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Stuff happens.
That was how Jeb Bush on Friday shrugged-off the slaughter of nine people at an Oregon community college by a gun-toting maniac.
Bush made the flippant stuff happens remark during a campaign stop in Greenville, S.C., where he argued against more gun control in the wake of the latest massacre, Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker magazine first reported.
Later, when Lizza asked Bush if he meant to say what he said, the Republican presidential candidate said he stood by his words
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/jeb-bush-oregon-college-shooting-stuff-article-1.2383572
malaise
(268,885 posts)November 1963
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Chemisse
(30,807 posts)He's put his foot in his mouth repeatedly since the campaign began, but this was a misstep only in that he included the words 'stuff happens' somewhere in a long comment about the tragedy, naively thinking his quote wouldn't be parsed for the most interesting sound bite.
applegrove
(118,600 posts)Ilsa
(61,692 posts)Maybe they'd feel differently about it. Then again, with Babs as a model, maybe their families aren't ghat important to them.
Gloria
(17,663 posts)These pro-lifers show their respect so eloquently...
Screw em
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Notice how they gloss over the whole slaughter thing.
msongs
(67,394 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)iOS, as president I won't give a damn if you or any of your loved ones gets shot in a mass shooting because stuff happens.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)This is a stupider version of Barbara.
Gothmog
(145,086 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,542 posts)Doesn't mean we have to like it.
Privileged piece of shit.
Go away.