I assume this is wishful thinking

because then she and her similarly-convicted friends can get all smug about "See! We knew America's just a bunch of bigots!" and feel warm and fuzzy about how tolerant they are.

If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview published here Saturday.

(OTOH, I remember thinking the same thing about W in Nov 2004, and with all the "execute him for his crimes" crap I read daily, I still kind of expect it. So.)