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Obama on Cruz: attention-seeker at fault in shutdown; Cruz says the president is “playing games”
The Dallas Morning News ^ | October5, 2013 | By Todd J. Gillman

Posted on 10/05/2013 5:08:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

FULL TITLE: Obama on Sen. Ted Cruz: attention-seeker at fault in government shutdown; Cruz says the president is “playing games”

The man with the biggest megaphone in Washington, President Barack Obama, has called out Texas’ junior senator as an attention-seeking upstart.

“When I came into the Senate, my attitude was I should just keep a pretty low profile in the Senate and just do the work,” he said, contrasting the early days of his own brief Senate career with the nine-month tenure of Sen. Ted Cruz. “I didn’t go around courting the media, and I certainly didn’t go around trying to shut down the government.”

update 4pm: Cruz responds by accusing Obama of “offering partisan jabs and playing games with the shutdown to maximize its painfulness.” (full statement below)

(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abortion; cruz; deathpanels; obamacare; tedcruz; texas; zerocare
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Ted Cruz is the real deal. Thank you Texas!
1 posted on 10/05/2013 5:08:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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attention-seeker at fault in government shutdown

Hey, BO, step away from the mirror!

2 posted on 10/05/2013 5:10:44 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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"When I came into the Senate, my attitude was I should just keep a pretty low profile in the Senate and just do the work,”

Low profile?

Is that what one calls beginning a Presidential Campaign 145 days after arriving at the Senate?

He wasn't in there long enough to find the bathroom.

3 posted on 10/05/2013 5:12:03 PM PDT by digger48
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OMG - zero just kept his head down and did the work. Like voting “present”? Like planning to run for POTUS? What work did this idiot EVER do in any job? As a state seator he got credit for other people’s work - in fact his mentor admitted that.


4 posted on 10/05/2013 5:12:59 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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Bringing unwanted attention to the Constitution.

Not good for a faux Constitutional professor.

5 posted on 10/05/2013 5:13:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ted Cruz is awesome..he pisses off Obama THIS much it means he is winning..Hey Obama, if you want to look up attention seeking whore in the dictionary you will find your pic


6 posted on 10/05/2013 5:14:57 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cruz control!


7 posted on 10/05/2013 5:15:31 PM PDT by Viennacon
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“low profile in the Senate and just do the work”
Bwhahahahahaha! *gasp* hahahahahahahaha!


8 posted on 10/05/2013 5:15:52 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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Does Obozo really want to bring up his Senate record?


9 posted on 10/05/2013 5:15:57 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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“When I came into the Senate, my attitude was I should just keep a pretty low profile in the Senate and just do the work, run for president.”
10 posted on 10/05/2013 5:16:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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The president’s game is to cover his failure with the health care debacle


11 posted on 10/05/2013 5:17:26 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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CRUZ CONTROL I just ordered a bumper sticker saying that


12 posted on 10/05/2013 5:17:44 PM PDT by JoanneSD
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BooHoo. MAKE DC LISTEN.
I’m with Cruz.


13 posted on 10/05/2013 5:18:16 PM PDT by FES0844
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“I didn’t go around courting the media, and I certainly didn’t go around trying to shut down the government.”

You Obama didn’t have you Obama to deal with. There was someone qualified to be our President in the WH at that time.


14 posted on 10/05/2013 5:18:54 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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This IS from the Saturday Night Live sketch, right?

I hope so, because it just may be the funniest thing I have seen in a while.

15 posted on 10/05/2013 5:19:34 PM PDT by Tupelo (Snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory, an old Republican Tradition.)
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Obama calling Cruz "attention-seeker?

If that's not the pot calling the...ur...kettle...uh...

Nevermind

16 posted on 10/05/2013 5:20:03 PM PDT by stormhill (Guns Save Lives!)
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The Clown wets his bed. He’s dysfunctional.


17 posted on 10/05/2013 5:21:48 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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Obama might be playing a game, but he doesn’t have a full deck.


18 posted on 10/05/2013 5:22:04 PM PDT by abclily
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Ted Cruz BUMP!

0bama = Christmas goose.


19 posted on 10/05/2013 5:23:44 PM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Realize this is from the Dallas newspaper but read some of the comments anyway. Are there any Conservatives left up there or did they all move to Fort Worth? Dallas sounds as bad as Houston.


20 posted on 10/05/2013 5:23:59 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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