A real treat for Belfast Telegraph readers (and all of us), Hunter S Thompson sets out his view of this year’s US election campaign.. and calls it for Kerry. As he says “I look at elections with the cool and dispassionate gaze of a professional gambler, especially when I’m betting real money on the outcome”. There are just too many great lines to quote. Every political commentator should read it.. read it and weep.
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