Did Anyone See the Answer Bush Gave

[louis c]

at the Unity Conference yesterday to the question about Tribal Sovereignty asked by a native American?

He sounded like a child giving the question back as the answer. I remember Barney Fife from an Andy Griffith Show episode reciting the preamble to the Constitution to Andy this way. He kept making believe he knew the answer by repeating the core of the question. Don Knox was acting, George Bush is really an idiot.

I'm hoping that some one here at DU can possibly edit that question from the conference, which appears on C-Span. It seems I don't have the technological knowledge to do this. The entire link is over an hour, and this question is in the Q&A section.

I also believe it is a segment on Olberman, so maybe I'll try there, also.

[depakid]

1. It sounded much worse than this:

due to all the pauses, uhs and grunts, but here ya go:

"Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a --
you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities."

[no_hypocrisy]

3. * gives new meaning to the term in logic, "circular reasoning".

[depakid]

9. Yep, he's the poster boy

[leftchick]

15. add about 15 uhs and

5 more "sovereigntys" and it is about right. I feel sorry for the person who has to clean up those WH transcripts.

[flordehinojos]

17. Mario Moreno, screen name CANTINFLAS, made his life's living

making pictures where his characters used the same kind of reasoning or logic that Bush displays in this answer whe he mouths off many words but says absolutely nothing. Bush has done this so many times before too ... and to think that his mom and dad hail him as the greatest gift to mankind! x(

[dbt]

2. Here's a text version, courtesy of wndycty:

talk about your forked tongue!

Many in the crowd laughed when Bush struggled to answer a question about what tribal sovereignty means for Native American tribes in the 21st century.

"Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities," Bush replied.

Every time you think he can't appear any MORE STOOPID, he DOES!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[louis c]

12. I know the text

makes him sound stupid, but to actually see him struggling on stage and to listen to the laughter of the audience is priceless.

[Blue Gardener]

4. Oops, there goes the Native American vote

The only group of voters he hasn't pissed off is the Billionaire Club.

[prodigal_green]

6. Well, almost

http://www.responsiblewealth.org

on edit: did anyone else hear the reporters laughing?

[the Kelly Gang]

13. oh yes he has..read the bobeacon thread

[slor]

5. I did not see the part...

of the video where the man shouts "liar". Does anyone know at what point of the video this happens? TIA

[No Mandate Here.]

8. About five to ten minutes before the questions. <nt>

[soothsayer]

18. 19 minutes in n/t

[No Mandate Here.]

7. It was amazing, and it should be available all weekend, but

doesn't yet show up on today's schedule. There are several gaps on both One and two, though.


It has been reported elsewhere that the 'official' transcript was edited to take out his mangling of 'sovereignteigntitity'. Also, Scotty Dog was busy yesterday afternoon making sure we got the clarifications of what *'s answers really meant. What a joke.

So quick on his feet. It will be enlightening to hear both candidates next to each other. I hope the questions in the debates are not rehearse-able. Actually, I hope there are debates. I don't trust * and Rove at all. Perhaps this will be the date of the September surprise ?

[radfringe]

11. Scotty Dog clarifications

the fact that Scotty Dog, and other GOPers have to do the clean-up and provide a "re-explaination" of what bush* said is a sad state of affairs

I have this image in my head of the bush* minders standing behind stage with "pooper-scoopers" ready to clean up the messes

[radfringe]

10. read-compare-contrast

transcripts:

bush* http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/08-06-2004/0002226945&EDATE=

Kerry http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42212-2004Aug5.html

[Shopaholic]

14. We should run that as a campaign ad

and conclude by saying "Is this the man you want running the free world?"

[radfringe]

16. meanwhile about his renaming the war on terra to

'the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies and who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world'

has it occurred to anyone that this may be the title to some report he happened to see?