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Old 03-25-2015, 07:42 PM
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www.tedcruz.com

you gotta love the owner of this domain
Love it!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 03-26-2015, 09:44 AM
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GOP’s birther hypocrisy exposed

Hypocrisy from the GOP?

Tell me something I don't already know.

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The fact that Cruz’s candidacy is being taken seriously at all speaks to a pervasive hypocrisy among Republican conservatives. After all, as anyone with a heartbeat from 2009 to 2012 no doubt recalls, one of the most popular right-wing claims about President Obama is that he wasn’t actually born in this country. At the height of “birtherism” in 2011, a poll found that more than half of likely 2012 Republican primary voters (51 percent) believed Obama was foreign-born and thus ineligible for the presidency, while more than one-fifth (21 percent) were “not sure” about the matter. As recently as last year, only 34 percent of Republicans could bring themselves to openly admit that their president had indeed been born in Honolulu.

Yet here we are. As the 2016 election looms ahead of us, the first declared Republican candidate—a man whom political handicappers readily acknowledge will depend on Tea Party support, who played a large role in fueling birtherism—makes no bones about the fact that he was born in Calgary, a city in Canada.

And nary a peep of protest can be heard from the right.

Before we continue on to deconstruct the long, inglorious history of right-wing double standards, let us dispel any notion that Cruz’s place of birth disqualifies him for the presidency. Although Section 1 of Article 2 in the Constitution indeed states that only “a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President,” Section 301(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act automatically extends naturalized citizenship to anyone born of an American citizen. Because Cruz’s mother, Eleanor Wilson, was born in Delaware, the senator from Texas without question passes Constitutional muster.

Of course, not even the Obama-era birthers seemed to question that the president’s mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Kansas. Even if their most far-fetched conspiracy theories about Barack Obama entering first this world in his father’s native Kenya were true, they wouldn’t matter any more than if Cruz had been born in his father’s native Cuba.
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Old 03-26-2015, 09:55 AM
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Hypocrisy from humans?

Tell me something I don't already know.
Fixed.
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Old 03-26-2015, 10:11 AM
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Fixed.
As in neutered.
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I think the bigger question is why are these Red states passing religious restoration laws anyway? I really doubt that any one in the United States is being stopped from believeing in God or going to Sunday School or Training Union.

Any one know what I mean by Training Union? If you do you are a Southern Baptists too!
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Old 04-02-2015, 03:47 PM
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"Let Them Eat Cake" translated from French to Teabaggerese

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Methinks the good senator was looking in the mirror when he muttered asshole.
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Hey being a fly-over state is a good t hing...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6996842.html


I guess it will keep everyone's mind off of the fiscal and economic problems there.
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I guess it will keep everyone's mind off of the fiscal and economic problems there.
I dunno if it'll really change what folks already do, but it may give a dangerous sense of entitlement to actually use them in situations where unwarranted by actual circumstances. The particular hazard is being seen as a legitimate defense for unwarranted use of a firearm.

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Old 04-03-2015, 10:34 AM
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Even if one believes in concealed carry, not having any sort of training requirement is asinine.
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