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—–Original Message—–
From: geo….@aol.com

Sent: 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

Do Americans need any more evidence of George W. Bushs standing before the world —- or his place in history —- than to see him dodge accurately-thrown shoes during a press conference in Baghdad?

Except for the heavy responsibilities carried by the Secret Service —- which protects the president, vice president and their families —- one is tempted to encourage Americans to send the president a set of the oldest, most beat up, cheapest shoes in their closet.

And while we are at it, we should elect John McCain the honorary chair of this tribute, what with his seven or eight homes (I lost count). John McCain could send as many pairs of clod-hoppers as he has bedroom closets! He would almost certainly win first place in that competition.

With all the propaganda being generated by the Republicans disclaiming the irrefutable truth that George W. Bush is our worst president ever, a collection of ugly, ill-fitting, thread-bare, smelly, preferably useless, mortally-wounded shoes would validate the judgement of that courageous, decisive reporter in Baghdad, who —- come to think of it —- ought to get a trip to America to try out as pitcher for one or any of our professional baseball teams.

Now everything I have written above may be cute but, if we take it seriously, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.

George Bush and Dick Cheney have given us a war that has killed thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians —- men, women, children , parents and grand-parents —- and thousands of our own men and women who have served so valiantly and have been neglected by this president, his vice-president and those false patriots who believe that this terrible war has been an act of high morality.

Perhaps we should give each of them a pair of those shoes as well.