‘The other side is mad. They are demonizing President Obama for rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. There they were on the Sunday talk shows demonizing him for his decision of last Wednesday.
‘Wednesday, as I watched the CNN coverage of the announcement from the State Department, there was the other side ready to go on the attack as soon as the network switched to them. They were all lined up wearing their Congressional best business suits, visibly angry. One could hear it in their voices. They want the country back! Led by House Speaker John Boehner, who declared:
“This is not the end of the fight.”
‘Then yesterday, there was Newt Gingrich, fresh from his upending victory in South Carolina, demonizing President Obama for rejecting the pipeline. He claimed President Obama does not care about putting Americans to work and creating an alliance between China and Canada.
‘Of course, American Indians generally view what comes out of politicians mouths with a different filter system because we have been lied to for centuries.
‘For that reason, American Indians usually take a wait and see attitude when dealing with non-Indians, and especially politicians and political action committees, a.k.a. PACs, when it comes to policy matters. This time we should not take a wait and see attitude. We know we are being lied to by the other side.’
—by Levi Rickert
