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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz denies his dad is a birther while admitting his father said Obama should go ‘back to Kenya’
Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate and Texas senator, says his father doesnt believe in birther conspiracies about President Barack Obama despite comments he made on camera.
His father, conservative pastor Rafael Cruz, has frequently made headlines for controversial comments about the president, LGBT rights, the nations founding, Common Core education standards, and other topics. But Ted Cruz denies his father is a liability in his quest for the White House.
Ill tell you there has been an effort in the media and among some Democrats to try to paint a scary picture of my father, Cruz told Fox News Radio host Alan Colmes on Thursday. My father is an extraordinary man. He is a pastor, he is the most loving person Ive ever known and listen, his personal narrative poses a real threat to many on the left because many on the left like to portray big government as the only solution for those who are struggling who want to achieve the American dream.
And the caricature they painted of him is simply false and Ill give you an example, he continued. Im not familiar with what you just mentioned there but Ill tell you one of the most off-cited examples that gets repeated in the fever swamps of the Internet is that my dad has said President Obama should go back to Kenya.
Mother Jones reported in 2013 that Rafael Cruz had called Obama an outright Marxist who seeks to destroy all concept of God, and told the president to go back to Kenya in videos from Tea Party events. But Ted insists his fathers words were taken out of context.
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flobee1
(870 posts)That quote alone, explains a lot......
Gothmog
(145,839 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)and is now running for president.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)The horrors!
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)and was a Fidelista, apparently, in his younger days.
Rex
(65,616 posts)And they get away with it, usually.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)says anything that will keep the billionaires supporting him and daddy preaches to the 10%ters. If there were no money in it they would find another message that someone would hand money over to them for.