Fry predicts a major event will rock President Obama

Published on Monday 25 May 2009 20:46

PRESIDENT Barack Obama will be rocked by a major event as big as the 9/11 terrorist atrocity during his period in power, author and TV star Stephen Fry predicted yesterday.

Raconteur Fry, 51, was holding court in an hour-long session on the theme of America at the Hay Festival of Literature, in Mid Wales.

His talk took the form of a celebration of the US, but he warned that, despite worldwide jubilation at Mr Obama's election, it would all end in failure.

The writer, broadcaster and comedian visited all of 50 states of of the US in his BBC TV show called Stephen Fry in America last year.

Yesterday, he sang Mr Obama's praises and said his election had "reminded us that there is an upside to America."

But he warned a huge sell-out crowd at the festival: "All politics ends in failure. I have met many retired politicians and they are all unhappy and bitter."

Of Mr Obama, Fry predicted: "If he has two terms I do not think the second term will end on an up. He has got a lot of credit, but he will go through it in the end. Nobody can know what will happen in the future.

"Who could have foreseen 9/11? Something will happen like that. Something that you cannot imagine."