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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.”
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“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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CRUZ or LOSE!I’m in. Ted Cruz 2016!
Please add me if I’m not already on your list
What we know about Ted Cruz's education:
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy[33] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[4][6] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[34] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year, as well as Team of the Year, with his debate partner, David Panton.[34] Cruz was a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[35][36] Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[35]
Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and that the last two items in the Bill of Rights offer an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."[37][38]
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[6][39] While at Harvard Law, he was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[4] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."[40][41] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[10]
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.[10][42]
Source: Wikipedia
Obama, the undocumented, MSM-enabled, EXEMPT-Congress enabled
Tyrant-King-Caliph from Indonesia, using Pelosi’s perjury,
is NOTHING like the American Sen. Cruz.
CNN accusing Cruz of anything is a joke. When have they done the same to the feckless one?
What court order sealed his records?
Itching for the first opportunity to vote for Ted Cruz in 2016.
What did Ms Bash have to say to his great answer?
Pretty similar to his answers to Megan Kelly.
He’s cluing the CNN robots in.
They still haven’t vetted Obama.
“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.”
And that’s what I love him.
He’s a rarity in DC. Someone with courage.
The gratuitous use of the word “defends” in the headline is offensive. Typical liberal media trick, implying that Ted Cruz needs to “defend” anything.
Kinda like the character assassination usually preceded by the nebulous and unsupported, “Some people say...”
You’ve been added to the Ted Cruz Ping List!
Speaking of "Some people say...", how's Katie Couric's career doing? Enjoying Yahoo Global News?
““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.””
LOVE it!!!
The more I hear about - and from - Ted Cruz, the more energized I am!
I ‘might’ even re-register as a Republican again so I can vote for him in the primary.
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