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

[Carl Remick]

>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