"I want to begin by saying that Hillary and I are profoundly shocked and saddened by the tragedy today in Littleton, where two students opened fire on their classmates before apparently turning their guns on themselves.
I have spoken with Governor Bill Owens (ph) and County Commission Chair Patricia Holloway (ph) and expressed my profound concern for the people of Littleton. I have spoken to Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and who, along with Attorney General Reno, is closely monitoring the situation. I’ve asked the attorney general and the secretary of education to stand ready to assist local law enforcement, the schools, the families, the entire community during this time of crisis and sorrow." - President Clinton, April 20, 1999 the day of the Columbine tragedy
" " - President Bush to date on the March 21, 2005 school shooting in Bemidji, Minn.
Are the quotes around what you know to be President Bush’s thoughts or feelings about the situation? Perhaps they are around what you know to be the responsibility of a president for or toward an incident such as this?
I think Bush is still too busy causing tsunamis and worldwide enslavement of children. Maybe he’s selling firearms to teachers and school administrators so that they may protect themselves. Nah…that would imply personal responsibility for ones own safety. I feel much safer knowing the police will write a report over my unarmed corpse after I’m senslessly murdered. Would that be too late?
You cant say he is bad just because he hasn’t had some big press conference, but its definatly not a kind gesture- especially after the way we have treated the indians since 1609…
“This can not be tolerated in a multicultural democracy” - prime-minister Balkenende after a molotov-cocktail entirely destructed a muslim school in a small village in The Netherlands, in the night after movie-maker and columnist Theo van Gogh was violently killed in the middle of Amsterdam by a fundementalistic muslim terrorist.
" " - prime-minister Balkenende after again a molotov-cocktail without much impact on the same muslim school (now relocated next to a firefighter-station) in a small village in The Netherlands last monday-night.
But still that place is full of teens wearing proudly the loNSDAle clothes.
President Bush mentioned the school shooting and expressed condolences during his weekend radio address President’s Radio Address
See, the President does have a heart and compassion.
The school shooting hasn’t made a lot of news. It’s kind of been a back burner story. Seems that those school shootings are old hat now. The Terri Schiavo story has completely knocked the school shooting story off the TV newscasts since the day of the shooting.
Though I still not understand why fundemetalistic christians desperatly need to have their hands on gods mighty will.
Okay, I live in the 1st country in the world with regulation and law on this. A helping hand on a quick and painless dead,… in stead of a sick and slow starvation… then you’d would have a heart!
But no, preventing euthanasie and gay marriage has higher priority than let’s say the average prisoner that get’s a trail with no charges or lawyer, outside US area so you can violate the Geneva convent.
I can fully understand why the Dutch invation law was made by the puppeteers of Bush (so that the US can violate NATO partner agreements) after Bush disaproved the International Court in The Hague.
Dubya didn’t bat an eyelid when the secret service broke the news to him about the 9-11 attacks. Do you think he’d care about some low-income Indians shooting each other up on a reservation in nowhere, Minnesota? Now if these were white kids in a nice suburb of some metropolis, you can bet he’ll be on the airwaves the next morning, pouring out his support to the people.
You’re confusing the President’s words with his feelings. In front of the press, the President is no better than a news anchor: he just reads what’s been written for him. Furthermore, there was a bit of heckling from the press before anything was said about the tragedy. Real compassionate.
The Columbine school shotting got a very different reaction from the news and the public than the Red Lake school shotting. At Columbine they had a sea of news trucks camped in front of the school for days after the shooting. The shooting was a topic for every TV newscast for days. Usually it was a top story. I saw the Red Lake shooting on the news the day of the shooting and haven’t seen it on the local TV news since. Shows like Nightline have covered it and so have other special newscasts, but the general local TV news has ignored it at least outside of Minnesota. I’m assuming that it’s a big news topic in Minnesota.
I’m not sure why that is. Maybe it’s because the TV news had better access at Columbine and they were able to get their news trucks there. They had helicopter news footage and live footage of the kids running out of the school. There was none of that in Red Lake, at least that I saw.
It’s more interesting to try to figure out why the country as a whole is not reacting to the Red Lake shooting with as much concern rather than trying to figure out why the President isn’t making a big production and trying to feel our (apparently nonexistent) pain.
That’s why I said it seems that school shootings like that are old hat now. They don’t seem to get the attention they once did.
The thought that the “rich” don’t pay enough taxes is the biggest load of bull!
I make 50K a year, and I pay absolutely no federal income tax, in fact I get a tax credit payed to me. I feel like I’m taking welfare. I do have 5 kids which certainly helps. Still, people making less than this are paying little or no taxes. The upper-middle and upper class pay the majority of the taxes.
Who are the majority who vote to increase taxes (ie voting for liberals)? The people who are paying little or no taxes.
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