Author Erica Jong scaring voters for Obama.
Perhaps we have finally reached a campaign low, as Obama supporters are warning of “blood in the streets” and a new “civil war” should Obama lose on Tuesday. We do not know if these scare tactics will resonate with American voters, but they are an interesting move at the end of a campaign.
Blood for Obama?
Enter Erica Jong, author of some note who tells in an interview of her correspondence with fellow liberals Jane Fonda, Ken Follet and Susan Cheever. She speaks of the Republican Mafia, and the violent rioting that would occur if John McCain wins the presidency. She claims that the left’s favorite voodoo dolls, Dick Cheney and George Bush, summoned troops back from Iraq to quell the violent uprising.
“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.”
The references, of course, are to inner city black people and anti-American anarchists rioting violently if their candidate is unable to win. The idea is the voter should picture images of the Rodney King riots, and vote Obama if they know what is good for their health. The Obama nation is depicted as a vengeful one, filled with raging supporters who will take to the streets in unlawful acts of pillaging and mayhem.
This Nostadamus of fear-mongering, Erica Jong, blogs for the Huffington Post. For a biography, you can read all about her here.
I suppose that the violence on Tuesday night would become forever known as the Great Obama Riots of 2008. God help the nation.
Pictured: Rodney King Riots, 1992
October 31st, 2008 at 10:11 am
If this takes place, then we have become a third world country pitching a fit because we didn’t get our way. And of course it will be Bush’s fault that Obama lost. It couldn’t be that America simply rejected his ideas of “Change and Hope”.
If this happens, it will set race relations back 20 years and that will be the fault of the black community. Sen. Obama needs to address this now before Tuesday or it will be too late. But maybe he is really that angry and wants this to happen.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:13 am
George, Barack Obama would enter office as the most divisive president in US history. How much damage to race relations has he already done?
October 31st, 2008 at 10:48 am
First of all, those predictions are demeaning to black people. Black people just don’t go off and riot every time things don’t go their way. That’s insulting.
Second, no matter what happens, we are a country is deeply divided. I don’t think we will go to war over it, but I do see our halves going deeper into division after this election.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:21 am
You really do need to draw a line between the Obama campaign and supporters of an Obama presidency.
Did the McCain campaign hit a low when one of his supporters carved a B into her own face?
October 31st, 2008 at 11:29 am
I’m gonna flow with Iggy on this one.
We are, no doubt, divided.
I suspect there will be a lot of suppressed resentment from blacks that will act to only make tensions worse.
But I believe the majority of blacks honestly love their country as much as anyone else, maybe with a different vision, but are not a bunch of ghetto derainged anarchists that will do a nationwide Watts on us.
Lets not go there gentlemen.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:34 am
Luckily, there’s no chance of violence because Obama will win handily and the right will realize the majority of American’s voted for him.
What is less clear is how damaged the Republican party will be after the election and how long it will take to recover.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Jackson.
Study some history.
The country has been through far worse and yet you guys still have always lost a majority of presidential elections. Which shows that we recover just fine.
If Obama wins he will be serve only one term once everyone gets done pulling the red hot poker from their ass.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
No doubt Iggy, it is demeaning. I think this is something some supporter wish for more then anything else.
As for Obama going into office as the most divisive president in US history, do you remember 2000 and Bush. We have had 7 years of hate Bush, blame Bush, impeach Bush and evil Bush.
Why can’t the losing side unit behind the winner? We use to do that in America and move on.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Obama will lose this election and the inner cities will erupt. Gun sales are up 25% and it will be a mess. In the end the African Americans left will be Americans of African descent.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Short memories all around. Check your history books. If this country made it through 1968, we can make it through anything.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I thought that if McCain wins everyone was just gonna move to Canada ?
October 31st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This is a sad statement for the kind of man who pretends to be a ‘post racial candidate’. The whole campaign has been built on divide and conquer.
All it would have taken would have been for Obama to stand up and actually SAY something. He could tell his constituents that this kind of talk is incendiary and unacceptable to him. If he were the leader he claims to be, he’d take this situation in hand and offer leadership.
But then, maybe he believes that winning is worth whatever methods are used to win.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Any of the mods care to comment on why my post that included a quote of the U.S. Declaration of Independence was not approved? I believe my argument was straightforward and logical. Perhaps I made too good a point?
October 31st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Lets be clear people. Barrack Obama had nothing to do with this statement. Erica Jong is a loon. Also.. Obama never claimed to be “post racial”. That was a tag attached to his campaign by media outlets looking for an easy catch phrase to sum up his improbable run at the White House.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Naw Joe, suggest read the comment policy (carefully) and try again. As much as Obama supporters believe in Rovian conspiracies, rest assured that machine filters are incapable of assessing your good points.
Todd, Erica is a typical liberal, isn’t she? Huge Obama supporter. Even knows Jane Fonda.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
MCCAIN, fair enough. Didn’t realize that certain words couldn’t be uttered (I don’t mean any sarcasm here). I’ve tried to create a new version of my comment that complies with the website’s policies:
“The references, of course, are to inner city black people and anti-American anarchists rioting violently if their candidate is unable to win.�
Your assumption that only Blacks might potentially protest/riot is ridiculous. I am a decently well-off, white individual and would feel the need to protest/riot if the election turns out to be rigged. Sometimes our government no longer serves us, as expressed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.�
Also, how can Anti-American government Anarchists (who by their nature oppose all form of government and cannot be specifically Anti-American) have a candidate?
October 31st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Joe.
They did a pretty good job ushering Obama to the front.
Maybe all his followers are Manchurian candidates ?
November 1st, 2008 at 2:58 am
Republican rigged machines that votes Republican. Coincidence?
November 1st, 2008 at 3:13 am
If Obama does lose, and if this is followed by massive social unrest, I do not think it means that there are people who simply cannot accept that they have lost.
The polls may get things wrong, by a few percentage points, but not by double digit percentage points. The feeling on the street will be that Obama did win but was robbed by a rigged electoralal system. It is this that will bring bring people out on the streets.
Not a failure to accept defeat, but the indignity of simply doing nothing in the face of treason and thereby allowing criminals to hold the entire republic to ransom.
Listen to what the polls are saying… Obama is far ahead in the support he enjoys and this should show in the election results , give or take a few percentage points.
November 1st, 2008 at 5:23 am
Nick.
You fail to realize that the left has a bad habit of not showing up to vote due to over confidence in a margin or simple complacencey.
I’ll even go so far as to say its laziness on a good part.
I mean really, most of these voters expect someone to pay their mortgage and bills so why would they get off their rump to vote ?
November 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
To Nick: your apparent faith in the honesty of pollsters and those who report polling data is staggering! If Obama loses, one possible explanation could be that the ones doing the polling and reporting pre-election simply lied in order to make their pet candidate look more viable than he was.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:01 pm
McCain - I’ll let you and yours wrestle with what is typical or atypical.
My point, THE POINT, was that Barrack DID NOT say anything about a civil war if he loses.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 am
[...] Obama Supporters: Civil War, Blood if Obama Loses She speaks of the Republican Mafia, and the violent rioting that would occur if John McCain wins the presidency. [...]
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 am
Okay then, let me start practicing my shooting skills with my M4, gonna have me some fun then
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:58 am
The truth of the matter is that the majority of blacks, world wide, have a deep dislike, distrust and even a hatred toward all white people and even white looking spanish people, for the last 400 hundred years of slavery and Jim Crow laws to their race. To wake up every morning and know that the history of your race has been conquered worldwide and sold into slavery by their very own people is not exactly a proud tradition. T This deep dislike towards white people