Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss 'Will Spark the Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run

[babsbunny]

in the Streets'

http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/erica-jong-tells-italians-obama-loss-will-spark-second-american-civil-war-blood-will-r

by Jason Horowitz | October 30, 2008


It seems that the final days of the presidential campaign have made Erica Jong and her friends more than a little anxious.

A few days ago, Jong, the author and self-described feminist, gave an interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the choicest bits of which were brought to my attention by the reliably sharp-eyed Christian Rocca, the U.S. correspondent of Il Foglio, who published excerpts on his Camillo blog. Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an "obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night." She also says that her friends Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf are extremely worried that Obama will be sabotaged by Republican dirty tricks, and that if an Obama loss indeed comes to pass, the result will be a second American Civil War.

[billyoc]

1. Well, I admire her optimism, but America will just check the TV guide and crack a beer.

[babsbunny]

4. I remember when Martin Luther King was killed....I attended a 90% black school.

Guess who was punished for his death. Yes, the white kids in the school. I think this is what she might be talking about.

[Winterblues]

7. I think there will be just as many whites in the streets as blacks

If the election is stolen this time it will not stand..People will be in the streets and it could well be a new Civil War...Until those darn voting machines are dumped into the bay anything is possible..

[Ezlivin]

10. I know that THIS white boy will be in the streets

I'll be damned if I let this one go down without a fight!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Erica Jong

has about as much of a sense of what America's about as George W. Bush. She's rather ill-informed, too.

There. I said it.

[Mme. Defarge]

3. It sounds to me like an extreme case of

Fear of Lying!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. I wonder how much she said in the interview was lost in the translation?

[KamaAina]

11. "that Obama might lose the election"

should have read "that McCain might steal the election".

[melody]

6. No violence (at least I hope not) but it'll set the path toward 2 USAs

We'll have a cold Civil War until then.

The idiots who wanted fifty independent states will find out what happens when the blue ones re-form into one block.

[whathehell]

8. It sounds like Erica and her friends need more to do...Maybe they

need to be writing more books or making more movies.:eyes:

[southernyankeebelle]

9. Calm down

So you bring this to us and we are all suppose to worry and start rioting in the streets. I don't think so. I new in 2000 Bush stold the election. We let the it go. I pray that this country will not go that route. At least not the democrats because we are better than that. Let the republicans look like asses. The only ones that are left in the republican party are the religious right and the hate groups that hate everyone that isn't white. Shame on what is left of their party. I once had a respect for McCain because I came from a military family. He has no honor left. He left it back in one of his 8 homes.