Hunter S. Thompson suicides?? Here's one of his last spins on Bush ..

[NVMojo]

You will be missed --Gonzo Journalist ....

Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson sounds off on the fun-hogs in the passing lane

By DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON


Armageddon came early for George Bush this year, and he was not ready for it. His long-awaited showdowns with my man John Kerry turned into a series of horrible embarrassments that cracked his nerve and demoralized his closest campaign advisers. They knew he would never recover, no matter how many votes they could steal for him in Florida, where the presidential debates were closely watched and widely celebrated by millions of Kerry supporters who suddenly had reason to feel like winners.
Kerry came into October as a five-point underdog with almost no chance of winning three out of three rigged confrontations with a treacherous little freak like George Bush. But the debates are over now, and the victor was clearly John Kerry every time. He steamrollered Bush and left him for roadkill.

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.

That is an unacceptable failure for hardballers like Rove and Dick Cheney. On the undercard in Cleveland against John Edwards, Cheney came across as the cruel and sinister uberboss of Halliburton. In his only honest moment during the entire debate, he vowed, "We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."

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.

Immediately after the first debate ended I called Muhammad Ali at his home in Michigan, but whoever answered said the champ was laughing so hard that he couldn't come to the phone. "The debate really cracked him up," he chuckled. "The champ loves a good ass-whuppin'. He says Bush looked so scared to fight, he finally just quit and laid down."

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?rnd=1099009920793&has-player=true

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

1. I read that article in Rolling Stone...

... thanks for linking to it. This passage really stood out for me, given how HST felt about Nixon:

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.

Nixon hated running for president during football season, but he did it anyway. 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.

You bet. Richard Nixon would be my Man. He was a crook and a creep and a gin-sot, but on some nights, when he would get hammered and wander around in the streets, he was fun to hang out with. He would wear a silk sweat suit and pull a stocking down over his face so nobody could recognize him. Then we would get in a cab and cruise down to the Watergate Hotel, just for laughs.

Wow.

[NVMojo]

2. Wow is right!! Here's what he said about Bush and Kerry 04...

Your neighbour’s grandchildren will be fighting this stupid greed-crazed Bush-family war against the whole Islamic world for the rest of their lives if John Kerry isn’t elected to be the new president on Tuesday. - Hunter S. Thompson

[Shopaholic]

3. From Salon, 2003:

Thompson did what he's always done: speak the truth about American society as he sees it, without worrying much about decorum. "Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads?" he writes, referring to the people currently occupying the White House. "They are the racists and hate mongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis."

[NVMojo]

4. he despised the Bush family robinsons

[Erika]

5. George HW Bush invokes naivity at Tsunami damage

He's never seen anything like it. Evidently the Bush's don't want to look at poor America. It might mess up their beautiful minds.

Clinton looked at him with a " wake up, stupid," look.

[tinanator]

6. never seen the satellite photos of Iraq or Afghanistan post MOAB?

I doubt it, he's just lying again business as usual. If anything GHWB aka he who shall not be named and/or the Man Behind the Curtain is simply jealous he couldnt beat that death toll in a shorter period of time.

[NVMojo]

7. or he knew * well enough to really hate him ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1612362

[tinanator]

8. sorry I was taking the previous post as a GHWB quote

its late and im stupid.
not to mention bummed the fuck out.

[marcologico]

9. holy shit. These guys are out of control.

Anybody who thinks this was self inflicted has been drinking too much add-water-and-stir.

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[marcologico]

11. Could Hunter Thompson's "suicide" be payback for exposing Gannon?

"You take out one of our guys, we take out one of yours."

Just seems like BFEE logic.

[thebigidea]

12. actually it was that other Yalie conspiracy freak...

Gary Trudeau wanted him dead to boost the sales of old copies of "ACTION FIGURE!" on ebay. He had the motive - they were ancient enemies in a death dance.

or something.