Curses! The plot is out!

[james_davis_nicoll]

(CNN) -- An elected county judge in Texas is warning that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and is calling for a trained, well-equipped force to battle the United Nations troops he says Obama would bring in.

It's funny but while I can easily think of a Second Civil War novel that used a thinly disguised Hillary Clinton, I have yet to be send one featuring Obama in an analogous role.

In this classic SF novel



The Texans are motivated mainly by being Texan; their political police come across nearly as warm and lovable as the Stasi.

(This was one of the books that made me notice how often American Vice Presidents are presented as a villains, even administrations otherwise presented sympathetically; the Texans kidnapped the President with the aid of the VP, who has an eye on the top post for himself)

Comments

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

I refuse to google my suspicion... but I'm willing to bet a lot that said stories exist, if nothing else as fanfic on websites like Stormfront.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Boy, "Stormfront" would be an unfortunate choice of name for a naive weather-controlling superhero. Maybe he could team up with that character I never got to run, the one who gets really huffy when people misinterpret the manji on his costume.

[rwpikul.livejournal.com]

Someone actually has oopsed into using Stormfront for a character name, (she is even involved in weather control[1]).

Luckily for her, any contact her world had with Earth was pre-web.


[1] Well, she does cloud delivery and distribution. The actual control is up to the local weather teams.