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  • It seems like someone has not read US History,or know the constitution.

  • bush was trying to say i,m a ape from the tribes of the neanderthal germanic beast

  • Best articulation of federalism I ever seen

  • Ha Ha Ha!

    And Republicans want to bash public teachers and public education...

  • there's nothing really wrong with his answer. tribal sovereignty means its sovereign. no umm..., but..., considering... etc. pretty straight forward.

  • @cowasaki13 nothing really wrong with his answer???..R u Effen kidding me. If i were an Indian I would have even harsher words for you...typical republican, U never admit when your wrong...if Bush came out on CNN today and just said Sorry America.....sorry for the wars, sorry for my no child left behind policy that was an utter failure and sorry for my tax cuts and sorry for my prescribtion drug policy...I should have consulted my father. He would be better off...we are waiting for our apology

  • LOL, IT'S BUSH!!!

  • he cheated his way thru middle school just like he cheated to become president.

  • Buddy, buddy,...the guys a compulsive & neurotic liar, his old club to which he now is one of are an old boy & gals network which is as yet unrepentant! Pretending there is not any giant black elephant-in-the-livingspace!!!

    9/11...INFOWARS dot com Prisonplanet dot tv dot com...Listen all day/nite long!

  • That's why he was merely a figurehead. Darth Cheney was the real guy in charge, issuing decrees on behalf of the corporate fascist interests from his cave. This is all just a facade anyway. The same people who controlled the country then control it now.

  • In bush's defense, most people would melt from that question (especially in front of a crowd). On the other hand, he IS the President of the United States and therefore SHOULD be more than just the AVERAGE JOE.

  • @infectedcalf that is true..BUT....He was the president of the U.S. So that is no excuse. But let's face it. The guy was a complete dumb ass :)

  • A better answer would have been: Hold on a second while I google this

  • @Floydthefuckbag Simply brilliant man

  • Reporter: "What do you think tribal sovereignty means..."

    Bush: [Did he just say sovereign? Am I supposed to know what that means?]

    Reporter: Blah blah blah?

    Bush: "Tribal sovereignty mean that it's sovereign." [Come on what did Ms. James say in social studies - something about 'sovereign entities'] "You've been given sovereignty and you've been viewed as a sovereign entity." [I got this!] "Therefore. the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities"

  • how di he get away with this??...does he still actually walk the streets??

  • @THELOVEHELIX- What a coincidence, because my dog's ass hurts as well...

  • you see, bush doesnt care about american indians or minorities because he has much too important things to think about, like how to sound smart. That's exactly what he's saying.

  • All I heard was sovereign sovereign sovereign

  • AHAHA! He's a Horrible Speaker!!

    He sounds like a useless defined term that's read from a dictionary,

    "Sovereignty - the act or process of being sovereign"

  • Circular reasoning, a politician's best friend...

  • GWB believes tribal govts have been GIVEN sovereignty. Orly?

  • LMAO now you ppl know who coached Ms Teen USA from South Carolina on her speech LMAO. Mystery solved.

  • Did he assume that SOVEREIGNTY is a name of a corporation or a state or just a privilege? I can see, where he is comming from!

  • He failed to answer with any coherence, typical for Bush, but made the biggest mistake when he said you are GIVEN sovereignty. You ARE that and it's the responsibility of others to recognize it. King George III RECOGNIZED our sovereignty, saluted it, after the British were defeated, and left colonial America. You can't give sovereignty as a gift, you are either sovereign or not.

  • @rikoshayrabbit also right at the end he says The U.S. govt is a sovereign entity. I'm still trying to get my head around that one but I guess I'd have more luck trying to figure out where GWB got his education.

  • As russell brand says, 'it's nice that you let him be president, in the UK we wouldn't trust him with a pair of scissors'

  • "Sovereignty means that, Sovereignty". You couldn't make this shit up if you tried.

  • That's a good point GW made. You can't be sovereign and still expect the US to meet your needs. You are either under US jurisdiction or you're not. Tribes have their own government, court and prison system, police force, and culture. They are technically a separate country.

  • @electromagnetician that may be correct but GWB didn't say that in any way. He babbled incoherently. You should be prez and GWB should be a toilet cleaner.

  • His dad was part of resevation Eugenics sterilizing Indain women

  • haha i think its dumb how some people say things about a government voting system but then they dont know anything about it haha

  • omg! i would be so embarrassed after that terrible answer, to the point of wanting to just shrivel up and die right there on the podium; watching this just on the computer still made me cover my face while he said 'sovereignty' over and over; "i dont know" wouldve been a better answer i think

  • dickhead

  • He's using the word to define itself. Not defending his disaster of an answer, but the journalist's question is pretty inane. What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st century? Why would it mean anything different than it did in the 20th?

  • @ESPMV300 maybe because there's a new president. jackass.

  • @assas1n101 Well aren't you Johnny on the spot with insults. What the fuck difference does the election of a new president have to do with a millenium timeline? The question wasn't "How is your new presidential agenda going to affect Tribal Sovereignty", you fucking retard.

  • It is rather humorous BUT I think we are missing the point, It was a trick question and he was trying to avoid letting the cat out of the bag, with what we Now know about him and the damage he caused he did us no favors, it is 1776 all over again.

    Sovereign - a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.

  • the funniest president of all time

  • His stupidity is Obama's fault.

  • @jah0524 and your birth is a ripped condoms fault.

  • @jah0524 ??????????!!!

  • no sarcasm here, honest to god, one of the, if not, best US Presidents to be elected. the bias from the media is just ridiculous, how about what he accomplished as President? don't give me the bullshit of war, and economic crisis. the housing market collapse, Clinton era, the war on terror, really? it's a good thing in the end.

  • dumb dumb dumb  8 years of nothing from this president for native americans. I don't think he knows that there are native americans in the US.

  • BAHAGHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA­

  • o_o

  • the man's an idiot

  • "... you're viewed as a Sovereign entity... O_O"

    Why didn't that guy tell him to elaborate on the statement he made instead of saying "myeh"?

    That's why W.Bush got away with so much. No-one bothered to pull him into line when he danced around issues.

  • I think he would've been able to answer it if he knew what the definition of "sovereignity" is.

  • He basically said: Sovereign is a sovereign because a sovereign is a sovereign for the sake of being sovereign.

  • @BLUDDYknucklez  amen.

  • All right It was a tricky question to answer on the go, I will give him that.

    That being said, jesus christ this man is stupid. When you don't have a clue its better to say it, instead of acting like a complete moron pretending to have a clue. :)

  • What Kanye West should have said was "George Bush doesn't care about Native people."

  • Man these clips will play for a long time. Obama is almost done with 1yr and we have yet to see a clip where he makes complete fool of himself. By this time with Bush, we already had a few dozens!

    Man I still shiver when I think about the last 8 yrs.

  • This is classic. Not as easy a question as it might seem, but he really bonked on the answer. He just said the most obvious thing possible. He might as well have said: "Well the sky is blue, and since it is blue and the sky is the sky, they have to work together as a blue sky." lol

  • @billthebutcher2 it's not an easy question, but as he said, bush is uniquely qualified to answer it.

    could i have? no. but then, that's why i don't belong in the position of president of the united states.

  • @taffysaur I think he was absent that day in school when they discussed the Revolutionary war and the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783. We the people are sovereign to our government which means free from the federal government, we own the government and we can make changes to it as we see fit. I guess if you are a dictator, it has no meaning for you. It's ok if you don't know what it means, but the President should or is suppose to know what sovereignty or sovereign means.

  • bush is playing cpt obvious here, but what is 'tribal' sovereignty anyway and why should anyone care about tribes anyway?

  • Epic fail.

  • Sounded stupid but he stumbled onto a real point. Even though I don't necessarily think it is an entirely practical or ethical one.

  • Thank God for Obama! He's prepared, to answer anything that comes his way, he's not a bumbling fool, like bush!

  • He wasn't wrong.... I think he just didnt realize that anybody out there wouldnt understand what soverign ment...

    he could have said independant at some point... but he didnt haveto... he was saying that they are soverign entities which deal with one another like any the us would deal with any other soverign nation...

  • You're trying MUCH too hard to defend something which is obviously just embarrassing. The man obviously lacks the ability to explain what sovereign means.... It's not that he didn't KNOW what the word means. That isn't what's so funny. It's his super-sized inelegance and in-eloquence, grammatically speaking, and his overall lack of mastery with the English language. This shows a stunning amount of verbal ineptitude for a 21st century world leader. There's a reason the whole audience laughed.

  • i wonder what happend after the clip ended.... how he ended his explination.

  • Hey I somewhat agree but also disagree with you, I believe if he had answered this question the way it should, there would be a great conflict of interest. As of right now everyone in this country believes that they are free but in actuality you are labeled as a "corporate entity" thats why in all your government documents your name is capitalized and it is so that the gov. can fine you, put you in jail, harass you and take money from your labor which is called "Taxes"

  • continued... there is a reason why Sovereign people like native americans are Amish don't have to pay taxes. Our 14th Amendment gave us Citizenship as a Privilege. If your Born on this land you don't need a bureaucrat to give you the Privilege to be an citizen. You are born as a sovereign and unless you claim your sovereignty you will be subjected as a 14th Amendment Citizen with no rights.

    Remember, God Created You not the Federal Government!

  • Yeah, whatever you continue to repeat yourself, we were born sovereign and privilege, and the federal government did try to recreate us, but not anymore. God did create us, we are a people created with the likeness of God. Our traditional ways show you this!

  • What a fucking asshole Bush is.

  • He pulled a Miss Teen SC.

  • Its not like this matters anymore, hes out of office, so he isn't a priority. You guys can make fun of him, crack jokes about Americans, but the bottom line is that you're wasting your time.

  • So are you, you are wasting your time by being on youtube, cheers! You elected him, right! Double Cheers!!

  • Well, there is some doubt as if he actually WAS elected (see Florida). Like I already mentioned, there's no question that he did not win the popular vote. More Americans DID vote AGAINST him.

  • Wasting our time making fun of Bush? I watch reruns of Seinfeld because they make me laugh. I watch Bush reruns also because they make me laugh. I hardly consider it a waste of time, but more of a pastime.

  • Well, hello Mr. Bigcock! I didnt know you was back in town! Stop by for a drink tomorrow night! Maybe it'll take your mind offa me porkin your wife.

  • Mr. Bigcock!? wow I haven't heard that one since... wait, that's what your mom called me last night.

  • Agreed. Now that he's no longer President, I'm amused by this, and not horrified.

  • wow, just wow. you americans voted HIM TO BE A PRESIDENT? lmao.

  • Hey buddy, just so you know, most voting Americans did NOT vote for him, myself included. He did not win the majority vote.

  • @FreakyOrthopedic who got the most votes then?

  • Al Gore

  • @FreakyOrthopedic

    Bush is definitely not a president material, however i thank God that Albert Gore wasn't elected.

  • what about him?

  • @FreakyOrthopedic well the second time he did....

  • @skinny8612 heck no! i didnt even vote for this buffoon the first time;just hearing him speak was one indication of the type of man he is; and listening to him lay out some of the things he intended to do as pres. was enough to turn my head all the way around; also, he was put in for the second time because of cheating; i think i rememeber somebody saying it had to do with the tampering of some of the voting machines in one state

  • @skinny8612

    sorry but he stole that presidency

  • @skinny8612 not all of us. and to be fair he only got the popular vote the second time, the first time he didnt.

  • @skinny8612 we apologize

  • OMG!!!!!!! and he was elected twice!!!!!! OMG!!! God bless America :S

  • my dad was the reporter who asked him this question.

  • yeah?

  • i.........don't know what to make of this

  • cant help but feel sorry for him

  • We First Nations People should be breathing a huge sigh of relief that this mental midget is gone.  We should be annoyed he even got elected - not once, but twice - by an American electorate that is as clueless about the meaning of 'sovereignty' as their former president was. With any sort of luck, Obama will at least explain 'sovereignty' to these non-Natives, and make honest gestures to implement it.

  • Do tribes even have to listen to the US government or can they just say fuck you I'm going to legalize marijuana? Because there is a reservation near where I live and my history teacher from high school who used to be a cop said that if a fugitive went into the reservation he would have no jurisdiction to arrest him if the tribal counsel decided to protect him.

  • this is so painful to watch hahahahahaha

  • Hey Dumb FU@#s, He has know control over any sovereign entity in the US. THEY'RE SOVEREIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!CAN NOT BE TOUCHED!!!!!

  • um, you spelled "no" wrong.

  • this vid made my day. this comment made my week

  • hahahahahaha

  • haha Bush. But seriously, everything he said is technically correct. Tribes are sovereign entities after all.

  • Tribes are not even considered nationalities, left alone autonomous, left alone sovereign.

  • Go back to school Idiot!

  • you obviously don't know what Sovereignty means so before you just say "go back to school", i think you need to do your homework. He just said it..."Sovereign entity" you sheepeoles are all a "corporate entity" and have no rights. Sovereign means that you are the King of your own Body, Soul and Property and no government can take that away from you.

    Watch my video on 'How to Claim your Sovereingty in court and Win!

  • Sovereign means that you are the King of your own Body, Soul and rights to our own lands, and no government can take that away from you. I am a college graduate, the non-natives need to go back to college and learn the rights of our ppl's, first nations, as does Bush! Bush can't even explain Sovereignty, because he doesn't care, learn to care, to him its a joke, as he is a joke, that's why a educated minority (Obama) took his place.

  • Hey Whatitisnative, you think only native american have sovereign rights? Anyone born on this land is Sovereign, White, black, hispanics and thats a fact jack. It is just that in public school or college they don't teach you that. We are all Sovereign because we are all created by God and we are all equal to each other. It is that we the people created Government and we the people are Sovereign

  • What ever..you need to learn about American Indian laws- enroll in one please! We are sover- stay out of our pockets- the casino monies are ours. now surrounding cities want a piece of the pie. hater!

    Anyone born to/on this/our land.....;D dream on you can't educate me..you need to go and educate ur self...please..new world ..........right ;D...........

  • Quit trying to defend Bush, he is an idiot, get over it.

  • LOLOLOLOLOL

  • Hell, I don't even know what sovereignty means...

    :^b

  • mr trahant, it's obvious... bush doesn't care about tribes.

  • The audience was giggling at him!

    lol!

  • I was expecting Bush to go all Caribou Barbie and ask the questioner, "In what respect, Charlie?"

  • HAHAHHAHAHAHA.... OMG.... he dosent even know whats going on..... he dosent even know what sovereignty means...... hahahahaha

  • big step to Obama from this guy

  • im naked ;D 9

  • This cracks me up everytime I see this LOL :P

  • me too, its proof presidents can have fun

  • Notice how he cut off the reporter dude talking near the end?

    I bet he was like, "ok its time to freestyle this bitch up here"

  • lol

  • Black's Law, 5th Ed states: "Sovereign. A Person, Body, or State in which Independent & Supreme Authority is Vested; A Chief Ruler with Supreme Power; A King or Other Ruler with Limited Power.

    Sovereignty. The Supreme, Absolute, & Uncontrollable Power by which Any Independant State Is Governed; Supreme Political Authority; Paramount Control of the Constitution & Frame of Government and it's Administration..."

    I would think that will make ANY devil that's fearful of the truth start to stutter

  • you can not be "given" sovereignty, because we are ALL BORN SOVEREIGN, yet the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, the CORPORATION that we are all a part of NOW, has tricked us into signing ourselves and our children over to the corporation as EMPLOYEES (I.E. SLAVES)...the minute you have your child registered with a FEDERAL birth certificate, or the moment you ask for your SSN (I.E. NAZI NUMBERING SYSTEM *google NAZI IBM). do that & you give up your NATURAL GOD GIVEN SOVEREIGNTY, asking to be a CITIZEN (slave)

  • Did he just use a word to define itself? Several times?

  • George Bush is a fucking idiot. U.S. voters are fucking idiots to have put him in the presidential his first term, and even more dumb to keep him as president for his second term. I love America, but George Bush and the people who voted for him are some dumbasses.

  • your american tho. u went to american schools. american schools only teach about america and nothing else.

  • Anyway, I don't have time or energy to defend other Americans against attacks from some arrogant prick in Australia. I quit. Jeg må være beredt til å reise til Russland. Crebuli, nå kan jeg se at jeg er smartere enn deg. Du og faren din kan gå rett til helvete.

  • oh so now your attacking me.

    oh woooow! you can write in another language. well fucking done!

    fuck off and eat a goats left nut

  • Вот видите, я сказал что я умнее вас. И вы ведёте себя как какой-то шестилетник. Как я уж попросил вас, пошёл на чёрт.

  • Finally, you raving 27 year old who acts like they're 6 and still lives with his mother, that's right, I can write in SEVERAL other languages. That PROVES that I'm smarter than you, and that people should listen to ME. And the fact that you can BARELY spell, (just BARELY), tells others that you barely made it through grammar school, and thus diminishes your already pitiful credibility.

  • Oops. Sorry 29 year old who acts like he's six and still lives with his mother. Sorry, two years off.

  • hahahah u actually think im 29.

    im fucking 17.

    i made my profile age older so i can watch videos where you have to confirm your age.

    and i dont know about u but most 17 year olds i know think its normal to live with your mum.

    and why the hell did you jsut suddenly start attacking me. is it coz u ran out of points to make? i think so

  • I apologize for him. he is making an ass of america. I know america has made some bad decisions but I hated bush since the start. that guy is only furthuring steriotypes that americans think less of other countries but thats not what all americans are like. i am a liberal and i dont think any country is better than any other country. and just dont listen to him. not all americans hate people because of their nationality.

  • For the record I do believe that America is better than all other countries. However I do not believe that we deserve any preferential treatment. The world is a tough place and each country should be and is looking after their interests first and the global community second.

  • good job republicans

    you picked a winner TWICE. the man defines the word by using the word itself

    PURE genius

  • Good job to all of US. The vote for his second term was not even close. Dems outnumber Republicans so blame the country not the party.

  • god what the hell!

    only americans could vote thist ard into power twice!

    i mean what the hell! his first term wasnt even good! his first term was jsut as bad minus the iraq crap. he should be put on trial in the UN international court for the iraq stuff (being dead serious) except the crappy US havent ratified that treaty so they cant send him there.

    GAH!

    FUCK THE U.S!

  • Apparently you don't hear the Americans in the audience laughing at him, and you don't understand something called the Electoral College and haven't heard of the other 51% of Americans who voted against Bush in 2000 and 49% in 2004. You can't ignore half of the country and pay attention to the worst of the US. That's what Republicans here do to everyone else. Is that what you are trying to emulate?

  • yer but only the US could have half the country vote for someone so criminally poor at leading a country let alone the most powerful nation in the world.

    pretty sure most countrues wouldnt have 49% theyd have like 80%

  • They speak English in Australia, yes?

    "yer" should be yes

    "countrues" is countries

    "theyd" is they'd

    Furthermore, most democratic countries don't have outdated voting system or an electoral college as the US. Not only that but the media in most countries isn't shot to shit like it is in the US That you generalize about Americans and pretend that Americans are stupider than other people is only a notch above racism and it still shows a hideous misunderstanding of human nature and politics.

  • dude who gives a shit about fucking grammar and spelling errors. people that argue that dont have an argument at all.

    an outdated voting system still doesnt mean that the worst candidate gets ellected. sure it might be outdated but every legal system has something outdated about it. the australian constitution is unbelievably outdated but IT STILL WORKS THE WAY ITS MEANT TO

    and dont give me that shit about the media. god people always use the media as a scape goat like we all follow the...

  • The Australian voting system is still more modern than the American one, and yes, the system of elections is important. In the UK, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister due to the SDP/Liberal Party and the Labor Parties splitting the vote, which meant that the Conservative party, in that system got the most votes comparatively, and therefore won. That's what happened to the two liberal parties in 2000. But you're too focused on hating Americans so you really don't want to learn anything, so

  • Just remember, that if someone said the same thing about Australians, or Iranians, or Iraqis that you're saying - essentially, that they're all stupid or WHATEVER, I would defend them. Of course I don't defend what governments or the elites do. Humans around the world are the same, but they are subject to different conditions and environments which make them what they are, and in every situation and even within the same family there exists a variety of nuance and contradiction.

  • ...follow the media. most people have a mind of their own and realise half the shit TV/radio and especially internet tells us is fake. every media in the world has this issue in every form. and its never going to change.

    and finally if were all different due to where we live etc then the general american public WOULD be the same (according to your argument) which means the general american public ARE below average int eh brains department

  • I shouldn't really waste my time with you, seeing as how you enjoy wallowing in ignorance. However, the media does matter, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE GET THEIR INFORMATION, and EVEN if people have a mind of their own, they are STILL limited by what they are given to work with! HOWEVER, the United States is too diverse, with too many subcultures, and it has nothing to do with brains but information. Even people WITHIN a country are different, so there are Australians who are just as retarded

  • as Americans. Americans and Australians, and Norwegians have the same mental capacity, but as I said, it's a matter of the flow of information, education, and affluence. The fact that the U.S. has a lower standard of living than Norway or Switzerland means that U.S. citizens probably deal with a worse educational system than Norwegians or the Swiss do, however, that doesn't mean we're the fucking cavemen closeted nationalists and over-patriotic pricks make us out to be. You CAN'T generalize!

  • how come your allowed to generalize then?

    your generalizing whole countries against one another: "The fact that the U.S. has a lower standard of living than Norway or Switzerland means that U.S. citizens probably deal with a worse educational system than Norwegians or the Swiss do"

    god your so stubborn you dont even realise the crap you believe.

    god and i never said to ignore all media sources.

    fuck your ignorant

  • I'm not generalizing, I'm stating a fact. Switzerland and Norway have higher standards of living and therefore have a better system of education. I'm not generalizing about Swiss or Norwegians. You're just pissed because I'm smarter than you. You're just angry because you know that if you lived in the U.S., you'd be just another ignorant Republican. I never accused you of saying to ignore media sources. You're making things up, because you don't care about learning, you just want to hate.

  • Why didn't he just say "i don't know" That would have been alot easier.

  • because he does know, he just didn't want to say the words.... if people knew the truth he and his "clan" would lose the power they assumed over them.

  • yes Love, he knows EXACTLY what he's doing...he's no dummy, that is just the distraction...

  • Um no, he really is that dumb.

  • I doubt that very much...

  • Holy shit he's the most powerful man in the world.

    Is this life some big fucking joke? Sometimes shit seems too ridiculous to be real.

  • It is an ugly bitch. And Bush is a retard.

  • what a damn! idiot!

    Ha lmao

  • we've lost all our cool points. no one will respect us after this debockle.

  • Wow, is he serious? Nice. I love how this man runs our country.

  • LMFAO LOL HAHAHA !!!

  • Sovereignty means that tribes are their own governments'. They always have been.

  • You're not supposed to define a word by using the word...

  • "sovereignty, you see, you're a sovereign entity"

    Rofl much?

  • hahaa if you actually support this guy your a dumbass

  • "journalists of colour"?

    are white journalists see-through?

  • It's a sad thing that this man represents the US

  • he should just of said he didn't know what sovereignty means in stead of sounding so thick :)

  • I get it now!

    Sovereignty is Sovereignty until U. S. laws changes!

    Native Americans remain sovereign at the pleasure of the "decider" and congress.

    In other words Native Americans could be tossed back into the Stone Age and that's why he refused to answer the question.

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