Amazing isn't it that the GPS/SatNav systems on Air Force One don't have any mapped routes to Northern Minnesota?
Native Americans across the country -- including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file tribe members -- voiced anger and frustration Thursday that President Bush has responded to the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history with silence.
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"From all over the world we are getting letters of condolence, the Red Cross has come, but the so-called Great White Father in Washington hasn't said or done a thing," said Clyde Bellecourt, a Chippewa Indian who is the founder and national director of the American Indian Movement here. "When people's children are murdered and others are in the hospital hanging on to life, he should be the first one to offer his condolences. . . . If this was a white community, I don't think he'd have any problem doing that."
I guess Preznit Down Low figures still figures that the Native Americans don't need to hear from him, since he pretty much summed up his understanding of all Native American issues once already:
"Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a ... you're a ... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity."
No wonder the rest of the planet thinks we've lost our collective minds ...
Asked Thursday about Bush's silence, spokeswoman Dana Perino said that he plans to dedicate part of his Saturday radio address to the Red Lake tragedy and that he is following the case closely through the FBI and the Justice Department.
Yeah, like how he followed intel events closely via the National Security Counsel after getting a report which was loosely titled "Osama's Gonna So Fuck UP America"...clearing sagebrush and mesquite, and getting to bed early like the gut liddle Fuehrer dat he iss...
Culture of Life my ass ... Culture of Political Consequence.
posted by Jo Fish on 03.25.05 at 12:07 AM
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I guess the Native Americans don't have enough votes to factor into The Leader's Lebenskultur.
posted by: Nick on 03.25.05 at 02:10 PM [permalink]
Yep. He's timely allright. And just as speedy with the condolences as he was when that tsunami came through Asia back in December.
It's interesting to watch the leaders of the reich wing slowly back down over Schiavo the past few days.
Like the ordinary politicians they are, they're reacting to the burn of the 70+% polls against them.
Now, they have to contend with their conservative Christian (aka "right wing Christ killing pharisee") base, who have been spun up (into a froth-at-the-mouth, self-righteous, pious fury), and will demand blood.
They'll demand the blood of Pretendent Bush an DeLay et al, for giving in to the liberals.
And now we hear Bush has someone trying to distance him from signing the Schiavo bill, saying he didn't really want to, etc.
In summary:
CAN'T be dragged in front of the camera to mumble condolences over the tsunami disaster;
CAN be bothered to knock off hunting for peyote buttons and psilocybin mushrooms
-- I mean, clearing brush! -- at his ranch to fly to DC using our tax dollars to make his sloppy X on bandwagon photo-op legislation.
