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Source: Dallas Morning News
By GROMER JEFFERS JR.
Staff Writer
Published: 01 November 2013 10:44 PM
Updated: 01 November 2013 10:44 PM
ADDISON Ted Cruz said Friday that his father was making an ill-advised joke when he told an audience in 2012 that President Barack Obama should be sent back to Kenya and Indonesia.
He made a joke, the junior senator from Texas said after speaking to the Greater Dallas Indo-American Chamber of Commerce in Addison. It was an ill-advised joke. Sadly, those who are trying to play the politics of personal destruction are trying to smear him and use that to attack me.
Rafael Cruz, a Dallas-area pastor, made the remarks while stumping for his sons Senate campaign in September 2012.
We have our work cut out for us. We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago, the elder Cruz told a North Texas tea party gathering. Id like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia.
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Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20131101-cruz-fathers-remark-about-sending-obama-back-to-kenya-was-joke.ece
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Those Democrats. They're so mean! Waaahhh!
malaise
(269,260 posts)A big effin' lie
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)and if it was, then it is highly inappropriate for some one whose child is in such a high profile position and also isn't that fucker Cruz Sr suppose to be a pastor and wasn't one of the tenants of Jesus' ministry, hospitality?
Wounded Bear
(58,766 posts)BTW, so was the Pres when he said all 57 states.
brush
(53,968 posts)Are you taking up for Cruz with your "57 states" remark?
Wounded Bear
(58,766 posts)but the RWers and the M$M got a lot of mileage out of that one.
Now they're using it as an excuse. I entirely doubt he was joking, and I wouldn't support anybody who made a joke like that anyway.
Easy, brush.
brush
(53,968 posts)because it sure read like a swipe at the President.
The 57 states remark was an obvious mistake of a tired candidate. To equate it with a racist joke seems like false equivalency.
I mean why even go there, especially here on DU?
Autumn
(45,120 posts)fuck him and his daddy too.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)It wasn't funny.
Turbineguy
(37,396 posts)Not.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)I am sick and tired of Cruz and other Republicans and Tea Party people saying racist awful, cruel things and then saying, oh it was a joke.
Jokes are by definition - funny. This is not funny. Therefore not a joke.
Wounded Bear
(58,766 posts)I tend to avoid people who tell those kinds of jokes, anyway.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)gotcha, crazy man.
DinahMoeHum
(21,825 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)Cruz is a cull. Natural born cull.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)spanone
(135,921 posts)pastor, my ass.
Wounded Bear
(58,766 posts)Lying to themselves, mostly.
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...We need to send Ted Cruz back to Canada. I'd like to send him back to Cuba...
ha ha, I make zee joke.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)then his pops has a bizarre sense of humor.