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Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘Our President Should Have Been There’
TIME ^ | January 12, 2015 | By Senator Ted Cruz

Posted on 01/12/2015 2:05:17 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

We must never hesitate to stand with our allies. We should never hesitate to speak the truth. In Paris or anywhere else in the world.

On Sunday, leaders representing Europe, Israel, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East linked arms and marched together down Place de la Concorde in Paris. But, sadly, no one from the White House was found among the more than 40 Presidents and Prime Ministers who walked the streets with hundreds of thousands of French citizens demonstrating their solidarity against radical Islamic terrorists.

The absence is symbolic of the lack of American leadership on the world stage, and it is dangerous. The attack on Paris, just like previous assaults on Israel and other allies, is an attack on our shared values. And, we are stronger when we stand together, as French President François Hollande said, for “liberty, equality, and fraternity.”

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To: gwgn02

Ten bucks says a President Cruz would have gotten some very practical advice from his closest advisors, and would have had a last-minute change of plans.


21 posted on 01/12/2015 2:27:46 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("The ship be sinking.")
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To: Pollster1

Why?


22 posted on 01/12/2015 2:28:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Did anyone expect the president to be there? He is a communists black Muslim traitor.
23 posted on 01/12/2015 2:30:59 PM PST by Logical me
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Damn right he should have , but lets not forget he probably never got permission of Chewbacca who wanted him home and for him to watch the football game.

Yet again the Lazy in Chief has disappeared .


24 posted on 01/12/2015 2:32:35 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Alberta's Child

I’ve been a bit confused by this too. It would have been too much of a pain to have gone to this. The amount of security and logistics would have been a waste of tax money.

But I’m not going to stand in the way of the firing squad.


25 posted on 01/12/2015 2:33:04 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Barry needed to watch the playoff games.


26 posted on 01/12/2015 2:33:36 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: dfwgator

You don’t consider the current occupant of our White House an American, do you?


27 posted on 01/12/2015 2:34:03 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: demshateGod

First time he made a decision that actually saved the taxpayers money.


28 posted on 01/12/2015 2:34:14 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

No, but what did this farce of a march actually accomplish?


29 posted on 01/12/2015 2:34:59 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: VanDeKoik

It’s amazing how the political angle of this story has turned everything upside down. I think most Freepers would have rightly scorned a Republican president who attended a rally like this in France. LOL.


30 posted on 01/12/2015 2:36:56 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("The ship be sinking.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Obama wanted to be there... for the counter-protest.


31 posted on 01/12/2015 2:37:43 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Alberta's Child

Since when do Freepers fall for “Symbolism over Substance” anyway?


32 posted on 01/12/2015 2:37:56 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

No he shouldn’t. The Secret Service would have made a circus of the whole event.


33 posted on 01/12/2015 2:39:13 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: gwgn02

A President Cruz would have been there.

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I’m not so sure. After all, this turned out to be a giant apology-fest to Islam. As Hollande himself was making excuses for Islam and just today - Merkel of Germany was kissing bleep with the muzzies.

I would hope if Pres. Cruz WAS there he would have angered and infuriated the rest of these Euro-weenies with their muslim suck-up attitudes.


34 posted on 01/12/2015 2:39:42 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Hi Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: Brother Cracker
A U.S. President marching with that group of people in the streets of Paris would have come off looking like a total jack@ss.

Real leaders don't march at a "unity rally" like that.

35 posted on 01/12/2015 2:39:59 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("The ship be sinking.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

They called it a “Unity March”, but they wouldn’t invite Le Pen or Farage.


36 posted on 01/12/2015 2:40:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
All over these threads, apparently. LOL.
37 posted on 01/12/2015 2:40:57 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("The ship be sinking.")
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To: Alberta's Child
A U.S. President marching with that group of people in the streets of Paris would have come off looking like a total jack@ss.

Real leaders don't march at a "unity rally" like that.


What you want to bet that a President Rand Paul would have been all over that?

A President Rand Paul, with his appeasing approach to Foreign Policy and his lately visible political correctness would have been the first in line for such an event.
38 posted on 01/12/2015 2:42:27 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Alberta's Child

The only “March” I want to see is French troops “Marching” into the No Go Zones.


39 posted on 01/12/2015 2:42:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Alberta's Child
 
I absolutely disagree with Cruz on this, and I'm surprised there aren't more conservatives who see it this way.

I can't think of any basis for the belief that a U.S. leader has some kind of moral obligation to show up at a political rally in a foreign country. I can't even compile a picture in my mind of Ronald Reagan doing such a thing ... in France, of all places.

You get no argument from me. After all this turned out to be a huge apology-fest with Euro-trash leaders falling all over themselves repeating the same old Obama; "We are not at war with Islam, blah, blah, blah..."

40 posted on 01/12/2015 2:42:41 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Hi Al Baby's Mom!)
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