I have no intention of getting over it!
December 18th, 2008 by 
Gerald Plessner
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December 18th, 2008 by Gerald Plessner
—–Original Message—–
From: geo….@aol.comSent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:22 PM
To: gerald@geraldplessner.com
Subject: Re: [Plessner] These shoes were made for throwing!
Jerry,
Get over it, will ya. It’s over, he’s got a month left. And we’re not going to judge him by what some dissenter did in Iraq. And I hope we’re not going to judge Obama by what some crackpot says about him, or even by the elected Il. members of his party. I didn’t vote for Obama, but I like what I’ve seen so far. One thing we have to remember, the President can only do, good or bad, what the congress, the judiciary, and the people let him.I have no intention of “getting over it!”
The guys who gave us torture, spying on innocent civilians and hundreds of other crimes are going to be punished and I am going to keep writing about it. The shoe thrower was no crackpot. He exprressed the anger of millions of Iraqis who now hate us for what Bush and his idiots have done.
YOU need to get with it!
Gerald Plessner
The George W. Bush Time Bomb
August 17th, 2008 by Gerald Plessner
Posted in Country of Georgia, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Imperialism, Russia | 2 Comments - Click here to comment »
If you haven’t lost sleep worrying about the possibility that George W. Bush might start World War III before he leaves the White House, now is the time to worry. When it comes to George Bush and Dick Cheney, there is a strong possibility that things might get worse!That is because the confrontation between Russia and the Republic of Georgia is about a lot more than the destiny of two break-away Georgia provinces.
The real reason for Russia’s attacks on Georgia is to respond to the Bush administration’s provocative installation of ballistic missiles in Poland, which is right next door to Russia.
The United States says the rockets are a defense against an Iranian attack on Europe but the Russians don’t believe that. They see the missiles as a danger to their own country, upsetting the previous balance of power.
Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? The United States made Russian Communist ships carrying missiles to Cuba turn around and go home. Every nation has a right to protect itself and bigger nations have a right to a sphere of protection and influence around them. This concept is even included in our Monroe Doctrine which defines our rights and responsibilities in diplomacy and on the high seas.
The fact is that the Bush administration’s initiative to locate anti-ballistic missiles in Poland without considering Russia’s interests was another example of its incompetence and its neo-conservative ideology, which is based upon the belief that America has the right to rule the world as the dominant imperial power of the 21st century. (I am not making this up!)
The United States began negotiations with Poland at a time when Russia was weak, suffering from an unstable economy and angry that the United States and other European countries broke up the former Yugoslavia to create the predominately Muslim state of Macedonia.
The United States and the other nations disregarded the concerns of Russia, which had a long-standing friendship with the former Yugoslavia.
To presume that Russia would remain weak, or that it might not do something in the future to get even, was also foolish.
But the Russians now have the upper hand with the United States having committed the majority of its military resources in Afghanistan and Iraq, and with the price of oil ravaging our economy.
The Russians are now speaking and acting aggressively to defend their interests and in this situation they are acting fully within their rights.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gerald Plessner is a Southern California businessman who writes regularly on the subjects of politics and culture. He would be pleased to have your comments at gerald@graldplessner.com.
Will a president McCain bring four more years of Cheneyism?
February 29th, 2008 by Gerald Plessner
Posted in Dick Cheney, Election 2008, John McCain | Click here to comment »
  Will a John McCain presidency bring four more years of Cheneyism? And will America or the world survive if it does? It’s a serious question!
   John McCain is a nice guy — the sort of fellow you would want to travel with on a long vacation trip. He has an inspiring life story and a great personality but he has a long history of working with lobbyists who serve the interests of major corporations.
   McCane will not come to the White House with the clout or the flexibility needed to purge the building and the government of the neo-conservative Cheney machine or the lobbyists installed by president Bush. Those people now hold important regulatory and decision-making positions which are at the root of every failure and embarrassment of the Bush administration.
   The vice president’s staff is twice a large as the president’s and it has much greater influence on Bush administration policy than the president’s other advisors, according to an excellent series published by the Washington Post. That staff either writes, rewrites of scuttles every White House initiative that does or does not fit into Cheney’s neo-conservative, imperial presidency, corporate-interests-first mentality.
   The vice president has been the force behind our so-called war on terrorism. Through his staff he has guided the development of the policies on torture and the denial of civil rights, the illegal surveillance of Americans, the use of signing statements to void the legitimate actions of the Congress and the selection of Supreme Court justices. The concept of the imperial presidency is Dick Cheney’s guiding principle.
   Along with the vice president’s office, the State, Justice and Defense departments are now managed by neo-conservatives and other rightwing zealots largely chosen by Cheney and his cohorts.
   Every new president has the privilege of keeping or replacing hundreds of appointees who fill critical roles and it will be impossible for a president McCain to reduce the influence of the neo-conservatives now placed in so many critical positions. And there is no indication that he would want to.
   Even a Democratic president will need months to complete that task, giving the Cheney gang plenty of time to continue harming America and trashing our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
   And even if John McCain wanted to reduce their influence — which is doubtful given his admitted willingness to keep American troops in Iraq for as long as 50 years — he would have to replace them with other rightwing individuals and the same kind of lobbyists which the Bush administration has used to advance their corporate supporter’s interests. McCain is just as beholden to corporate special interests as Bush and Cheney.
    Tthat would mean that a McCain presidency would probably be more of the same — a Bush-like administration that cares little for the needs and concerns of average Americans or the world at large.
   In our lifetime we have seen a number of elections described as historic and world-changing. Some of them were. But given the harm that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and their Republican sycophants in Congress have done to America and the world, the coming change in Washington must bring profound change, initiated by a president and a Democratic party committed to bringing the people back into the governance of their own democracy.
   We cannot suffer another four years of Cheneyism.
Another George W. Bush disaster
June 25th, 2007 by Gerald Plessner
Posted in Dick Cheney, George Bush, Israel, Palestinians | Click here to comment »
I am going to tell you something that will probably make some of my friends very angry:
The administration of George W. Bush has been a disaster for Israel.
From the very beginning of his presidency, George W. Bush has taken a hands-off approach in trying to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Following a policy of not talking to supporters of terrorists, the president has had almost no influence on either Syria, Iran or any other player in the Middle East.
The neo-conservatives who controlled Bush foreign policy believed that it was in Israel’s and our best interests to let the Palestinians suffer and the Syrians and Iranians go their own way. The result has been that their own way included financing, training and arming groups like Hezbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine. Read the rest of this entry »
Did Dick Cheney patronize the DC Madam?
May 11th, 2007 by Gerald Plessner
Posted in Corruption, Dick Cheney | Click here to comment »
I have never forwarded an article to my email friends but this is just too delicious to pass up!
Finally, the Republicans have a reason to impeach Cheney that is consistent with their stand on family values. Getting more than 3300 of our fine military men and women killed in a war created out of fantasy hasn’t been good enough.
(This story is not yet confirmed by another media source. Though it is believable, it may not be true.)
Gerald Plessner
May 8, 2007 — Cheney on DC Madam’s list. Yesterday, WMR reported on the DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s list: “WMR has been informed that the CEO of a major corporation is a former CEO but, nonetheless, the aforementioned extremely high-level official of the Bush administration. The individual, who is definitely “newsworthy,” reportedly engaged the services of Palfrey’s escort firm while he was the CEO and maintained a residence off Chain Bridge Road in the Ballantrae neighborhood in McLean, Virginia, a few blocks from the headquarters of the CIA.”
WMR has confirmed with extremely knowledgeable CIA and Pentagon sources that the former CEO who is on Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s list is Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney was CEO of Halliburton during the time of his liaisons with the Pamela Martin & Associates escort firm. Palfrey’s phone invoices extend back to 1996 and include calls to and from Cheney. Ironically, in 2000 Cheney was appointed by Bush to head his Vice President selection committee, a task that enabled Cheney to gather detailed personal files on a number of potential candidates, including Bill Frist, George Pataki, John Danforth, Fred Thompson, Chuck Hagel, John Kasich, Chris Cox, Frank Keating, Tom Ridge, Colin Powell, and Jim Gilmore, before he selected himself as the vice presidential candidate.
The White House saw to it that ABC/Disney killed the DC Madam’s story before yet another scandal swamped the Bush administration. Cheney is departing Washington today for a trip to the Middle East, where he will visit the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the USS John C. Stennis in the Gulf.
Three neo-conservative horsemen of the Apocalypse
April 22nd, 2007 by Gerald Plessner
Posted in Corruption, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle | Click here to comment »
(First installment exposing the neo-conservative conspiracy to subvert American foreign and defense policy)April 20, 2007 – It’s beginning to feel like a recurring nightmare — a bad dream that keeps coming back over and over again. The three neo-conservative horsemen of the Apocalypse — Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and John Bolton — are back on television telling us how to rule the world. And what’s even more disturbing is that our president and vice president depend on these people for advice!
PAUL WOLFOWITZ
Paul Wolfowitz was the Assistant Secretary of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld. Wolfowitz is the one who refined the rationale for the war on Iraq. A key member of the Project for the New American Century, Wolfowitz is perhaps the most important neo-conservative after Dick Cheney.Among other deceptions in the run up to the war, Wolfowitz refused to answer Senators’ questions about Bush administration plans for the invasion of Iraq. He then refused to tell the Senate what the war would cost before it was stampeded into voting to support the war. Wolfowitz is a leading neo-conservative intellectual. He has been involved at every point in their subversion of American foreign and defense policy that has brought the United States to its current status of distrust and disrespect in the world.
As Assistant Secretary of Defense under the hapless Rumsfeld, one of Wolfowitz’s key roles seems to have been to keep generals and experts in post-war planning out of the preparation for the war. Read the rest of this entry »
It is now imperative
February 4th, 2007 by Gerald Plessner
Posted in Dick Cheney, George Bush | Click here to comment »
The Constitution, Article II, Section 1, paragraph 8
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: — “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
February 4, 2007 – It is now imperative that the Congress of the United States remove from office president George W. Bush and vice president Richard Cheney for their failures to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Read the rest of this entry »