Monday, November 03, 2008

Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss 'Will Spark Civil War"

The ANNOTICO Report

 

Erica Jong told  "Corriere della Sera"  that there is GREAT FEAR that Voter Machine Fraud, perpetrated by Republican operatives which is relatively simple, by the surreptitious replacement of one computer chip, in a voting machine, and could rob Obama of the US Presidential Election.

 

She does not mention Voter Suppression, Voter Intimidation, Voter Manipulation, by allocating fewer voting machines in Democratic districts, by using older machines , that have a greater tendency to break down, thus in some cases creating a TEN HOUR WAIT TO VOTE !!!!!!!!  I won't even mention "Dirty Tricks", like distributing fliers telling Democrats to vote Nov 5, the day following the election,  

 

Erica Jong is best known for her first novel, Fear of Flying  published in 1973, created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires, and 7 other Biographies, 8 Novels , 6 Poems, and has received 4 awards: Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Prize (1971); Sigmund Freud Award For Literature (1975);  United Nations Award For Excellence In Literature (1998); Deauville Award For Literary Excellence In France

 

Erica, just let me know where you want me to show up to storm the barricades !!!!!!!!! 

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

The New York Observer

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.

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."

 

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