Ted Cruz Details Dad’s Torture in New Book

Daily Beast ^ | 06.26.15 | Tim Mak

[Isara]

A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America is out June 30.

[KC_Lion]

Ping!

THIS right here, he understands Communism.

Ted is a true bulwark against this crap!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Why do I get the feeling that all of the RINO Republicans who support John McCain because he was tortured are not going to extend the same to Cruz?

[Michael.SF.]

You may want to look at it again:

" Cruz’s father, Rafael, had been jailed as a Cuban revolutionary in the days of Fulgencio Batista

I also thought at first it would have been Castro's goon's. I am surprised that Cruz's father was fighting on the anti-Batista side.

[TexasGator]

“I also thought at first it would have been Castro’s goon’s. I am surprised that Cruz’s father was fighting on the anti-Batista side. “

He thought originally that it was the right thing to do but after seeing it for what it was, turned anti-Castro.

[ansel12]

But it is in his father’s story that Cruz finds common ground with Barack Obama, a president he has so frequently denounced. The senator writes in great detail about his father’s decision to flee Cuba for Texas, landing with almost nothing and working as a dishwasher at an Austin diner. Rafael learned English in part by watching movies over and over again, learning words from context and intonation. “America, quite simply, saved my father. America gave him a chance…The freedom of America was the dream that allowed him to endure the brutality of Cuba. It was and is a beacon of hope for all those who, like him, have endured oppression,” Cruz writes. It is on the uniqueness of the American safe haven that Cruz relates his family’s experience to that of the Democratic president’s.

I don't get it, what is the connection to Obama?

[ansel12]

THIS right here, he understands Communism. Ted is a true bulwark against this crap!

Yep, the Cruz family does know the evils of communism.

[Georgia Girl 2]

This happened to many Cubans. I have friends who’s parents thought Castro was going to liberate them all from Batista and have Democracy. So they helped the rebels. When Castro took over it soon became clear he had lied to everybody.

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[snowtigger]

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[Kartographer]

Why would you think that someone must follow a Goon to be against another Goon?

[Kartographer]

Rafael Cruz: Reclaiming America

http://media.perpetuatech.com/watch?v=MDFERjZDOTcyMw#

[Conservative4Ever]

You have stated the truth.

[Argus]

Tragically, most of history has been a choice between the greater and the lesser goon.

[DickBrannigan]

He voted against us. To hell with him.

[Michael.SF.]

I made no comment as to whose side he was on, only that he was anti-Batista. He may very well have been fighting against Batista and also not be on the side of Castro. I am sure there were many factions struggling against Batista.

[katana]

I’ve known some older Cuban Americans whose experience was similar. Batista was an archetypal immensely corrupt military dictator and before taking power Castro portrayed himself as a democrat. Once in power his true intentions became obvious and those he had deluded only then realized that they’d replaced one devil with another even worse.

[erod]

Have this on reserve through Audible.

[Michael.SF.]

Good points! Thank you

[Kartographer]

That was certainly the case between Batista and Castro.