HS Thompson is damn confident in a Kerry win

[Worst Username Ever]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?rnd=1098401809437&has-player=false

[glitch]

1. Thanks for posting - Ihere are some snips

"We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon -- which wise people said was impossible, but so what? It was fun. We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river.

That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House."

[Worst Username Ever]

2. CLASSIC hunter:

on meeting Kerry for the first time:

"That was the year I first met him, at a riot on that elegant little street in front of the White House. He was yelling into a bullhorn and I was trying to throw a dead, bleeding rat over a black-spike fence and onto the president's lawn."

LOL!

[Frances]

3. Wow.

What an article. Thanks for the post.

[Champion Jack]

4. Great Stuff!!!!

"Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all. The tide turned early, in Coral Gables, when Bush went belly up less than halfway through his first bout with Kerry, who hammered poor George into jelly. It was pitiful. . . . I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him "Mister President," and then I felt ashamed.

Karl Rove, the president's political wizard, felt even worse. There is angst in the heart of Texas today, and panic in the bowels of the White House. Rove has a nasty little problem, and its name is George Bush. The president failed miserably from the instant he got onstage with John Kerry. He looked weak and dumb. Kerry beat him like a gong in Coral Gables, then again in St. Louis and Tempe -- and that is Rove's problem: His candidate is a weak-minded frat boy who cracks under pressure in front of 60 million voters."

[Ernesto]

10. "talked like a donkey"

Hey I like donkeys! In fact I am a life long donkey. bush is a retarded chimp, not a noble donkey.

[disgruntled_goat]

5. this caught my eye

"It was horrible to hear him tell [this one limerick that
* ran into the ground for 2 years)," said the classmate,
who spoke only on condition of anonymity. He lifted his shirt
and showed me a scar on his back put there by young George.
"He burned this into my flesh with a red-hot poker,"
he said solemnly, "and I have hated him ever since. That
jackass was born cruel. He burned me in the back while I was
blindfolded. This scar will be with me forever."

my question: did * burn/scar sooo many pledges that this guy
can remain anonymous? 

[Forkboy]

7. dont take that part as truth

like most HST there are parts that aren't meant to be taken seriously.He leaves it up to us to figure out which parts :)

[DemBones DemBones]

21. I have read that Dubya got into trouble at Yale because he

came up with the idea of branding the Deke pledges. SOURCE BELOW:

I just got up and got my copy of "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush" by Kevin Phillips from another room. I checked the index for Delta Kappa Epsilon and found two references. On p. 48,
Phillips writes,

"As president of the DKE house at Yale, he got in trouble for lifting a Christmas wreath from a store and for branding pledges as an initiation."

The other reference to DKE tells how G.W. became president of DKE just as his father had been. Like father, like son.

"Like father like son, One term and he's done."

[DemBones DemBones]

24. Seems like I read elsewhere that they used coat hangers to brand the guys

who were pledging DKE. But I don't have a source on that and I'm not spending any more time on it now. I do think that if Kevin Phillips says it, there's documentation.

[Forkboy]

25. Well then

I guess maybe the other poster should take it as truth :)

[liberalmuse]

6. Oh, the joys of reading HST!

I love this man. To think he has done every drug known to man and he still has billions of genius brain cells. Thanks for posting a link to this awesome article. It made my night!

[Forkboy]

8. Just read and posted this elsewhere

Great article.He is still my favorite writer of all time :)

[Laelth]

9. Nice Link, Thanks.

I especially liked this part ...

Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a "liberal" candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected "American people") don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.

Ain't that the truth. :dem:

-Laelth

[bagimin]

11. ...on the advice of my attourney..The Doctor is In!

That was great.

[Missy Vixen]

12. This was my favorite part

I laughed my butt off at this one:

"I endorsed John Kerry a long time ago," he said, "and I will do everything in my power, short of roaming the streets with a meat hammer, to help him be the next President of the United States."

Amen, amen and amen.

God be with you, John Kerry, and Hunter S. Thompson, thank you so much for the laugh. I needed it.

Julie

[Forkboy]

13. I loved that part too

"meat hammer" will be finding it's way into many of upcoming conversations :)

[bpilgrim]

14. Brilliant! -----------------------------> Kerry in a LANDSLIDE!

thanks for sharing :toast:

"Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?"

...

"Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him."

...

"The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government but if the American people want it that way. "

...

"In 2000, when they sent Jim Baker down to Florida, I knew it was all over. The fix was in."


...

"That was the year I first met him (JFK), at a riot on that elegant little street in front of the White House. He was yelling into a bullhorn and I was trying to throw a dead, bleeding rat over a black-spike fence and onto the president's lawn.

We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon -- which wise people said was impossible, but so what? It was fun. We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river."

:wow:

kerry in a LANDSLIDE :bounce:

peace

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

15. Hunter has completely lost it ! Oh dear...

...and Im lovin' it!

"Bush signed his own death warrant in the opening round, when he finally had to speak without his TelePrompTer. It was a Cinderella story brought up to date in Florida that night -- except this time the false prince turned back into a frog."

[Poisonskin_com]

16. ahaha

treacherous little freak

[johnfunk]

17. "Republicans have never approved of democracy,..."

"... and they never will. It goes back to preindustrial America, when only white male property owners could vote."

All too true, Doctor Gonzo, all too true....

[johnfunk]

18. Hunter Thompson -- shock! -- endorses Nixon (in a manner of speaking)

"Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

"If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a 'liberal' candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today -- and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected 'American people') don't rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd."

[Jacobin]

22. Nixon WOULD be a very left wing liberal today

It's an obvious truth. He was for and pushed:

Clean Air/Water Act....the one that actually cleaned things up.

Opened a dialogue with communist China, which back then was like inviting Fidel Castro to marry your daughter today.

Invoked PRICE CONTROLS

Would not have even ENTERTAINED the notion of severely cutting taxes on the top one percent.

[annabanana]

19. It's like a "howdy" from a dear old friend

that you knew "back in the day" who is truly still crazy after all these years. I always feel like I've come home when he touches base with us.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Thompson is awesome.

He's a doctor of journalism, dammit.

[LibertyorDeath]

23. Oh man I love him.

"Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will. It goes back to preindustrial America, when only white male property owners could vote."

"I endorsed John Kerry a long time ago," he said, "and I will do everything in my power, short of roaming the streets with a meat hammer, to help him be the next President of the United States."

"Which is true. I said all those things, and I will say them again. Of course I will vote for John Kerry. I have known him for thirty years as a good man with a brave heart -- which is more than even the president's friends will tell you about George W. Bush, who is also an old acquaintance from the white-knuckle days of yesteryear. He is hated all over the world, including large parts of Texas, and he is taking us all down with him."

[Redneck Socialist]

26. Great stuff!

Thanks for posting it.

[rocktivity]

27. Nice to know that he still has a few brain cells left.

Immediately after the first debate ended I called Muhammad Ali...but...the champ was laughing so hard that he couldn't come to the phone. "The debate really cracked him up," (his friend) chuckled. "The champ loves a good ass-whuppin'. He says Bush looked so scared to fight, he finally just quit and laid down."
During the second presidential debate, I said that if this were a boxing match, Gibson would have stepped in and stopped it by now. But Bush wasn't scared--he was lost. Without a wire, without a teleprompter, without guaranteed softball questions and audience adoration, he wasn't in control. That's why he couldn't function, so--to paraphrase another great boxer--he tried to run, but he couldn't hide.

This year's first presidential debate was such a disaster for George Bush that his handlers had to be crazy to let him get in the ring with John Kerry again. Yet Karl Rove let it happen...
Well, Rove couldn't have Kerry calling Bush a chicken for the entire month. The only thing that could have excused him was from the next two debates was an international crisis, but that in turn might have opened the door to him looking incompetent on foreign policy. And speaking of foreign policy, I predicted that forcing it to be the subject of the first debate could come back to haunt Bush.

If Rove saw foreign policy Bush's strongest (or Kerry's weakest) subject, he should have left well enough alone and kept it for the last debate. Bush would have been more accustomed to Kerry's style by then, and by chanting "9/11" and "flip-flopper" without falling down, he could have guaranteed himself a tie if not a "comeback" victory.

Overall, not a bad effort, considering it's from an LSD-infested loony liberal whack job!

:smoke:
rocknation