Every so often I am reminded of why I love this guy.
Immediately after the Brussels terror attack, the presidential candidates made statements that really highlighted the difference between the nutty GOP candidates and ours. While Hillary and Bernie offered empathy and emphatic support for our allies in Europe, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump reminded everyone why it’s important to hate Muslims.
Donald, in addition to railing about his completely infeasible wall, actually said we need to block ALL immigrants and, apparently, all international commerce, until “we figure out what the hell is going on.”
(Who is taking this clown seriously? I really want to know this.)
As stupid as the Donald is, Ted outclassed him in ignorant fear-mongering. First, he pre-emptively tweeted that Americans should ignore any calls from Obama to not give into “Islamophobia”. Then, he got worse. He laid out an unconstitutional plan to “empower” police to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods”.
After he was called out on it on this based on the logistics alone, (and Cruz had to admit he had no idea how many Muslim people there are in this nation), Ted doubled down on that plan.
When Obama was inevitably asked about it, he gave the perfect response. Not only did he smack him down, but highlighted a fact that Mr. Crud hates to talk about: that he is an immigrant himself.
Obama first pointed out that America has seen very few terror attacks despite having a large Muslim population, and that is precisely because Muslims in this country are integrated and patriotic. (This, despite the GOP’s best damn efforts to isolate and scapegoat them).
And then Obama dropped this…
"I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped, for America, the land of the free," President Obama said, invoking Cruz's Cuban heritage in criticizing Cruz's proposal today.
That left a mark. You can see it on the video at 1:17.
Somewhere on the internets is a meme on Ted Cruz: Only in America can a Latino immigrant from Canada decide to become an immigrant-bashing Southern white supremacist.
Cruz is not only trying to run from who he is, but now wants to emulate the dictatorship his family ran from.
It’s a crime that we won't be able to ever see Obama debate a total loser like Ted Cruz. It would have been awesome. Oh well, it’s not like Ted will be relevant by end of the year anyway.