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Tribal Leader: Obama Is the 'First American Indian President' (COWABUNGA!)
Weekly Standard ^ | 12-5-2012 | Michael Warren

Posted on 12/05/2012 3:02:43 PM PST by smoothsailing

December 5, 2012

Tribal Leader: Obama Is the 'First American Indian President'

Michael Warren

President Barack Obama spoke to the White House Tribal Nations Conference of Native American groups at the Interior Department Wednesday. The chairman of the conference, Brian Cladoosby of the Swinomish Nation, reportedly suggested that Obama is the first "American Indian" president.

"Think about it for a second," Cladoosby said, according to the pool report. "The president loves basketball. He has an Indian name, he knows what it's like to be poor and he hasn't forgotten where he came from. And his theme song is 'Hail to the Chief.' I think he definitely qualifies as the first American Indian president."

Earlier pool reports stated Obama was greeted by the group enthusiastically, including a shout of "four more years" from the audience. The president touted his adminstration's efforts to "[expand] economic opportunities" and encouraged Congress to support Native American small businesses.

Update: According to a transcript of Obama's remarks, there may be something to the claim. The president memorialized a recently deceased leader of the Crow Nation, Sonny Black Eagle. "Sonny Black Eagle adopted me into the Crow Nation during my 2008 campaign," Obama said.


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To: BenLurkin

I knew someone would post that!


21 posted on 12/05/2012 4:15:32 PM PST by Andy'smom
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To: smoothsailing

Ah, yes.

Chief Steaming Panty-Load of the Lying Dog tribe.


22 posted on 12/05/2012 4:20:20 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (John Winthrop's "City upon a Hill" just became a midden heap. Infested with rats and other vermin.)
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To: smoothsailing

Brian Cladoosby talks like he has been at the fire water again.


23 posted on 12/05/2012 4:29:58 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
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To: smoothsailing

If being Indian was important, then the media would have noticed that Governor Palin’s husband, children, and grand child, are all tribal members, instead the media has sometimes tried to portray her as a leader of white racial purity.

I even had an internet argument with the writer of such a news story. The publisher wanted to print my responses, which I eagerly agreed to, but the writer blocked it.


24 posted on 12/05/2012 4:30:54 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb Fischer's successful run in Nebraska)
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To: smoothsailing

“The president loves basketball. He has an Indian name, he knows what it’s like to be poor and he hasn’t forgotten where he came from. And his theme song is ‘Hail to the Chief.’ I think he definitely qualifies as the first American Indian president.”
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The only part this idiot got right is that Obma likes Basketball.

Obama was never poor, he attended a prestigious expensive school.
Maybe Obama has never forgotten where he came from—but the rest of us don’t know.
Hail to the Chief is not this crapheads theme song it is a tune played for all Presidents.


25 posted on 12/05/2012 4:42:30 PM PST by Venturer
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To: smoothsailing

Well, Thelma and Louise were driving a Thunderbird so I guess this all wraps up somehow, Karma-wise.


26 posted on 12/05/2012 4:49:03 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: dragonblustar

i think his indian name is two dogs .......


27 posted on 12/05/2012 7:48:59 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: smoothsailing

I must have been unknowingly prophesying this afternoon. I was talking to someone about Obummer and Mooochelle, and I referred to her as his SQUAW. Looks like I was correct. What’s HER tribe, I wonder?


28 posted on 12/05/2012 8:21:38 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: Tucker39

Frowns Like Mad Buffalo


29 posted on 12/05/2012 9:50:10 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Walking Eagle (too full of sh*t to fly)


30 posted on 12/06/2012 5:10:11 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Most of the Indians I know who voted for Obama are either on the Res or elders living off of tribal benefits.

Still, history repeats, and Great Half-white Father speaks with forked tongue...

31 posted on 12/06/2012 5:14:10 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I find this refreshing, especially coming on the anniversary of Fermi’s successful chain reaction in CP-1, the reactor built under the stadium stands in Chicago in 1941

I have a piece of that reactor. (a slice of graphite block embedded in lucite)

32 posted on 12/06/2012 5:16:46 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Chief Steaming Turd of the Dog Log Tribe...


33 posted on 12/06/2012 9:30:36 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: smoothsailing
Chief Steaming Turd of the Meadow Muffin Tribe...
34 posted on 12/06/2012 9:37:48 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: smoothsailing

Billy Clinton was an honorary member of the Cherokee tribe out of Tahlequah OK, kind of like Ward Churchill.


35 posted on 12/06/2012 9:53:19 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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