Ishmael Reed

[Albert Rolls]

Is Obama far enough to the left, perhaps in his head but not in his actions. Does that mean I'm not going to vote for him if he's the guy on the ticket. Hell no. I'm voting because if the left doesn't vote the right gets into office and what use is that to me or anyone else, even a whole bunch of people voting for the right. And to just make the contrast between Obama and what you get when the left doesn't vote because the goddamn middle is what used to be the right see what Obama did with the meals-for-kids program this week and then remember that Reagan wanted to define ketchup as a vegetable so that the meals-for-kids program in the '80s could save money by substituting ketchup packages for costly vegetables. And don't think that shit doesn't have a lasting effect (beyond the malnourished generation of kids from low-income families that have to suffer through it. I saw a chef on a cooking segment of some morning news program (a Saturday program, I think) remind the audience that ketchup was a vegetable: that was less than ten years ago. If the left doesn't vote because Obama is a dissapointent, we get Gingrinch, Huckabee, Palin, Romney or whoever. I don't need a president whose only use is to rallying people against him/her. Those people will do more damage than someone whose hopes are at least pointing in the right direction.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 15, 2010 2:41 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Ishmael Reed
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>Joseph Tracy  wrote:
>> Ishmael Reed may enjoy sucking on his own member participation in Scam Obama, (Yes we can , If massa says it's OK). But I will not be joining him.
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>yeah, as a pacifist I'm disappointed in Obama, well, not really
>"disappointed" because I didn't expect him to court assassination by
>repudiating Bush's wars (although wouldn't that be cool! maybe they
>wouldn't kill him off, who knows, it'd be a heckuva ride to try and
>find out...but he never said that was his trip)
>(more's the pity)
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>Reed's "coolest guy in the room" isn't saying coolest guy in the world
>- that'd be, like, oh, Desmond Tutu or Pharoah Sanders...somebody like
>that (Tom Waits?  Thomas Pynchon's in the running too...)
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>Hippest dude in a very uncool room, Obama...
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