Did McAuliffe Blame Bush for His Father’s Death?

Buzzfeed finds a C-SPAN interview with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe in which he appears to blame George W. Bush for his father’s
death.

Said McAuliffe: “There are many reasons why people thought Jack had died. He was
83 years old. And I said the main reason is that he could not go into a
new year knowing that a Republican was actually moving into the White
House. I just don’t think he could’ve handled that. He had eight great
years. President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were so
nice to my mother and father, they’d come down all the time. So he had a
great eight years when President Clinton and Vice President Gore were
in office, and he just wasn’t going into a new year with a Democrat not
being in the White House Steve, he just couldn’t handle it.”