Hunter Thompson on Clintons - He would stab his friends in the back.

[Ichingcarpenter]

"Nixon stabbed his Enemies in the back,


but Clinton did it to his Friends.

His lust to inflict Punishment surpassed even Nixon's,
and he put more people in prison than Caligula.

He had his own brother locked up & he refused to pardon
his old friend Webb Hubbell.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster --


Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend."


Which the Clintons just did to the Democratic Party.

[shadowknows69]

1. I think Hunter would have liked Obama

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. I do too

I miss his brutal honesty


“I don’t like Clinton for political reasons,” he says,
“I think certainly Starr is by far…

if you're looking for a bad guy here,
a villian, Starr is a Nazi.

Clinton is just a mushy-mouthed
treacherous politician who’s given sex a bad name.


The real trouble here is going to come when the power
has been conveyed to police and courts, grand juries,
and other law enforcement for your own good.

It reinforces the fourth Reich mentality:
'The police are always right, what are you complaining about?'

http://www.rkpuma.com/gonzo.htm

[truedelphi]

11. Me three! n/t

[OzarkDem]

16. Yes, Thompson also was a sexist.

[NMMatt]

20. Of course he was talking about Bill Clinton

Who is a sex addict, but that's okay... we've already come to understand that in your warped world being male = being sexist, unless said male supports Hillary.

[cali]

21. actually, he really wasn't

I knew Hunter many years ago, and he was extraordinarily kind and respectful to me. He was a good listener.

[karynnj]

18. I think so too

I know from what he said endorsing John Kerry, he loved him. He spoke of knowing Kerry for 30 years. The ending sentence was that Kerry was a good man with a brave heart and even George Bush's friend would not say that of him. (His review of the debates was hilarious.)

[Ichingcarpenter]

25. Two of his best friends over the years said this on who Hunter would endorse

Question: Who would Hunter S. Thompson vote for if he were alive?

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis is confident that he knows the answer.

“... I have a feeling that if he were alive today he would be writing for every journal that offered him cash — because he wouldn’t write for nothing — on behalf of Barack Obama. I think Barack Obama would have struck a chord with Hunter ...” Braudis said.

Given Thompson’s volume of political writings and voting record, this is probably a good assumption.

http://www.vaildaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080214/AE/724938585/-1/rss04&template=printart



Michael Cleverly (front) and Bob Braudis, authors of "The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson," trade stories of their buddy Friday night at a booksigning at Samana Lounge in Vail.

[Cha]

2. Wow! No wonder bil gets all testy

about Obama standing in their way back to the big white house.

[saltpoint]

3. If only Mr. Thompson wouldn't beat around the bush so much and just

come right out and tell us how he thinks!

_ _ _ _

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. He still speaks from the grave to us

"The genetically vicious nature of presidential campaigns in America is too obvious to argue with, but some people call it fun, and I am one of them. Election Day -- especially a presidential election -- is always a wild and terrifying time for politics junkies, and I am one of those, too. We look forward to major election days like sex addicts look forward to orgies. We are slaves to it."

"Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency. Richard Nixon comes quickly to mind, along with Ronald Reagan and his ridiculous 'trickle-down' theory of U.S. economic policy. If the Rich get Richer, the theory goes, before long their pots will overflow and somehow 'trickle down' to the poor, who would rather eat scraps off the Bush family plates than eat nothing at all. Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will. It goes back to preindustrial America, when only white male property owners could vote.

[saltpoint]

6. Hi, Ichingcarpenter. I blame Hunter S. Thompson for almost killing me.

An older cousin shoved Thompson's books FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS into my hand as I boarded a flight from Indianapolis to LaGuardia. Business flight, 5:30 p. m. or so, lots of serious-looking people with calculators and briefcases. I was in jeans and a sweat shirt, suddenly asked to read a book I'd never heard of.

I began reading once we were airborne only to discover myself kind of chuckling and then laughing harder until somewhere into the first 20 or so pages, I was writhing in my seat, laughing so hard I could barely breathe.

Needless to say the business people -- my fellow passengers -- were alarmed.

Excellent book.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Meet him once in Colorado with a friend who knew him

I stood in awe and kept my mouth shut, knowing that
if I said anything, he would obviously find me a fool as
compared to him. He was rather pleasant by the way.

He was damn right about almost everything he talked about.

INCLUDING THE CLINTONS AND POLITICS.

[saltpoint]

15. Yeah. He was right on Nixon, and McGovern, too.

And nearly everything else.

Uncanny sense of the caper from several angles at once.

And a compelling go-for-the-jugular writer besides.

[Quixote1818]

7. K & R

[grassfed]

9. Thank you Hunter

Dia duit.

[Lord Helmet]

10. David Geffen said the Clintons lie with such ease it's troubling.

[truedelphi]

12. Watch "Primary Colors"

Yeah it exaggerates.

But that being said,Joe Klein lets us have an insider's peak at the way that the two Clintons normally hardwire their brains.

Bill is all touchy-feely with the women folk, and Hillary is all ready to 'See how we can leak this to the press, in a way that it will get out to the public, but can't be traced back to us."

And this was Klein's observation from twelve years ago!

[Medusa]

13. And David Geffen is a Hollywood Mogul

who is one of the most feared people in the entertainment industry! Preach it Brother David, preach it!

[rinsd]

17. David Geffen also does not like the great unwashed using his beach.

[blm]

23. And Bill Clinton wants our ports to go to same Dubai royals who started BCCI.

So which should be scrutinized more closely?

[NightWatcher]

14. Fear and Loathing should be the Clinton's new campaign motto.

It has been their modus operandi. I wish the Good Doctor were here to watch this election. Like he said re:1972, (politics) is better than sex...confessions of a political junkie

[mathewsleep]

19. hunter is the man!

i've loved everything he's ever done.
well, except the last thing he did, but whatever...

[BigAnth]

22. Leave it to HST to sum it up

so concisely and precisely. He would love the circus that this Democratic primary has become.

[ellisonz]

24. R.I.P.

[anamandujano]

26. Drug addled brain.