Posted on 04/29/2016 8:01:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Someone showed up at a Ted Cruz event in Elkhart, Indiana today with a copy of the Communist Manifesto. According to a reporter for the Texas Tribune, the kid, who looked like he could be a college student, asked Cruz to sign his “economic textbook.”
A young man asks Ted Cruz to sign his "economic textbook."
"That… would be the Communist Manifesto," Cruz says, realizing the prank.
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) April 28, 2016
Video of the encounter published by WSBT22 shows Cruz paused and said, “You know what, I’ll sign it as well.” The college kid replied, “Ah, you have a good sense of humor.” Here is the note Cruz added to the book:
A young man asked @SenTedCruz to sign a copy of the Communist Manifesto as a joke. Here's what Cruz wrote. pic.twitter.com/8VW5H2XHOb
— Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) April 28, 2016
After handing the book back, Cruz turned to the press, “There you go and for the record the note I wrote on the Communist Manifesto is ‘Millions have suffered because of this.’ Turning back to the student he added, “And I note this as the son of a Cuban immigrant whose family has seen first hand just exactly what Communism has rendered. Cruz then shook the young man’s hand and thanked him for coming out to the rally.
Kudos to Cruz for not falling for the prank and handling it well. You can be sure that if he hadn’t noticed what this was and signed it with something anodyne like ‘Thanks for your support!’ the left would have been giddy over it.
Trump could not possibly be as smart as you are. /s/
Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but yours suck so I'll choose to ignore it.
I understand the need for some posters to reflexively post something bad about Cruz, but surely, this is a very far reach, embarrassing even.
I happen to agree. It is embarrassing, even shocking that Cruz took a pass on revealing Communism for what it ALWAYS results in.
>But why knock Ted Cruz and call him a cheater when all he’s doing is familiarizing himself with the primary process and working to garner the necessary delegates to win?
CO wasn’t cheating? A state where Trump is polling at 44% and Cruz got all the delegates? Heck even the GOP there is claiming their “process was flawed” and needs a do over. Cruz cheats all day long.
Good one.
Except, there is but one thing wrong with your analysis. That Cruz kept his fathers support for Castro a secret. In his book he explained how his father came to America, and also what he did while he was here. He also was saying the same thing in speeches and interviews. So if the cuban community knew nothing about his fathers support of Castro before he took power, that says something about them or the media doesn’t it.
Well done. That’s the Cruz I used to like.
Trump would have signed it not knowing what it was.
Bernie would have gladly signed knowing what it was.
I'm sure he knows what it is, but has probably never read it.
Same thing
That, on a pro-Cruz thread? Was that intentionally ironic or only stupid?
Been here done that. Show up sooner next time
Another Candidate: You are amazing, this book is amazing.
“Hillary would have written “My favorite textbook”.”
Hillary would have written “My favorite textbook which I keep in my purse along with an 8-track audio, cassette copy, CD, DVD and hard-copy of it and refer to it constantly”.
Making believe something doesn't exist is the height of stupidity. Rigorous study gives insight. We knew it was a crock and were prepared to argue down profs. in college, which we did.
thanks for the compliment, typical trumpie
Thanks for the answer. It was stupid.
I’m for Trump, but Cruz made the right move here. Very cleverly handled on his part. For this Cruz gets one Brownie point.
Not even remotely clever. But that’s par for the course these days, even for some old timers I guess.
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