Native Americans criticize Bush's silence on 2nd deadlist school shooting

"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."

"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.

Guess the Republicans have written off the Native-American vote.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7292684/

I don't think that Bush thinks of poor NA's as his -base-.

Sue

* won't say anything until the backlash hits the CON and he is forced to do damage control.

To bad he didn't make a visit anyway, though.

Someone might have told him it was time for Terri to be with Great Spirit before he got on the plane and took his $37,000 trip back to D.C.