Here is Raphael Cruz, a fake minister for the teaching of Jesus comparing Obama to Castro. This liar will do anything to make our President look bad. His ilk and Blair have made Putin look good.
Jesus was a Socialist.
Jon Presco
MES, Iowa – Rafael Cruz, a pastor from Carrollton and father of Sen. Ted Cruz, rocked the house in Ames with an impassioned 18-minute speech that was part anti-Obama diatribe, part proud papa.
The elder Cruz, warming up a crowd of more than a thousand Christian conservatives at a summit organized by The Family Leader, likened President Barack Obama to Cuba’s longtime communist dictator.
“A young charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro. And we all followed him. We thought he was going to be a liberator,” Cruz said, recalling the 1950s in his homeland.
The invocation of Obama’s catch phrase “hope and change” wasn’t lost on the crowd at Iowa State University.
Like his son, the elder Cruz spoke without notes, pacing the stage.
He recounted his oft-told personal history of torture at the hands of the Batista regime, his move to Texas, and his month long return to Cuba once Castro had taken over.
“That same man who’d been talking about hope and change now was talking about how the rich were evil, how they oppressed the poor, how they needed to redistribute the wealth,” he said, hinting that this darker agenda isn’t far below the surface of Obama’s policies on health care.
“This administration has both their hands in your pocket. They’re going to take everything you have,” Cruz warned later.
He spoke disdainfully of the “socialism at work” in Jimmy Carter’s term, too, which prompted his involvement in The Religious Roundtable, a group of conservative pastors who helped elect Ronald Reagan.
“It was the precursor of the tea party, even before Moral Majority. We did it in 1980, we can do it again,” Cruz said.
That was as close as he came to pitching his son as a future president, though other speakers dropped plenty of hints today in Ames.
The elder Cruz spoke proudly of his son’s prodigy-like ability to memorize the Constitution as a young boy, and the way he dived into conservative economic writing as early as junior high.
“By the time my son came out of high school, he felt passionate about freedom,” Cruz said.
By Caren Bohan
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who is leading a conservative push to eliminate funding for President Barack Obama’s new healthcare law, took his fight on Saturday to a forum of Republican activists where he challenged lawmakers in his party not to “surrender” on Obamacare.
Cruz, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, used a speech to an Americans for Prosperity conference in Orlando, Florida, to take to task those in his party who are wary of risking a possible government shutdown in an effort to fight Obama’s signature healthcare law.
“Right now, the people who are fighting the hardest against our effort to defund Obama, sadly, are Republicans,” Cruz told several hundred activists. “Well, you know what: you lose 100 percent of the fight if you surrender at the outset.”
To loud applause, he added that Republicans should “stand up and win the argument.”
Congress, which returns to Washington on September 9 after a summer break, faces two budget fights in quick succession.
Lawmakers must pass a spending bill by October 1 to avoid a government shutdown. By mid-October, they must pass an increase in the country’s borrowing limit or risk a default on the debt.
Cruz is among a group of conservative lawmakers who want to use the first showdown – over a bill to keep the government funded – to try to block Obamacare.
But many congressional Republicans, including House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, disagree with that approach even though they too oppose Obamacare.
Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, have repeatedly tried to repeal the 2010 healthcare law.
By Caren Bohan
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who is leading a conservative push to eliminate funding for President Barack Obama’s new healthcare law, took his fight on Saturday to a forum of Republican activists where he challenged lawmakers in his party not to “surrender” on Obamacare.
Cruz, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, used a speech to an Americans for Prosperity conference in Orlando, Florida, to take to task those in his party who are wary of risking a possible government shutdown in an effort to fight Obama’s signature healthcare law.
“Right now, the people who are fighting the hardest against our effort to defund Obama, sadly, are Republicans,” Cruz told several hundred activists. “Well, you know what: you lose 100 percent of the fight if you surrender at the outset.”
To loud applause, he added that Republicans should “stand up and win the argument.”
Congress, which returns to Washington on September 9 after a summer break, faces two budget fights in quick succession.
Lawmakers must pass a spending bill by October 1 to avoid a government shutdown. By mid-October, they must pass an increase in the country’s borrowing limit or risk a default on the debt.
Cruz is among a group of conservative lawmakers who want to use the first showdown – over a bill to keep the government funded – to try to block Obamacare.
But many congressional Republicans, including House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, disagree with that approach even though they too oppose Obamacare.
Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, have repeatedly tried to repeal the 2010 healthcare law.
Rosamond Press 
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