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Ted Cruz: Obama 'an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists'
Politico ^ | 2/19/15 7:32 AM EST | Nick Gass

Posted on 02/19/2015 7:25:59 AM PST by SoConPubbie

“ISIS is the face of evil, and these latest atrocities … our heart breaks,” he said on the Fox News program “The Kelly File” on Wednesday night, using an alternate acronym for the terrorist group. “And to see 21 Coptic Christians murdered, beheaded by radical Islamic terrorists, to see 45 people lit on fire … this is horrific and it is deliberate and it is targeted at Christians. It is targeted at Jews. It’s targeted at Muslims in the region who do not accede to the radical Islamist view.”

The president defended his words on ISIL on Wednesday during the White House summit on violent extremism, reiterating that the United States is not “at war with Islam.”

“We are at war with people who have perverted Islam,” he said during his closing speech.

Cruz also slammed remarks from State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, who said earlier this week that the U.S. “cannot kill its way out” of the war against ISIL, suggesting an examination of the root causes of extremism in addition to military action.

“Now, with respect, that is idiocy,” he said. “The solution here is not expanded Medicaid. The solution is the full force of U.S. military power to destroy the leaders of ISIS. They have declared war … jihad on the United States. Jihad is another word the president doesn’t say.”

Cruz then blasted a “false moral relativism” from the administrating, admonishing the president for remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in which he mentioned people who “committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.”

“Now last I checked, the Crusades began a millennia ago, and I don’t think it’s too much to ask the president to stay in the current millennium,” Cruz remarked, before suggesting the president take a cue from his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Cruz praised al-Sisi, a Muslim, who used the occasion of his New Year’s Day speech to speak out against religious extremism.

“Why don’t we see the president of the United States demonstrating that same courage just to speak the truth about the face of evil we’re facing right now?” he asked.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: apologist; cruz; elections; isis; obama; obamaradicalislam; tedcruz
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To: V_TWIN

What do you expect? The guy IS a Muslim, more shame on Americans for electing a Muslim when the Muslims are at war with them.


21 posted on 02/19/2015 8:16:12 AM PST by expat2
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To: lapsus calami

Yes, you nailed it.


22 posted on 02/19/2015 8:17:12 AM PST by expat2
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To: SoConPubbie
... State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, who said earlier this week that the U.S. “cannot kill its way out” of the war against ISIL, suggesting an examination of the root causes of extremism in addition to military action.

Amateur hour at the State department. Who knew? Do they have 2 for one beer?

23 posted on 02/19/2015 8:20:23 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: SoConPubbie
Obama is not an apologist for islamic terrorists.

HE IS AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST !!

24 posted on 02/19/2015 8:20:57 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We are now at the point where this regime must be defenestrated by a military coup and its enablers destroyed via a short but savage civil war.

The time for voting, talking and debates is, to quote a famous philosopher, “...a distant ship smoke on the horizon.” And it’s not heading our way.


25 posted on 02/19/2015 8:21:21 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: V_TWIN
Agreed. We need to send this guy packing and get an adult back in charge.


26 posted on 02/19/2015 8:28:25 AM PST by TheDon (The genocide in Iraq is the legacy of Barack Obama.)
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To: Noumenon

It would be a very very very short civil war because there is not a cop or military vet who supports this administration. They would all stand down rather than defend this puke. Just imagine a million or so armed and ready citizens descending upon Washington calling for the arrest of B. Hussein. Plan a flash mob, it would be over very very quick. Secret service can shuttle him away, fine. We’ll take over the White House, the Capital, put in place a new leader. You are no longer recognized B. Hussein by Order of the people.


27 posted on 02/19/2015 8:37:43 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 11 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I believe that there are some lamp posts in Washington DC that are in need of some decoration.


28 posted on 02/19/2015 8:40:52 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Such a courageous truth telling man!


29 posted on 02/19/2015 8:42:39 AM PST by uncitizen (They demand we judge them by the color of their skin)
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To: SoConPubbie; All

I stand with Ted


30 posted on 02/19/2015 8:55:49 AM PST by Nifster
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To: stephenjohnbanker

It’s saying something that just calling the sky blue in DC these days qualifies one as a profile in courage. Not to take anything away from Ted Cruz, but that’s the depth to which this country has sunk-that just speaking a plain, normally non-controversial fact is a courageous act. That more than anything tells us that we are already in Orwellian times.


31 posted on 02/19/2015 9:20:04 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: SoConPubbie

When IF ever will the real American’s IF there are any in the Democratic Party step up against Obama?

I hope he ruins their damn party. For decades. Or maybe forever.


32 posted on 02/19/2015 9:20:23 AM PST by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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To: mrsmel

Correct, and I am as mortified as you are.


33 posted on 02/19/2015 9:21:45 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

All this because the “Submission Accomplished” President pulled troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and doesn’t want the blame for putting them back.

I say we ask Hillary why the troops were pulled out. See what her excuse is.


34 posted on 02/19/2015 9:27:37 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

” I say we ask Hillary why the troops were pulled out. See what her excuse is.”

GREAT idea!

Put the miserable wretch on the spot.


35 posted on 02/19/2015 9:30:28 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
You are so correct, and I don't understand why even people on the right are so apparently loathe to believe almost the only truth Hussein has ever told us all from his own lips-his Muslim faith, as he said to Stephanopoulos, his determination to stand with Muslims if the political winds should blow against them, the obeisance he gives to every Muslim leader while denying even due respect to other heads of state, etc. The “Christian” church he attended as a political front openly touted Louis Farrakhan. Hussein has done everything except say “I am a Muslim”, and he came close enough in the Stephanopoulos interview before Georgie helpfully corrected him. His remarks about the Islam call to prayer being one of the most beautiful sounds to him, his refusal to engage brazen Muslim murderers-in the name of Islam, by their own words-there is a ton of circumstantial evidence that Hussein is a Muslim, and if you disregard Stephanopuolos’ correction, more than circumstantial.
36 posted on 02/19/2015 9:35:43 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: SoConPubbie

No eyecandy, no political tricks, not need to parse. Just plain spoken American patriotism. Who could ask for more?

Sen Cruz speaks to us, not at us. Refreshing.


37 posted on 02/19/2015 11:17:43 AM PST by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Marie Harf, who said earlier this week that the U.S. “cannot kill its way out” of the war against ISIL,>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thats OK Harfsey Barfsey. Stand by and watch US kill every stinking mother effin’ one of them.

And whats more, they need burying after anointing with pigs grease. No Virginians for them.


38 posted on 02/19/2015 3:27:24 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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