? They just KNEW they’d get some reactions!
I have been a NASCAR fan since the 60s, and forget sometimes other peoples impressions of us. During the last ten or twenty years when the fanbase really started to grow, I would often go to races with friends checking it out for the first time, and one of the things that would always surprise them was the large number of black people in the stands. Most of them wearing Earnhardt jackets, by the way. Anyone who has ever been to a race knows that fanbase is one of the most misrepresented groups in the media.
Comment by David Weisman on 2/10 @ 10:26 pm #
Does this just ’sound silly’ to you, or do you have strong reasons to believe she’s being absurd?
Comment by maggie katzen on 2/10 @ 10:27 pm #
both?
Comment by happyfeet on 2/10 @ 10:31 pm #
Strong reasons to believe she’s being fundamentally cowardly I think. Craven, even. Racist. Can’t you see that or is it a profound thought-piece? Should we go out on the grass and sit in a circle and rap about it? Jesus God.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/10 @ 10:33 pm #
Where’smy goddamn jello cup?
Comment by daleyrocks on 2/10 @ 10:33 pm #
David, what do you latte liberal or Dunkin Donut Dem friends think?
Comment by daleyrocks on 2/10 @ 10:35 pm #
pudding cup?
Comment by David Weisman on 2/10 @ 10:35 pm #
Well, I tend to think Obama would have the courage to take office even knowing this to be true – but I admire you for coming to his defense. Lessing’s solution is wrong, but the problem is real.
I don’t think the idea of an assasination threat against him is laughable, it’s worth seriously thinking about and preparing for. Of course, all Presidents and even candidates are carefully guarded.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/10 @ 10:37 pm #
Actually I stopped at Trader Joe’s and got my gay ice cream. Double Rainbow Double Chocolate. For watching A Scanner Darkly.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/10 @ 10:37 pm #
It’s a lifestyle choice.
Comment by maggie katzen on 2/10 @ 10:38 pm #
NTTAWWT
Comment by happyfeet on 2/10 @ 10:39 pm #
Good job, Mr. Weisman. That probably sounds snarky but I mean it for real.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/10 @ 10:53 pm #
I don’t think the idea of an assasination threat against him is laughable, it’s worth seriously thinking about and preparing for. Of course, all Presidents and even candidates are carefully guarded.
I think the idea that Bush (and Cheney) have been more susceptible to assassination plots sans threats is more plausible, but when I read lefty blogs I am supposed to believe it’s freedom of speech, these threats.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/10 @ 10:54 pm #
…and plots.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/10 @ 10:57 pm #
…and fear mongering, because I am supposed to be wearing diapers because I am fearing threats.
Comment by B Moe on 2/10 @ 10:57 pm #
I don’t think the idea of an assasination threat against him is laughable, it’s worth seriously thinking about and preparing for. Of course, all Presidents and even candidates are carefully guarded.
But that is not what she said, this:
If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated…
Obama…“would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him,â€Â
is what she said. Who is “they”, do you think? And don’t you think her statement is maybe just a little more absurd than your interpretation of it?
Comment by United Obamasian Exclusionary African Church in America on 2/10 @ 11:08 pm #
Chelsea attacked and made victim. United Obamasian Exclusionary African Church in America making history has chosen work for Hillary. Chelsea will be needing some too, so what’s good for her?
State Department employees come out about being Republican , ‘you should know I’m African American(like we want strokes and pain)’, and black. Powell, ‘my secret service officers must be African American,’ comes out for the United Obamasian Exclusionary African Church in America and Rice promises to come out later. State Department heads are so busy solving the world’s problems, maybe they should get jobs at the United Obamasian Exclusionary African Church in America too. There is Oprah, ‘how did you think my viewers would vote, what am I?’, who wants to be VP but she is talk show, so who?
Comment by daleyrocks on 2/10 @ 11:09 pm #
Shorter Doris – Some people just don’t know their place.
Comment by daleyrocks on 2/10 @ 11:28 pm #
Feets – Do they have transgendered flavors at Trader Joes? I don’t shop there very often.
Comment by daleyrocks on 2/10 @ 11:32 pm #
Maybe a nice Gilbert Hash – to give it a Ben& Jerry’s type tone. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, hash.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/10 @ 11:51 pm #
It’s San Francisco’s Official Ice Cream! is all I know really. We just call it gay ice cream cause of the rainbows. And the San Francisco. And the carton thingies have Steve & Mike being all flirty about how the milk they use isn’t all hormoney. I guess I don’t know for sure if Steve & Mike really are all I love you Steve oh Mike I love you too, but until I find out different it’s sort of a strong hypothesis. The pumpkin is the best but that’s seasonal. And that is the story about the ice cream I bought today at Trader Joe’s.
Comment by mojo on 2/10 @ 11:58 pm #
Lawdy lawdy!!
Comment by Robert on 2/11 @ 12:30 am #
I think that the Embittered Loners With Rifles club is going to sit this one out, at least until they find out what Obama stands for. If anything.
Comment by Ron on 2/11 @ 1:07 am #
Please research your topic before making blanket statements about:
1. Lessing being South African.
2. Lessing being a racist.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing Lessing is British. Born in Iran and grew up in Zimbabwe.
Lessing is a communist and her comments need to be seen from that angle.
Comment by A. Pendragon on 2/11 @ 1:14 am #
True, Ron – British people can never be racist, although if Mr. Show is to be believed, they (and they alone) can fly.
Comment by daleyrocks on 2/11 @ 1:29 am #
Mary Poppins flew.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/11 @ 1:29 am #
Off the shelf? Crystal Creamery is divine. Ummmm. Yummmm. Oooooooh yum!
Comment by daleyrocks on 2/11 @ 1:34 am #
Rhodesia is in South Africa, the region, is it not?
Comment by Sean M. on 2/11 @ 1:48 am #
And pans can’t talk.
Comment by Rusty on 2/11 @ 6:26 am #
Gosh. Ron. And here I thought that she was just a senile, old, racist idiot. Turns out she’s a senile, old, communist, racist idiot. Boy! My consciousness has been RAISED!!
Comment by Challeron on 2/11 @ 6:48 am #
And here I thought that Rhodesia was named after Cecil Rhodes, he of the Rhodes Scholarship, who believed that the White Man was Destined to Rule The World.
No racism involved there….
Comment by Log Cabin on 2/11 @ 7:03 am #
Wait a minute! Shouldn’t it be Zimbabawe, not Rhodesia?
Beware the racism!
Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/11 @ 7:04 am #
And we *ALL* know communists can’t be racists!
Actually, I suspect her bigotry is particularly against white Americans.
Comment by B Moe on 2/11 @ 7:19 am #
Lessing moved to Salisbury to work as a telephone operator, and she soon married her first husband, Frank Wisdom, with whom she had two children, before the marriage ended in 1943.
So she parted ways with Frank Wisdom well over a half century ago.
Comment by Ron on 2/11 @ 7:33 am #
I haven’t a clue as to why the old bird was asked to comment about American politics. She does not have any credentials in the field. I think she meant to say that someone should assassinate old Bob M. It happens that names are confused when the batteries on hearing aids arn’t fully charged!
Comment by Ron on 2/11 @ 7:46 am #
OK, I agree. Bigotry would be a good description of her comments. My opinion is that communists being racialist seems a contradiction.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/11 @ 9:36 am #
Why should I take her analysis of US politics seriously? She’s a novelist; not a political analyst. This is one of those problems where a person who is an expert/talented in one field is given deference when she babbles about a totally unrelated topic.
For example, Sean Penn is an expert on acting; seamanship? Not so much.
Comment by BJTexs on 2/11 @ 10:51 am #
Oh Mikey. Haven’t you heard that celebrities (especially literary celebrities with their wordly ways and fictionally gravitas) deserve their big, bad soundstage for their views on EVERYTHING! Now that gentle Doris has been sanctified with the holy Nobel (see Gore, Al) her pronouncements on great and expansive political events gain divine status, just as the Oscar granted special analytical insights to Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn.
Now please excuse me as I have to go find the curest little dog in my neighborhood and kick it like a PAT.
(Bmoe and Maggie: Of course I’m kidding about the dog. I’d only do that to a child.)
Comment by Jeff G. on 2/11 @ 11:19 am #
Obama is currently winning the popular vote among Dem primary voters, and — to many on the Right — is even preferable to McCain.
It’s quite possible a racist nutjob could assassinate Obama, were he elected. But such an action can only be attributed back to other folks superficially “like” the assassin (for purposes of argument, let’s say he’s White, middle-aged, and calls himself a Christian) by way of the kind of poisonous identity politics and hermeneutic sleight of hand that was popularized in the west by communist and socialist theorists.
Lessing lives in a tautology. Which, I hear, can be quite damp, and make one irritable. And have bad teeth.
Comment by Sean M. on 2/11 @ 11:23 am #
Personally, I’ll reserve judgment until Harold Pinter tells me what to think about it.
Comment by Rusty on 2/11 @ 4:27 pm #
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Comment by Ron on 2/11 @ 7:46 am #
My opinion is that communists being racialist seems a contradiction.
The worst genocidal political philosophy in history seems a contradiction?
Comment by Eric on 2/11 @ 6:04 pm #
True, Ron – British people can never be racist, although if Mr. Show is to be believed, they (and they alone) can fly.
Flying is easy. You just jump… and miss the ground.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 2/12 @ 9:33 am #
Tautology…isn’t that one of those huge, completely closed habitats?
Comment by Hillary on 2/12 @ 2:06 pm #
Where’s Vince Foster’s gun?
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