Pigs fly, Ted Cruz full of Obama praise

[FarCenter]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), praised President Barack Obama on Wednesday for bringing the Syria strike to Congress, saying that the move gave the chance for the voices of Americans to be heard.

“I want to commend President Obama for two different things. Number one, I want to commend President Obama for listening to the bipartisan calls to submit to the constitutional authority of Congress. That was significant, it was the right thing to do and I’m glad he did so,” Cruz said in a detailed foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 4th Annual Jesse Helms Lecture Series
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“And secondly, once the issue came to Congress, that gave the American people a chance to speak up,” he added, detailing how his constituents had almost total unanimity against intervention in Syria.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/ted-cruz-praises-barack-obama-96665.html

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1. He's trying to run for president. These kind of remarks will become quite common.

[CakeGrrl]

2. Left-handed praise at best, and undoubtedly self-serving

"submit to the constitutional authority"

That's some dogwhistle there. And it's not correct. He could have acted under the Presidential authority granted his predecessors.