Posted on 01/13/2018 12:26:22 PM PST by conservative98
“I wasn't in the meeting with the president so I don’t know what he did or didn't say. I can tell you my family, Heidi as a child lived in Africa, she lived in Kenya and Nigeria. Her parents were missionaries there. My brother-in-law has been a missionary with his wife and sons in Haiti for many years,” Cruz said.
President Trump denied using the vulgarity.
“The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country,” Trump tweeted Friday morning.
Cruz said the approach he tries to take in Washington is to stay out of the nastiness, attacks and insults and focus on substance and results instead.
Cruz and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner were both asked to respond to the president’s reported statement during a news conference about tax breaks and federal funding for Harvey flood victims.
“The comments were highly unfortunate and shameful. We are an inclusive society. Every person has value. Every community is important and we should be lifting up and not tearing down,” Turner said.
(Excerpt) Read more at click2houston.com ...
There are none in these parts, looking at your and another poster’s offerings.
But I will say, you guys are good for a laugh, so thanks.
Most FReepers don’t read. They just hate Cruz because it was the hip thing to do back during the primaries. Really stupid mouth-breathers.
And let's pretend that the reason these countries are shitholes have absolutely nothing to do with the lazy, illiterate, unskilled people who live there and let's further pretend that making America great again requires bringing them over here.
You guys are absolute, brain-dead, conservative-hating idiots. Useful idiots of the Left, hating on a good conservative representative.
If you had read the actual article, rather than just knee-jerk hating on Ted Cruz, you’d understand that Cruz said the right thing in this situation.
Y’all are really pathetic.
Maybe take a moment to read what Cruz says before damning him for what you wrongly think he said.
Idiots.
What it validated was the thought that the people in those areas were good people, and people should be thinking about helping them rather than accurately addressing the conditions in those regions.
“My family helps. Trump just tosses out labels.”
Thanks Theo.
I watched the video.
It confirmed my suspicions.
Thanks for the help.
Weak spin. Try again.
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
No it wasn’t. So you try again.
His comment that he tries to do something rather than get in the gutter, fed off exactly what he was addressing with his earlier comment.
My peeps go and help, not label the communities.
Seriously?! Are you sure your on the right site? Is Lyn' Ted the definition of conservative? And no one dare criticize him?
I think you've aptly described yourself. Fine. And please respect FR enough to stop there, don't insult us.
Lyin’ Ted was the impetus for my sign up on this forum.
The main reason he will never be president is because he is unelectable.
The secondary reason, which should be the primary, is that he in ineligible.
The third reason, which is not his fault, is because his daddy was hanging out with Lee Harvey Oswald.
The fourth reason is because he is a duplicitous liar and has hidden his true motivations.
The fifth reason is because WE JUST PLAIN DON”T LIKE HIM.
Perfectly stated. Thank you!
Affluent is the correct spelling.
Effluent works too, but changes the meaning entirely, and possibly appropriately.
You’re a phony. Every chance you get to hate on Ted Cruz, you take it. You preach “love” and practice hatred.
He’s not particularly articulate. Plus, he has one of the worst, most grating speaking voices in modern presidential history. What is it lately with politician’s voices? Between Cruz & Hillary, I really don’t know which one is worse. And don’t tell me that is unimportant; most of the men didn’t vote for Hillary because they didn’t want to hear her screeching at them for 4 years. Same with Cruz.
I’ve heard cRuz speak, for fundraising events, several times. (About three years ago.)
He would NEVER change his speech! Always the SAME stories. The ‘my dad came to this country with his few $$ sewn into his underpants’ got really old, fast.
Yeah, they all have these old sob stories - whether dem or repub - dad was a postal worker, dad was a factory worker, dad was a garbageman...crap like that. Meanwhile, the rest of us were looking for jobs, trying to avoid going on welfare rolls while they all were getting rich.
I speak about Cruz no more than I sincerely believe to be the truth.
He never learned to keep his mouth shut and always falls in with the perpetually butt-hurt leftist. He don’t give two sh*tholes about what happened in the U.S. in the past several decades. It gets exceedingly unfortunate for Cruz.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.