'Stuff Happens' Comment Creates Firestorm For Jeb Bush [View all]
Jeb Bush sparked controversy yet again with his word choice on the campaign trail Friday.
When asked about Thursday's shooting at an Oregon community college, the former Florida governor argued for caution against more gun control as an instant reaction, saying that "stuff happens, there's always a crisis" you have to respond to when in leadership.
"I had this challenge as governor," Bush said of the way government should respond after such incidents. "Look, stuff happens, there's always a crisis. And the impulse is always to do something, and it's not necessarily the right thing to do."
Bush wasn't flippant in discussing the tragedy on Thursday, earlier calling it "heartbreaking." But when asked about the appropriate response to these types of incidents, Bush cautioned that "more government" wasn't "necessarily the answer."
The "stuff happens" part of his remark is what many on Twitter and Democratic opponents immediately zeroed in on.
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/02/445379809/stuff-happens-comment-creates-firestorm-for-jeb-bush
‘Stuff Happens’
Bush sees lowest polling numbers to date as he explains verbal slip-up over Oregon shooting
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/bush-polls-at-measly-4-percent/
= new reply since forum marked as read