Free Republic

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.