Posted on 03/29/2015 2:55:27 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
WASHINGTON (CNN) — They’re both Harvard Law School graduates, constitutional lawyers and senators who launched presidential campaigns during their first terms.
But Ted Cruz has little else in common with Barack Obama, he said Sunday.
“I think there are a lot more notable differences between us than the similarities,” the Texas Republican told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
He said he’s had much more influence in the Senate than Obama, who he said was a “back-bencher” during his four years there.
“He had not been leading on issues of any significance,” Cruz said. “In my time in the Senate, you can accuse me of being a lot of things, but a back-bencher is not one of them.”
. . .
“I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate,” Cruz said, referring to Obama’s work after college and before law school.
“I spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court,” he said. “I supervised and led every appeal for the state of Texas in a 4,000 person agency with over 700 lawyers and over the course of five and a half years, over and over again, Texas led the nation defending conservative principles and winning.”
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Well, isn’t that perfect!
Well it is the Republicans turn again, so
Rafael Cruz (R)
Piyush Jindal (R)
Marco Rubio (R)
Just because YOU say something, does not make it true.
From your link:
Upon receipt of a notice of intent to disclose Presidential records, the Attorney General (directly or through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel) and the Counsel to the President shall review as they deem appropriate the records covered by the notice and consult with each other, the Archivist, and such other executive agencies as they deem appropriate concerning whether invocation of executive privilege is justified.
He has executive experience.
Running a 4,000 person agency maybe not the same as running a state but it does require one to use managing skills that community orginizing does not.
He has shown he is able to meet budget goals, manage personnel, (some, I’m sure, had to be terminated by him), and he had to determine which lawyers were best suited for which case and then monitor the progress of the cases being pursued.
He also would have had the final say on what cases to not pursue because of budget and personnel considerations.
Finally, from Google search: Prior to becoming Solicitor General, he served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
Chester A Arthur (R)
Barry Soetoro (D)
Well it is the Republicans turn again, so
Rafael Cruz (R)
Piyush Jindal (R)
Marco Rubio (R)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
HUH?
AFAIK, no one knew about Arthur’s “problem.”
OTOH, the Democratic National Committee, and millions of other people, have known of Soetoro’s “problem” all along. The Democratic Party and the press have all been complicit.
AFAIK, all three of your other “examples” have been citizens from the moment of their birth—so what’s your point?
Hoover had MASSIVE and spectacularly successful “executive experience.” He saved the lives of millions of Europeans immediately after WWI.
Hoover’s problems were philosophical. He was a progressive meddler who did not understand economics. The result was the Hoover-Roosevelt Depression. If Coolidge had been President, the recession of 1930 would have been over early in 1931 at the latest.
Discussing “executive experience” is a dodge for people who don’t understand political philosophies or economics, but want to sound as though they have ideas.
Ditto.
Upon receipt of a notice of intent to disclose Presidential records, the Attorney General (directly or through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel) and the Counsel to the President shall review as they deem appropriate the records covered by the notice and consult with each other, the Archivist, and such other executive agencies as they deem appropriate concerning whether invocation of executive privilege is justified.
And how does that seal the records?
Rafael Cruz (R)
Piyush Jindal (R)
Marco Rubio (R)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Where in the Constitution does it say that a President may not be named “Rafael,” “Piyush,” or “Marco”?
I have to wonder if any ones informed Revrunt Sharpton that it’s Ted Cruz....rather than Ted’s Crew...yet??
“He has shown he is able to meet budget goals...”
Hey, he’s better than Obama by far then!
That’s true - running a 4000-person team is no small feat. That’s probably more employees than a governor would deal with.
Hey JB,
I apologize for how I approached this debate with you last night. Please forgive me for some of the things I said. I have no right to impugn your motivation. I stand by my position, but my approach was all wrong.
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