If the hypocrysy wasn't so shameless I might try harder to at least TRY to see things from the wingnut point of view .... or maybe not. It hurts my brain when I try to do that.
Bush claims to be a compassionate conservative. I say bullshit but never-the-less, that's his claim.
So why if he is so bloody compassionate and understanding did it take him so long to offer his condolences to the victims of the Red Lake school shooting.
Native Americans are pissed off, and I don't blame them.
Native Americans Criticize Bush's Silence
MINNEAPOLIS, March 24 -- 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.
Three days after 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed nine members of his Red Lake tribe before taking his own life, grief-stricken American Indians complained that the White House has offered little in the way of sympathy for the tribe situated in the uppermost region of Minnesota.
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The reaction to Bush's silence was particularly bitter given his high-profile, late-night intervention on behalf of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman caught in a legal battle over whether her feeding tube should be reinserted.
"The fact that Bush preempted his vacation to say something about Ms. Schiavo and here you have 10 native people gunned down and he can't take time to speak is very telling," said David Wilkins, interim chairman of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and a member of the North Carolina-based Lumbee tribe.
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