Ventura: I’ll waterboard Hannity into saying Obama best president ever

After ripping George W. Bush and expressing his desire to waterboard Dick Cheney, former governor Jesse Ventura continues his media storm, this time in a sitdown with Huffington Post.

The ex-pro wrestler minced no words, as usual.

Americans have changed "in that we have a paranoia that there’s a crazy Arab around every tree," Ventura told Marcus Baram. "We’re walking on eggshells now, when in reality you have as much chance of running into a terrorist as winning the Powerball."

He ripped into conservative talkers, such as Bill O’Reilly: "I always want to go on (his show), I’ve got something, I’m going to blast him for something. I don’t want to reveal what it is so he can’t prepare. But he doesn’t have the courage to have me on."

On Sean Hannity, whose show Ventura guested on this week: "He’s scared to death of me. It was over in a few minutes and that was it."

The former Navy SEAL said he’d relish an opportunity to waterboard Hannity, a procedure he endured himself during military training: "I’ll bet him a thousand bucks that I can get him to say ‘Barack Obama is the greatest president’ — if I get him to say it, he’ll give the thousand to charity and if I can’t, I’ll give the money to charity."

Ventura didn’t spare Democrats either, on torture: "They condoned it. Nobody stepped forward and said this is torture. Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide."

The always quotable Ventura has made memorable appearances on Fox News and The View in recent days, blasting the use of torture and questioning the official story of 9/11, which caused co-host Brian Kilmeade to walk off the set of Fox & Friends.

Baram’s interview of Ventura is available at this link.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/22/ventura-ill-waterboard-hannity/

He said he do it for charity, but he didn't say when.

Everybody lauds Nader as the Third party messiah, but honestly, if Ventura decided to run in 2012, he could do some real damage. After all, the GOp seem destined to either put in a weak person like Romney, or a firebrand like Palin. Of course, there will be a lot of people who still hate Obama on the left for not being Hugo Chavez, so both Libertarians and greens can rally behind V. Laugh now, wait til 2012.

It appears he likes Obama and he wouldn't win. He won an open seat as Governor where the DFL ran a weak candidate (Skip Humphrey is not his father) and the GOP ran turncoat Norm Coleman. Perfect storm for Jesse. As a matter of fact, I think he was surprised as anyone on election night. It wouldn't surprise me if he ran in 2016. He's not that old.

I have begun to suspect one of his parents was a periodic cicada.

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I like a hell of a lot of what he's said recently, and about other things, but the guy is not stable. Being a Governor is one thing, having command of the world's most powerful military with nukes is another. His penchant for going off on 911, fair or not, would probably be enough to take him out of the running.

That's what I like about Jesse.

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