“You all had the opportunity earlier this afternoon to get to know my father. And as you saw, my dad is very soft spoken,” Cruz joked during a speech in Iowa this weekend. “I will confess, I am today violating what has been a cardinal rule, which is never, ever, ever follow my father at the podium.”
Cruz and his father, Rafael, a Texas pastor, both addressed a gathering of Christian conservatives in Ames, Iowa on Saturday, and the elder Cruz — speaking without notes — recounted his imprisonment and torture in Cuba during the 1950′s and subsequent immigration to the United States.
“A young charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change,” Rafael Cruz said in a veiled reference to President Obama’s 2008 campaign themes. “His name was Fidel Castro.”
For nearly 20 minutes, the pastor regaled the audience with a fiery pro-Christian, anti-Obama speech that drew a boisterous standing ovation from the crowd at an annual summit organized by the Family Leader, an Iowa-based conservative group.
“This administration has both their hands in your pocket,” the 74-year-old Cruz said. “They’re going to take everything you have.”
Of course now all the Low Information types and Paid posters will rein in and say all kinds of nasty shit to try and sway the actual conversation...Obamacare is and always was intended to be a failure.
The elder Cruz was a political prisoner under the early days of the Castro regime and later immigrated to the United States.
Some may criticize Rafael Cruz and imply his speeches border on hyperbole, but then why should exaggeration be the sole domain our current president?
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