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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 01:47 PM Mar 2015

“Your world is on fire!” Cruz wants terrified little girl to know apocalypse is here because...Obama

He's like an insane televangelist.



Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) took an odd approach to riling up voters in a New Hampshire speech on Sunday — by shouting at a child. According to reports, at an event held by the Strafford County Republican Committee, Cruz attempted to convey the urgency of the American political situation:

“It’s now or never,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve reached the point of no return yet. But we’re close. We are close! And I believe if we go four or eight more years on this same path, we risk losing the greatest country in the history of the world.”

He continued: “And the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind — the whole world is on fire.”

“The world is on fire?!” asked a little girl who was in the arms of her mother.

“The world is on fire,” he replied. “Yes! Your world is on fire!”


After a moment in which is bizarre fearmongering set in, he revised his statement. “But you know what?” he said. “Your mommy is here and everyone is here to make sure that the world you grow up in is even better.”

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/16/your_world_is_on_fire_ted_cruz_terrifies_little_girl_in_nh_stump_speech/

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“Your world is on fire!” Cruz wants terrified little girl to know apocalypse is here because...Obama (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Mar 2015 OP
"He's like an insane televangelist. " Faux pas Mar 2015 #1
Thanks for the correction! Cali_Democrat Mar 2015 #4
Anytime Cali-Democrat! Faux pas Mar 2015 #6
bit of a redundancy there whatthehey Mar 2015 #8
turd cruz at it again. niyad Mar 2015 #2
Cruz uses the vocal and acting ttechniques of the old-time tent evangelists. JDPriestly Mar 2015 #3
Crazy tea party mom says daughter wasn't scared! cali Mar 2015 #5
It interesting how a 3-year-old girl was the only one smart enough to question his hyperbole Cali_Democrat Mar 2015 #11
The world is on fire? That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #7
Does this mean Lefta Dissenter Mar 2015 #9
LOL Cali_Democrat Mar 2015 #12
The right never ties of insane exaggeration treestar Mar 2015 #10

niyad

(113,076 posts)
2. turd cruz at it again.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 01:59 PM
Mar 2015

"your mommy and everyone is here to make your world even better?""

the world is on fire, but it is going to be made even better? so, on fire is good, but will be made even better??? more fire, or fire and flood, or . . .

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
3. Cruz uses the vocal and acting ttechniques of the old-time tent evangelists.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:05 PM
Mar 2015

I can hear it in his voice. Your world is on fire. Hell is a fiery furnace and you are going there. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Follow me. Give me money. Salvation is but a donation away.

Elmer Gantry here comes Ted Cruz.

Present a simple solution to everything, and a lot of people feel very warm and cozy and will do what you say.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
5. Crazy tea party mom says daughter wasn't scared!
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:08 PM
Mar 2015

<snip>

“The world is on fire?” piped up 3-year-old Julie Trant, who was sitting with her mother.

The senator answered in the affirmative: “The world is on fire. Yes! Your world is on fire. But you know what? Your mommy’s here and everyone’s here to make sure that the world you grow up in is better.”

Cruz did not scare her daughter, her mom Michelle said in an interview with WRKO Radio in Boston.

“There was no tears,” Trant said, telling the show she told her daughter that ”Ted Cruz is the one that will put this fire out. And then she then looked at him as a hero.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/ted-cruz-scares-girl-new-hampshire-116100.html#ixzz3UZbe9EpN

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