Bush gets soverized on the Web
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Published Wednesday 11th August 2004 17:33 GMT

One of our favorite George Bush blunders has found a home on the Web
courtesy of Democracy Now.

The web site has captured audio and video feeds of Bush answering questions
in front of a Unity conference held last weekend. The gaffe of note took
place when Bush was asked about his views on the tribal sovereignty of
Native Americans. Bush's answer to the question resulted in an eruption of
laughter from the crowd. The giggles seemed to elicit a brief grimace from
Bush, but didn't stop him from continuing on and swallowing his foot whole.

Reporter Mark Trahant asks Bush, "Mr. President you have been a governor and
a president, so you have unique experience looking at (tribal sovereignty)
from two directions. What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st
century?"
Here Bush gets very literal.

"Yeah. Uh, tribal sovereignty means that - it's sovereign. You are a . . .
you have been given sovereignty, and you are viewed as a sovereign entity."

The laughter begins.

"And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and the
tribes is one between sovereign entities."

Indeed.

In a question and answer session after the president's speech, Jesse Jackson
tried to shed more light on the discussion.

"The president explained (tribal sovereignty), you just didn't understand.
Sovereignty is sovereignty. You understand? It's like in sovereignenity. If
you are on a reservation, you have been soverized."

Ain't that the truth.

The video and audio feeds of the fun are available here.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/10/149259




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