"They" will assassinate him if he is elected.

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 on Saturday.

Obama, who is vying to become the first black president in US history, would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him," Lessing, 88, told the Dagens Nyheter daily.

No words on who the mysterious "they" would be.

However "they" will do it and quickly -- but would be mollified if Hillary Clinton were to become president instead.

Clearly the senile dementia has set in.