| “ | "Although Ms. Lessing is passionate about social and political issues,
she is unlikely to be as controversial as the previous two winners,
Orhan Pamuk of Turkey or Harold Pinter of Britain, whose views and
comments on political situations led commentators to suspect that the
Swedish Academy was choosing its winners in part for nonliterary
reasons." In the past few years, these "nonliterary reasons" have been
specifically linked to authors and or political figures (in the Peace
Category) who have questioned the United States' involvement in Iraq. NATION Magazine | The Political Doris Lessing | ” |
" . ... suspect that the
Swedish Academy was choosing its winners in part for nonliterary
reasons." LOL Here's Lessing this weekend.
| “ | Barack Obama will be assassinated, says Doris Lessing
The 2007 Nobel Literature Prize winner Doris Lessing has opined that
the future for presidential candidate Barack Obama, should he win the
United States Presidency in November, is not good.
Obama "would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of
president. They would murder him." Lessing told the Swedish Dagens
Nyheter Daily that was published Saturday.
| ” |
Ms. Lessing has historical reason to think so, doesn't she? Here's our six assassinated/nearly assassinated Presidents:
Assassinated
|
Political Party
|
Assassin
|
Abraham Lincoln
|
Republican
|
John Wilkes Booth, Democrat sympathizer
|
James Garfield's
|
Republican |
Charles J. Guiteau, Fruit Loop
|
William McKinley
|
Republican |
Leon Czolgosz., 1900 anarchist, possible model for Moveon.orgers
|
Teddy Roosevelt
(shot, but survived)
|
Republican
|
John Flammang Schrank, Fruit Loop |
John F.Kennedy
|
Democrat
|
Lee Harvey Oswald - Castro/commie lover
|
Ronald Reagan
(shot, but survived)
|
Republican |
John Hinckley, Jr., Fruit Loop |
There
you have it. Of the six, five
were Republicans. Of the three who were shot for political
reasons, including the lone Democrat, all were killed by
leftists/democrat. Blow me Doris, you racist bitch, I know what you were
inferring.
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