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Hunter S. Thompson's Lawyer-Suicide Was Not About President Bush
Salon.com Politics 'War Room' ^ | 2.22.05 | Tim Grieve

Posted on 02/23/2005 8:06:09 AM PST by gopwinsin04

Hunter S. Thompson's attorney tells the Boston Globe the reporter's suicide had nothing to do with the results of the 2004 election.

Thompson wasn't happy about President Bush's re-election of course.

He compared him unfavourably to Richard Nixon and seemed terrified that the American people might want George W. Bush to be their president.

Thompson predicted that Kerry would beat Bush in November, and feared what the alternative would say about America.

The cynical among us might say it's the first time something bad hasn't been blamed on President Bush.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: aspencolorado; deadlib; goodriddance; hst; huntersthompson
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Thank goodness that was cleared up..
1 posted on 02/23/2005 8:06:11 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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This is the PRE-buttle...
2 posted on 02/23/2005 8:07:21 AM PST by frogjerk
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Oh, I see - he must have bet a lot of money on his election prediction, went broke and became despondent.


3 posted on 02/23/2005 8:07:48 AM PST by GSlob
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I just assumed that he didn't have the manhood to face his old age.


4 posted on 02/23/2005 8:07:54 AM PST by cripplecreek (The crippled stool is the cadillac of poopin stools.)
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To: gopwinsin04

I would be happier if it were because Bush were elected.


5 posted on 02/23/2005 8:07:57 AM PST by bahblahbah
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To: gopwinsin04

Don't really care one way or the other. All I know for sure is a degenerate, alkie and drug addled leftie has checked out.


6 posted on 02/23/2005 8:08:02 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: gopwinsin04

I think that suicide is a very valid form of "protest" that more commies should use.


7 posted on 02/23/2005 8:08:23 AM PST by pissant
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To: gopwinsin04

It wasn't? (darn)


8 posted on 02/23/2005 8:08:23 AM PST by theDentist (The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: cripplecreek

Or he just wanted to go out like Hemingway, and knew that it would add to his 'legend.'


9 posted on 02/23/2005 8:08:55 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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He was an idget. I read that he was on the phone with his wife and the son was on the other room when he put the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. He wanted it that way. Can you be more self absorbed and selfish than that?


10 posted on 02/23/2005 8:09:06 AM PST by Thebaddog (Dawgs off the coffee table.)
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To: cripplecreek

Maybe he just couldn't face being wrong one more time.


11 posted on 02/23/2005 8:09:14 AM PST by Howlin (Free the Eason Jordan Tape!!!)
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To: gopwinsin04

it was a non-event.


12 posted on 02/23/2005 8:09:37 AM PST by ken21 (the terrorists didn't blow up the new york times because the times supports them. /s)
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To: gopwinsin04

He was a self absorbed ass.


13 posted on 02/23/2005 8:09:41 AM PST by sierrahome ( Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?)
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To: gopwinsin04

That is my guess also.


14 posted on 02/23/2005 8:10:12 AM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: gopwinsin04
Thompson predicted that Kerry would beat Bush in November, and feared what the alternative would say about America.

Wrong on both counts, I note. But at least he saved the Social Security trust fund a few bucks by checking out early.

15 posted on 02/23/2005 8:10:52 AM PST by Brilliant
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Wow, I didnt know his family was in the house..unbeliveable


16 posted on 02/23/2005 8:11:12 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: sierrahome

Personally, I think he was overrated and not even in the same class as Hemingway.


17 posted on 02/23/2005 8:13:07 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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Frankly, I thought he was dead a long time ago.


18 posted on 02/23/2005 8:13:15 AM PST by RushCrush (History will be VERY kind to GWB. WJC? Not so much.......)
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To: gopwinsin04

Call me crazy, but the fact the man was a self-medicating gun nut might be a more likely reason for what happened.


19 posted on 02/23/2005 8:13:42 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines (Ann Coulter for Cornell Trustee:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344035/posts)
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He'd show up at events drunk out of his gourd..I think he had checked out about 25 years ago


20 posted on 02/23/2005 8:14:35 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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