[lbo-talk] Hunter S. Thompson: Kerry's my man

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 24 14:05:39 PDT 2004



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Rolling Stone - October 20, 2004
>
>[full text at
><<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575>.]
>
>... Back in June, when John Kerry was beginning to feel like a winner, I
>had a quick little rendezvous with him on a rain-soaked runway in Aspen,
>Colorado, ... and we reminisced about trying to end the Vietnam War in
>1972.
>
>That was the year I first met him, at a riot on that elegant little street
>in front of the White House. He was yelling into a bullhorn and I was
>trying to throw a dead, bleeding rat over a black-spike fence and onto the
>president's lawn. ...

But was that Dr. Thompson's own rat or just a borrowed one?

Carl



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