Tuesday, October 26, 2004

 

Fear And Loathing, Campaign 2004

Hunter S. Thompson -- making the empirical argument that the only rational way to deal with the Bush administration is to ingest phenomenal amounts of booze and pharmaceuticals -- returns to a familiar subject, and finds himself pining for The Unshaven One:

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.

Absolutely worth reading. Features the recent presidential debates, RMN, LBJ, a little of both JFKs, Muhammad Ali, a truly ha-ha-strange sex limerick allegedly told by Shrub at Yale, the Reichtag fire, and a few other surprises.

That Hunter -- he might mince his brains, but he doesn't mince his words.

posted by Michael 10:48 PM