Ted Cruz killed it today taking Obama to task for his decision to arm the Syrian “rebels”
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Aag7XL2e1Ww[/youtube]
He makes two observations to Obama:
“Number one, don’t arm al Qaida. Don’t arm those who hate us. Don’t arm those who want to kill us. Number two, when it comes to matters of vital national security, the President of the United States needs to come to the American people. It is not acceptable for the president to simply send out staffers to pass on his decisions. He needs to come before Congress and the American people and explain those decisions.”
By arming the “rebels” most assuredly he will be arming al-Qaeda. 7 of the 9 “rebel” groups are radical Islamists:
And one of those supposed non-radical groups is dedicated to fighting only in the Kurdish areas.
So he somehow believes these weapons aren’t going to get in the hands of al-Qaeda?
Give me a friggin break.
What should our priority be?
The President would be better off focusing clearly on the one thing that is in our national security interests: securing Syria’s large stockpile of chemical weapons…We know Assad has used these weapons, and there is good reason to suspect the al Qaida-affiliated rebels would use them as well if they could get their hands on them. This poses an intolerable threat not only to our friends in the region, but also to the United States. We need to be developing a clear, practical plan to go in, locate the weapons, secure or destroy them, and then get out. The United States should be firmly in the lead to make sure the job is done right.
Now that’s talking like the President of the United States rather than a “citizen of the world” as Obama said yesterday.
We didn’t elect him to be a damn “citizen of the world”! We elected him to be our Commander in Chief, the President of this country. Instead he is intervening in wars half-heartedly, leaving a huge power vacuum behind in each country which is promptly filled by radical Islamists.
It’s a disgrace.
Ted Cruz has some simple questions:
- Why aiding the Syrian rebels is now worth our intervention when it wasn’t two years ago.
- How he has established which rebels are the appropriate recipients of this support and how this very limited support will make a material difference in Syria.
- How his team is proactively planning to keep Syria’s chemical weapons out of the hands of either Hezbollah or al Qaida.
Will he answer? Can he?
I doubt it.
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You were there, I was here but we both remember something RW might not have realized: the ”press” back then was 22 minutes PER DAY of network news.
Usually it was CBS.
ABC and NBC were the others.
BUT there was no way to tape one and watch it later, either!
So, you picked one.
There were some newspapers but you only saw your local ones UNLESS you went to a library or newspaper dealer.
So, you didn’t get much news at all about Cuba or Castro.
Locally we had an influx of Cubans into Huntington Park, CA and the local news was all over who great their food was.
But their politics?
Nope.
@Nan G: #52
I never paid much attention to what was being reported until I started listening to talk radio as I drove all over the country. They alerted me to the liberalism in the network news. Now that I am retired, I have the time to find out what is going on around the world that the propaganda media doesn’t want me to know about.
In my opinion, most of the major news media have been infiltrated, with the purpose of turning the USA into a socialist or Muslim country. Their continuing drop in readers and listeners, but their not changing how and what they report on, is one proof of this. Any company who keeps loosing customers tries to change the way they do things to win customers back. With the propaganda media, it is business as usual. This is the main reason Air America failed. All it was was to hate republicans and George Bush.
@MataHarley: They’d rather listen to the shock jocks. Their loss.
If folks like you and Word continue,hope for sanity remains.
Semper Fi—-spending the day with The Wounded Warriors on a boat out of Dana Point Harbor.
The time for us to have done anything positive (if it was possible to begin with) in Syria has passed. The boat was missed and now all the fanatics have strengthened their hands. We may as well just let them kill each other now, hope it doesn’t spread to Iraq and destabilize that country, and deal with whoever is left standing in Syria.
@Richard Wheeler:
So why are all the libs jumping on Cruz for leaving the communism in Cuba?
Well we now know that all that talk of Stinger-type missiles being lost to the Tangos in Libya was just a lot of hot air.
It’s been two years now and no attacks on civilian airliners.
Glad to know it was just talk!
@MataHarley:
Of course the fact that the person was ineligible to run for president makes him a president usurper and not a president, therefore subject to arrest and trial by a criminal court.
A non-president can’t be removed by impeachment as that is reserved for an actual president.
You seem to be equating a ‘citizen by birth’ as a ‘natural born citizen’. I see no precedent for that.
@Redteam: Again you miss—-Cruz Sr. left Batista run Cuba in 1957. Castro came into power in 1959. Capiche?. Libs problem is with Ted Cruz’s erroneous timeline.
BTW Marco Rubio has similar “problem.”
@MataHarley:
The position that only another presidential candidate has ‘standing’ is beyond absurd. That is equivalent to a person being arrested for robbing a bank can only be charged or challenged by another bank robber.
Standing, in a legal sense, means that to be eligible to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a statute on its own; there must be a plaintiff who has actually been harmed by the statute. If any person has to pay more taxes because of a law signed by an ineligible person, then that person has been harmed and therefore has standing. That includes almost every citizen in the US.
@Richard Wheeler:
RW, you obviously have lost track of the discussion. Castro was/is a communist. Cruz saw the handwriting on the wall and fled communism. Libs see that as a bad thing because they would like to see citizens being subjected to socialism/communism.
Rubio’s parents left long before there was much likelihood of Castro taking over.
@Richard Wheeler:
Since you use Semper Fi in your comments, it makes me curious. Almost all Marines I know are Patriotic and Love America. What caused you to go astray?
@Redteam: Cruz fought with Communists against Batista who imprisoned him. He left in 57 to attend U.T. Why, is simply conjecture on ANYONE’S part.
Problem for Marco is he originally said his parents left to escape Communism.
@Redteam: Haven’t you already made enough stupid comments for one day.
Boat trip was great. Wounded Marines and their families. Semper Fi
I presume Mr. Cruz fully supports the right of every Muslim in America to buy AK-47s, AR-15s, and high-capacity magazines on the spot, without the inconvenience of intrusive universal background checks.
@Richard Wheeler:
Tell us again why that is a problem.
@Richard Wheeler:
When you don’t have a good answer for a question, the tactic is to try to draw attention away. You’re not good at deception.
@Greg:
I would hope that he would support the rights of all citizens to own any legal weapon they choose. And of course, no citizen should have to be subjected to a background check. Who can legally own a weapon should remain as it is, with felons, etc, excluded.
@Redteam: You’re kidding. Or not too bright. He said his parents left Cuba to escape Communism, Turns out they left in 1951. Fill in the blanks.
@Richard Wheeler:
What does ‘brightness’ have to do with not caring about why someone said their parents moved?
I don’t care if he said they left because the weather was too warm, or that the Gulf was getting polluted? Maybe they left because they had a large tax bill due and didn’t want to pay it. Tell me what difference it makes. If you want to claim it’s because he lied that you care, I would dispute that because you idolize Obama and he is a certified liar and that doesn’t seem to bother you. Maybe you need to turn your dimmer switch up a little.
Just as a novelty, provide us with proof that they came to the US in 1951, I think you’re a little off there.
I’m not a Rubio admirer anyhow, I hope he loses his Senate seat so maybe we can get someone that doesn’t want to make all the illegals in the US legal.
@Redteam: Bottom line. They left Cuba before Castro’s revolution began.
You don’t like Rubio. I think he’ll be Prez.
I agree his misstatement about his parents departure is irrelevant in the big picture.
BTW I think you’ll find both Cruz znd Rubio eligible for a POTUS run.
Finally Expect blowback when you question any Marine Corps Officer’s patriotism.
When did you serve?
@Richard Wheeler:
Why is that the bottom line? What difference does it make? You saying he’s a liar? You love liars. So you don’t know when they left.
And I think if you keep stuffing yourself with BS you’ll have to make a bathroom visit. Is that relevant?
I didn’t question any Marine Corps Officer’s patriotism, you’ve displayed your LACK of it. You’re not Col. Jessup are you?
BEFORE you did.
according to Fox Exit Polls 2012 vets split evenly for Obama/Romney. But the older WW II and Vietnam vets went to Romney. The younger ones went to Obama. Apparently some now think that makes these new vets haters of the USA.
As far as Syria: there are 2 sides here one side is being supported by Iran. The other by the Sunni Arabs. If we do not assist the rebels they will probably lose and the Iran backed side will win. If that is what you want then just spit it out and say so.
Americans are fed up with conservatives claiming to speak for our vets. They don’t .
@john: How any American vet can be supportive of a President that hates the country and the military services seems to be evident,, they share his values. Most patriotic people do not hate the country and it’s military. The Dims seems to fit the ‘hate America’ crowd much more so than the Veterans do.
As far as Syria, let them (both sides) stew in their own excrement. While the rebels are the Taliban, that have openly been warring against America seems to be the worse side, I see no benefit from the government side prevailing either. Just being supported by Iran is not a sure thing. The fate of Iran then might govern the fate of Syria. Right now, we have a muslim in the white house that seems to be supportive of Iran. Supporting either side is not a winning situation for America.
Have these fools, never heard the “Fable” of the FROG and the Scorpion???? Obviously not….
@Redteam:” Muslim in the White House” With that statement your credibility is lost.
You gotta be a crotchety old man to have served before me.lol How bout some details.
@Richard Wheeler:
There is proof all over the internet that Obama is a Muslim, why does that cause a loss of credibility? Believing the truth is a problem with you?
Details of what? Put up your info that you are asking of me.
Richard…
Obama “says” he’s not a Muslim.
Fine, he also said, He’d CUT the DEBT. CUT the Deficit. Be HONEST, and TRANSPARENT!!!
That there would be no more “Business as usual in DC…..
No “backroom deals”……… ALL bills would be posted for days, before voting on so WE COULD READ EM!!
ALL Congressional stuff etc would be on C-SPAN so we’d see how these bills came together.. NO SECRECY!
There would be NO LOBBYISTS in his administration… Promieses etc etc ad nauseum….
and ALL his promises, SAVE the ONE TO GAYS… have turned into LIES……
So when Obama, the ISLAMIC APPEASER, the former ISLAMIC SCHOOL student…. the one telling how the sound of the Islamic calling to prayer is the “sweetest sound” he’s ever heard etc… the guy who uttered “my Islamic faith” in an Interview George Stephanopoulos etc… The one who said he’d SIDE WITH ISLAM if we went against them…. the time and time again proven Liar says “I’m not Islamic”….
EXCUSE US if we act just a tad SKEPTICAL!!!!!! Obama as SELF EARNED that!!!
By the way, who has all but banned the use of the term “JIHAD” in the WH… or who has to all but CHOKE, to say the words “Islamic terrorist? Hmmmmm
He may well NOT BE a Practicing Islamic.. but, I’ll stand by my thoughts, that there is ENOUGH ISLAMIC HISTORY in his PERSONAL LIFE.. to CLOUD/EFFECT his acting/Opinion on the subject.
“Rachel Rose Hartman, a White House reporter for Yahoo! News, couldn’t possibly have missed the “birther” story. It was unavoidable, after all, for an unhealthy chunk of the president’s first term.
Yet: In her story yesterday on Obama’s Africa trip, Hartman managed to say that “he won’t be stopping in the country of his birth.” From the context of the story, it’s clear she was referring to Kenya.”
quoted from Yahoo News
@Redteam: Obviously you’re the one who has a problem with the truth. Even Conservative FA’ers don’t believe Obama is a Muslim.*except Hankster–how are you?
Active Duty USMC 1966-69– Nov.67-Nov.68 RVN. Aye has copy of my DD-214.
How bout you?
Semper Fi Richard Wheeler Capt. USMCR
@Redteam: Here, Michelle Obama talks several times of here KENYAN HUSBAND….. funny thing of note.. all the VIDEOS.. have been SCRUBBED from the Internet!!
STORY with the Quotes is still up tho.
Video here.. 2 minutes in she says it AGAIN….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3-MGHFXkc
Here.. 45 seconds in…
@Richard Wheeler: Active Duty USN 1957-1961 USNR 1961-63. I also have copy of my DD-214
@Richard Wheeler: How was it that Barry went to Muslim schools without being a muslim? Why did he attend religious services at Mosques? Is that normal for non-muslims?
Why do you believe he is not a muslim when he himself has said he is. Do you just attribute that to him being a liar?
@Richard Wheeler: Just out of curiosity, how many years in the USMCR?
@Redteam, #74:
It’s simple: A majority of vets don’t share the view that he “hates the country.” That’s actually a minority opinion, even among the people who didn’t vote for him. If you get all of your information from a narrow selection of the media that expresses a narrow range of opinion, you’re not going to have a very good sense of the mainstream views.
I’m a Vietnam vet and I voted for Obama twice. Both of the Vietnam buddies that I’m still in regular contact with have also voted for Obama twice. All three of us follow veterans’ issues more closely than the average voter does.
@Greg: You’re a rare breed, most vets recognize that Dimocrats don’t support the military. Some never learn. Did you finish elementary school?
@john: #73
A lot of us look at Syria like Iraq. Whoever wins, it is still going to be a Muslim country, and they are going to want the Great Satin out of their country. Either way, we will loose.
@Redteam, #86:
A bit more than that, thanks to a large, publicly funded university system and the G.I. Bill.
Harry W. Colmery, a republican, jotted down his ideas for the G.I. bill on a Washington DC restaurant napkin midway through the Second World War.
Decades later, a different republican would sketch the Laffer Curve on another napkin for Dick Cheney’s edification, paving the way for an irresponsible new wave of unfunded tax cuts and a budgetary nightmare.
Obviously republicans—once a source of very good ideas that found wide, bipartisan support—have changed, and can no longer be trusted with stray scraps of paper and ballpoint pens.
@Richard Wheeler: #76
Several of us have already given you links to obama saying he was a Muslim, and different printed material saying he was from Kenya while he was in college, and he never corrected them, and a propaganda media reporter interviewing obama, and obama saying something about his Muslim faith, and the reporter saying, “You mean your Christian faith,” and Brian Williams actually bowing to obama.
@Redteam: #79
I have a feeling she won’t be with them long. Will Fox News hire her?
@Greg:
And every single VN Vet at my VFW voted against him and they can’t stand him. Ditto for the Iraq/Afghanistan Vets including those who are still in. I already posted one poll showing only 26% or so of those serving and who have previously served, supporting the job he is doing as CiC as well as links to what he did with Tricare, Tuition Assistance, and the GI Bill.
@Richard Wheeler: Batista was a DICTATOR… same same in the end….
@Greg: “” I’m a Vietnam vet and I voted for Obama twice.””
Well, that establishes your lack of “intelligence” and “Common sense”… …. any more things we think/know of you, you wish VALIDATE today???
@Greg: “unfunded tax cuts”
LOL!!!!! UNFUNDED tax cut????? How does one FUND, TAKING LESS from a person??? You use the word FUND.. as tho having to PAY, for all the CRAP DC now DOES.. is somehow “Constitutionally MANDATED”…. which the MAJORITY of what DC is doing NOW.. TODAY…. is NOT!!!! DOH!!
@Smorgasbord: Smorg, yes, they’re beating a dead horse. They know Obama is, and claims to be, a Muslim. Yet, every time someone says he is a Muslim, they feign surprise and deny it and ask for proof. Obama himself is the proof. He’s demonstrated it in every way possible and anyone that hasn’t gotten it by now, never will. I suspect it is just the old, I know nothing, I see nothing strategy.
@Hankster58: Agreed Batista/Castro equally bad actors—However, sons should desist from claims that parents original departures were anti-Communist motivated. Timing just doesn’t bear that out.
Agree this is no big deal. Bigger ? is whether Repub. birthers er “constitutionalists” will try to block Rubio, Cruz POTUS aspirations.
Redteam#95 The horse’s demise is due to ceaseless beatings by far right birthers er “constitutionalists” afflicted with QDS.
@Richard Wheeler: and how many years were you in the USMCR?
According to what I’ve read, Rubio was not born when his parents left Cuba. After he was born, I’m sure he was led to believe they left because of the perpetual fighting between the two evil forces there. They may have said, or he may have assumed, that they left because the communists took over. He has said that when he was challenged on that some time ago, he checked and found that they had in fact left in 1956 (not 1951 as you claim), but that he had always ‘been told it was because the communists took over’. Why are you making a big deal out of someone’s recollections of what they were told when they were a child? Why don’t you spend your time doing something useful, like finding out why Obama received aid as a foreign student when he attended Occidental?
@Richard Wheeler:
I don’t personally know any birthers, (whatever that is) but as for constitutionalists, I won’t try to block anyone. If the country doesn’t care enough about the constitution that they will elect an Indonesian Muslim to the office, one person stating that Rubio is not a ‘natural born citizen’ is not going to stop a steamroller. Rubio has many more problems than just not being an NBC. He wants to give amnesty to the illegals and he’s a Soro’s puppet.
@Redteam: I’ve said I agree it’s no big deal–see my #96.
3 years active–3 reserve. Thanks for your service.
@Redteam:
Yes there is:
And the Supreme Court has weighed in on this in Lynch vs Clarke:
And that’s from Redstate btw, not really a hotbed of liberalism.
@Aqua: Well, since we have a foreign born of foreign parent, then there is not much doubt he’s not eligible, is there? Also the fact that he was also an Indonesian citizen does not exactly inspire patriotism.
The constitution is clear that ‘natural born’ is different from citizen and there is a reason for it.
Your opinion, as is mine, is just opinion. The supreme court will not take your or my opinion into consideration, if a case ever gets there.