An interesting reaction from Hillary Clinton to Jeb Bush’s remark regarding Democrats offering “free stuff” to minorities to get them to vote Democratic.
She said talk like that is “deeply insulting, whether it comes from Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney or Donald Trump.”
Is she kidding?
Hillary Rodham Clinton says Jeb Bush’s suggestion that Democrats offer “free stuff” to appeal to minority voters is “deeply insulting.”
Bush told a South Carolina audience last week that Democrats offer division and “free stuff,” or government help, to black voters while his message is about “hope and aspiration.”
Clinton took issue with the comments during a Facebook question-and-answer session on Monday. She said rhetoric like that is “deeply insulting, whether it comes from Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney or Donald Trump.”
“I think people are seeing this for what it is: Republicans lecturing people of color instead of offering real solutions to help people get ahead, including facing up to hard truths about race and justice in America,” Clinton wrote on Facebook.
Bush’s remarks drew comparisons to Romney’s comments following his 2012 loss in the presidential election to President Barack Obama, when the former Massachusetts governor told donors that Obama had offered “gifts” to minority voters.
Bush told Fox News on Sunday that his comments were taken out of context and he was making a point that was counter to what Romney had said at the time.
“I think we need to make our case to African-American voters and all voters that an aspirational message, fixing a few big complex things, will allow people to rise up. That’s what people want. They don’t want free stuff. That was my whole point,” Bush said.
“We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect,” said FDR aide Harry Hopkins. As far as I can tell, they haven’t changed that strategy in the intervening 83 years. The whole point of belonging to the Democratic Party is to partake in the divvying up of the goodies.
Specifically for minorities, Democrats are always coming up with ever more inventive ways to make them more dependent on Democrats being in office. Hillary Clinton can’t deny this, not when her campaign is revving up to scare the daylights out of minorities by claiming Republicans want to cut all those welfare programs — or, “free stuff,” if you’re honest.
All politicians pander to those who can do them the most good. By pretending Democrats aren’t pandering to minorities to get their votes, Hillary Clinton only comes off looking ridiculous.
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