Monday, February 11, 2008

Obama 'would be killed'

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing says she believes Barack Obama would be assassinated if he were elected president.

Asked if she supported Hillary Clinton or Mr Obama, Lessing told the Stockholm daily Dagens Nyheter "it doesn't matter," but suggested the two should join forces in the election.

"It would be best if they ran together. Hillary is a very sharp lady. It might be calmer if she wins and not Obama," Lessing was quoted as saying.

"He would probably not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would kill him," Lessing said on Saturday. She did not specify who she believed would kill Obama.

Source. Actually, my dad has said the same thing; he thinks that Obama would be at risk not only from white supremacists, but from some Islamic fundamentalists as well, since he's a Christian whose ancestors were Muslim, and thus, in the eyes of some, an apostate.

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