Doris Lessinbg's prediction--the death of a black US president?

I have been really busy these days and did not update my blog. I also missed the democratic presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama (a black man) on CNN last night.

Anyway, now it seems that Obama has great potential to win Hillary and become the Democratic presidential nominee, who then will compete with the Republican presidential nominee McCain and the winner will be the next president of the United States of America. McCain is a weak candidate (and his “US troops in Iraq for 100 years” suggestion?! This man is crazy). So many people believe that the country will have their next president from Democratic Party, Obama or Hillary Clinton. No matter who finally gets to the White House, it will be a big change in American political history: the first female or a black president in the country’s history.

I personally think that Hillary is more experienced and has better understanding about international issues than Obama. But some American people say that they are tired of the “Bush-Clinton-Bush (-Hillary Clinton?) presidential pattern. The elder Bush (the father of George W. Bush) was US president for 4 years. Then Bill Clinton took his place and stayed in the White House for 8 years; after that 8 years of George W. Bush’s government and now Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton’s wife is running her campaign so the family will return to their old home, the White House. More Clinton years? Some people think it will make the legacy look more like a dynasty. People are tired of the politicians from Washington and are looking for change, for fresh faces. Some people think that Obama’s fresh face represents the real changes that they are looking for. Fresh face will bring real changes; the logic is right but change for the better or worse? I am not saying that if Obama is elected as the president, bad changes will happen. It’s just that people should be more careful with their decision. From promise to action, still a long way to go.

Martin Luther King made a wish: “…one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood”. He’d be very pleased to see Obama doing presidential campaign. I do believe that now in the US, people judge a person not by the color of his/her skin. But are Americans really ready to have a black president for the country? The 2007 Nobel Prize owner for literature, Doris Lessinbg, made a prediction, saying that if Barak Obama is to be elected as president, he would be assassinated. Lessinbg is in England so I do not know why she is so sure about this American issue. But what some Americans think about this prediction? The following are quotes from an American’s blog and the responses left by visitors to that blog:

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Marc:

So this lady in Englad - Doris Lessinbg - who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2007 is predicting that if Barak Obama is elected president - he’ll be assassinated. Unfortunately I agree with her.

This country (my country - the U.S.) is filled with crackpots, nut case, bigoted racist assholes - and they would go ballistic if we elected a Black Man - even a half-Black man.

You never hear about left-wing nut cases assasinating people or blowing buildings up. Yet the right-wing is full of these kind of people. They call themselves ‘militia’.

That’s the truth about this country. They reelected Bush - they don’t seem to care about anybody but themselves and their ignorance gets them issuing second and third mortages on their homes - which then then lose. These kinds of folks are what fills up the states between both coasts and inhabit what we call the red states - the states that elected Bush - twice.

So what to do?

Lessing says we should elect a Clinton/Obama ticket.

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February 9th, 2008 at 11:35 pm

This is a hypothetical assessment. There are people who hate all sorts of other people. But does fear of being attacked make us not dare to take the next step? This is precisely what their aim is. If we just back down because of those possibilities or even credible threats, we may as well forget about elections as a whole because they would have dictated the way we live our lives.

Doug K. Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 10:11 am

NJ Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 11:29 am

Jeff Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

 

This last comment, well I got something to say about Chinese taking jobs in big companies away from Americans in US. Chinese who can get job offers from big American companies in US usually have Master and/or Ph.D. degree in science/finance/accounting. They are not illegal immigrants who are taking easy jobs at low wage that common American people can do. When I started my studies at an American university, a friend of mine who studied in Chemistry Department told me that when they had graduate student meetings, if the professors did not attend, they spoke Chinese. And the Computer Science department, graduate students were half Indians half Chinese, no Americans at all. Maybe the person was talking about American big companies’ manufacture outsourcing. I doubt the new president, whoever s/he is, can resolve the problem since it’s not only an American issue and it came with the development of the economic globalization worldwide.

Anyway I will follow up the campaigns. By the way, I think George W. Bush looks like a monkey and now if Obama becomes the new president, these two presidents have something in common.