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Binkie The Clown

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Fri Sep 25, 2015, 12:41 PM Sep 2015

Jeb Bush won't give African Americans "Free Stuff". [View all]

[font size=5]Jeb Bush Says Unlike Others, He Won’t Give African Americans ‘Free Stuff’[/font]
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/25/3705520/jeb-bush-says-hell-win-the-african-american-vote-with-hope-not-free-stuff/
Think Progress]

Speaking to a crowd of mostly white Republicans in South Carolina this week, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush mused on his strategy to win over African American voters.
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The remark echoes a comment made by Mitt Romney four years ago, when he was asked at an NAACP event about his stance on the Affordable Care Act. “If they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy — more free stuff,” Romney said. He soon followed up with the infamous speech to private donors saying Democrat voters “believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.” Romney went on to lose the election, earning just 6 percent of African American votes.


Good ol' Jebby really knows how to appeal to minorities, doesn't he.
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