Posted on 10/30/2008 7:54:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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.
Here's a translation of Jong's more spirited quotes to the Milan-based Corriere, as selected by Rocca.
"The record shows that voting machines in America are rigged."
"My friends Ken Follett and Susan Cheever are extremely worried. Naomi Wolf calls me every day. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can't cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves."
"My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium."
"After having stolen the last two elections, the Republican Mafia…"
"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets."
"Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters, to the Patriot Act."
She also laments that not all of America's men of letters share her devotion to Obama.
"Tom Wolfe and John Updike are men of the right and Philip Roth is at this point a hermit who leads a monastic life in Connecticut, far from everything and everybody."
Luckily, she said there is her and Michael Chabon, who, she says, have "taken the place of Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer respectively."
They have the same political sensibilities, she said, but a better "sense of humor."
*keeping my fingers crossed*
We’re long overdue for it, and it’s time to clean up the Marxist anti-American crap from coast to coast.
Either way it’s coming so I say bring it.
This was posted already today, but, thats not why I’m here. Whatever you do, do NOT post a current picture of Erica. Please, I beg of you.
If so, most will be from blacks.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’m glad Jane Fonda’s back hurts.......
I’ve already told everyone near and dear to me to stay far away from certain parts of town election eve and for several days if Obama loses.
doesn’t she wish!
I am always ready for a good target practice session.
Locked and Loaded.
This is another attempt at intimidating people into submission. A vote for McCain is racist. Welfare is a racist code word. bla bla blah
Bring it on.
And the Republicans will kick the Democrats' ass once again!
Next question!
Do they not realize that “bitter clingers” and other conservatives, moderates, PUMAs and Reagan democrats own probably 80% of the firearms? We have most of the veterans and the military, as well. What “Civil War” do they think there will be under those conditions?
LOL! Well, I guess I better go stock up on my BushieMcHalliberton ammo and prepare for the onslaught of unarmed neocommunists!
Erica Jong: Obama Loss 'Will Spark the Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run in the Streets'
And what does she think a rigged, fraudulent election of an ineligible candidate will do, cause games of tiddly winks to break out?
“Hey Dude, I want my country back!
Notice they haven’t threatened to leave the country again....”abroad was so.......violent...dirty...those people are so....poor....”
Fear of Dying.
getting you in right at the beginning of what promises to be a “zipless f*@k” thread!
Some of you may not be old enough to appreciate the literary reference, but that’s ok. Just more to add to your reading list/
I saw the other thread, and I second the motion. The only thing worse is that damn Helen Thomas pic that surfaces way too often here!
Thats ok most rep or conservatives have the legal guns
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