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But did he? Look. I could join MENSA tomorrow and probably would if it weren't such a nerd prom. But I think Ted Cruz is a LOT smarter than I am, especially when it comes to the Constitution. He was the most brilliant student that Alan Dershowitz and some other professors at Harvard Law School (arguably the best law school on Earth) had ever seen! And that was when he was 20-something. He's had another 25 years of learning and experience since then! He clerked for a US Appellate Judge AND the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court! He's won DOZENS of cases at the Supreme Court, many of them major ones that you've heard of. He's the reason Al Gore is a has-been blowhard and not a former president. And on and on.

[RitaOK]

I know all that, of Ted’s credentials. He is special. He will make the cut is my bet also. But, his argument *for* this authority and the subsequent agreement that will come from it is simply untimely, imho, while we are still under this particular and foreign president.

Why does this trade fangle have to occur a year and a half early? It is too much for my faint heart. Obama is as trust worthy as Putin. (I take that back. As an insult to Putin.)

Fear causes a candidate a multitude of problems.

Also, if Obama and Congress can sit by and see a quarter of a million Christians and others beheaded, reportedly children crucified, and banished entirely from Iraq, what is the almighty rush for this trade thingy when Obama is on the ropes, but desperate to obtain?

I think we are trying to work through this, but Cruz has some work to do mending minds on the point of the strange TIMING of this thing, coming while Obama is still in office, or else he may need to represent his supporters and try to back away somehow. My 2 cents. .)