Ishmael Reed

[Henry M]

I've been saying exactly those things, Albert, but the Nader-voting
lefter-than-thou crowd says that I must be a running-dog-lackey for
the bourgeoisie, and the right just knows that I'm a Socialist.

AsB4,
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Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>wrote:

>
> 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
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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)
> >
> >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...)
> >
> >Hippest dude in a very uncool room, Obama...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >"Three things in life are important. The first is to be kind.  The
> >second is to be kind.  And the third is to be kind." - Henry James
>
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