Ted Cruz to launch presidential bid

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@ LASILENCIA:

Check this out. Some excerpts from a blog post. Link at bottom.

Ted Cruz wants the US border zipped up and a concrete fence erected, and he does not support any road to citizenship for those who have snuck in.

“I am the son of an immigrant who came 58 years ago from Cuba legally,” Cruz says, “And I think Americans are agreed that amnesty is wrong.”

Cruz’ father was a Cuban expatriate, and his mother was a US citizen. Cruz offers his father as an example of the right way to be an immigrant. Before coming to America, Cruz said, his father was “imprisoned and tortured in Cuba.” What Cruz glosses over is that his father, Rafael, actually fought alongside Fidel Castro’s communist forces. Rafael was captured and jailed and beaten by the regime of Fulgencio Batista, the US-backed dictator.

Oops. That wasn’t supposed to come out.

Somehow, despite the fact that Rafel (Ted Cruz’ father) was a rebel fighting alongside communists, Rafael was released from Batista prison sometime around 1957 and accepted to the University of Texas. Rafael then made it to America on a student visa when a family friend bribed a Cuban crony to stamp his exit visa. How a Cuban rebel could get a visa into the United States in the 1950s without lying about aiding and abetting Castro is beyond me. Lying on a visa application is grounds for deportation. I’d love to see the original document, if Cruz is seriously running for president.

A few years back, when the birther complaints against Obama was in full bloom, Pastor Rafael Cruz (Ted Cruz’ father) told a Texas audience that he’d “like to send Obama back to Kenya.”

In the USA, Rafael married an American woman named Eleanor, and they moved to Canada to chase their American dream in the Alberta oil fields. Rafael got Canadian citizenship, got drunk a lot, got his wife pregnant, and got Jesus.

Source:

http://linkis.com/news.vice.com/articl/hGGBU

@ LASILENCIA:

Senators ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have both lied about their parents. Rubio has claimed on three occasions since 2006, and on his official Senate website, that his parents came to the U.S. after Castro’s forces overthrew Batista in January 1959. That is, they supposedly “fled from Castro.”

In reality, Rubio’s parents arrived in the USA in May 1956. They were fleeing Batista — just as Ted Cruz’ father did.

Cruz became a US Senator in 2013. Seven years before that, in January 2006, Cruz boasted to the Austin American-Statesman that his father had been, “A guerilla, throwing Molotov cocktails and blowing up buildings.” (Thus, Cruz’ father was a TERRORIST against a US-allied government.)

Ted Cruz said his father began fighting against Batista’s regime in 1953 at age 14. At age 17 his father was imprisoned and tortured by Batista’s government. The next year, 1957, Rafael Cruz legally went to Texas on a student visa issued by the Batista regime.

After Ted Cruz became a Senator, he reversed himself, and started to falsely claim that his father had fled Castro, not Batista. Cruz did this to appeal to white conservatives, and to cover his ass if anyone discovered that his father had entered the USA on fraudulent terms. “Oh, he fled Castro? It’s all right then.”

Today Ted Cruz’ father (Rafael Bienvenido Cruz) is 76, and lives in Carrollton TX, a suburb of the Dallas / Forth Worth area.

In 2013, Rafael told NPR that, “A lawyer friend of my father bribed a Batista official to stamp my passport with an exit permit.”

Rafel said he fought during the Cuban Revolution against US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and that he was captured by Batista’s forces. He claims that he went through all legal channels while applying for a student visa from the U.S. government to attend the University of Texas. But if Rafael bribed officials of the US-backed Batista, how do we know he didn’t bribe officials of the US government?

Ted Cruz fans claim that Rafael did not bribe US officials to get in to the USA, but bribed Batista officials to get out of Cuba. As though this makes everything okay.

And there is still the problem of explaining how Rafael went from a student visa to a U.S. citizen. Ted Cruz once said his father asked for and received political asylum, because of the evil Castro. But this didn’t square with Rafael’s having fought with Castro’s forces.

What I suspect happened is that Rafael Cruz went from Cuba to Texas, overstayed his student visa, and became an illegal alien. From Texas he went north to work in the oil fields of Alberta Canada, still an illegal alien (although Rafael claims that he became a Canadian citizen, through a process unknown). When Ted Cruz became solicitor general of Texas in 2003, he brought his father Rafael down from Canada, and fixed Rafael’s papers (perhaps illegally) so that Rafael could be a U.S. citizen.

The point of all this is the lying, duplicity, and hypocrisy of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. They hate Latino immigrants, but they love Jews (who also hate Latinos).

Not that it matters. I don’t think that either Cruz or Rubio has a chance to be US President. They’re too goofy. And even though Jews have tremendous power in the USA, it is not sufficient to grovel only before Jews and tea party morons, as do Cruz and Rubio. You must also grovel to Wall Street like Obama did (and still does).

Neither Ted Cruz nor Marco Rubio have any connections on Wall Street.

Liberty University is a fanatically pro-Israel “Christian university” in Lynchburg, Virginia. Its chancellor is Jerry Falwell Jr., son of the infamous televangelist.

Ted Cruz announced his presidential campaign at Liberty University this morning (23 March 2015), because he knew that 10,000 students would be forced to attend. All Liberty students must show up for convocations on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, or they will be punished with four reprimands and a $10 fine.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/23/liberty-u-students-forced-to-attend-ted

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Torture!!

@Isaac: 🙂

LASILENCIA says of Ted Cruz:

“I seriously doubt he speaks the language and he does not identify with the Hispanic community at all.”

Cruz cannot speak Spanish, and he’s proud of it. He thinks it makes him more acceptable to Jews andlos jinchos y blanquitos.

In 2012 when Cruz was running for the US Senate, his opponent on the Republican side, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, challenged Cruz to a debate in Spanish. Dewhurst is 100% Anglo (like me), and apparently he speaks Spanish (like me). Cruz’ democratic opponent was Paul Lindsey Sadler, another 100% Anglo who speaks Spanish.

Cruz refused to debate in Spanish, saying, “Most Texans speak English. Besides, my Spanish is lousy.” Like I said, he is proud of this.

By the way, the map below shows that Texas has the USA’s largest concentration of Latinos – and yet Cruz was elected anyway.

Depressing.
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I was in error when I said Ted Cruz has no Wall Street connections. His wife is a vice president at Goldman Sachs, which is so close to the powers in Washington that it is often referred to as “Government Sachs.” (One web site says his wife is a managing director as GS.)

Sachs was the single biggest contributor to Obama’s campaign. It was the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history before converting to a bank in 2008 and taking $10 billion from the Treasury. Sachs collected another $12 billion from the Fed’s bailout of American International Group Inc., and its decision to pay the insurer’s counter parties in full. Sachs also received guarantees on about $30 billion of debt and the ability to borrow cheaply from the Federal Reserve.

Goldman Sachs people include (among others)

Robert Rubin: former Treasury Secretary (Jew)
Hank Paulson: former Treasury Secretary (Jew)
Stephen Friedman: (Jew) held various posts under W. Bush
Mark Carney: head of the Bank of England
Mario Draghi: head of the European Central Bank
William Dudley: head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Joshua Bolten: current White House chief of staff
Jon Corzine: former governor of New Jersey
Edward Lampert: richest man in Connecticut, worth $3.8 billion
John C. Whitehead: former chairman of the fed reserve Bank of New York

LACK OF TRANSPARENCY

Members of Congress are required to disclose their spouse’s income if it is over $1,000 per year, but Ted Cruz only lists his wife’s income as “Over $1,000.” Cruz is not required to list the exact amount his wife earned. However, given the fact that the Senator is responsible for voting on financial regulation and certainly as president that would be a big part of his duties to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it’s certainly important information.

Cruz’ chief rival from the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton, did list her spouse’s exact income while Hillary was a Senator, because it was paid in honoraria, which through a loophole asks exact amounts paid. Clinton was required to report this potentially embarrassing information, while Cruz has kept secret what his wife is paid.

Cruz’ lack of transparency should be an issue.