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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Cruz Fondly Recalls 21-Hour Speech That Started It All
WASHINGTONSpeaking with reporters from his desk in the Oval Office Wednesday, President Ted Cruz found a moment to take a break from his duties as commander in chief and leader of the free world to fondly recall the marathon anti-Obamacare Senate speech he delivered in 2013, the one that propelled his ascent to the presidency.
By explaining that a purple finch is crimson, saying that a Panama hat is from Ecuador, and comparing those who refused to stand up to the Nazis with those who refused to stand up to Obamacare, the then freshman Senator Cruz set himself apart from other presidential hopefuls that fateful September day and instantly became a legitimate contender for the White House.
Cruz went on to handily defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton 509-29 in the 2016 Electoral College, with numerous votersespecially Independents and moderate Democrats and Republicansciting Cruzs speech, and his assertion that law is not a breast that fills itself with milk, as the reason they ultimately cast a ballot for him.
It was a gamble, but it paid off, President Cruz said, adding that he had a feeling on that fateful day years ago that likening his struggle against Obamacare to the rebel alliances battle against the Empire in Star Wars would be a message that would resonate with the nations electorate. I knew I was doing something special, and I knew that the American people would definitely take me and the Republican Party seriously if I compared my speech to the Bataan Death March in which nearly 10,000 Filipino POWs died before they could reach their destination at Camp ODonnell.
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/president-cruz-fondly-recalls-21hour-speech-that-s,34005/
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President Cruz Fondly Recalls 21-Hour Speech That Started It All (Original Post)
Nye Bevan
Sep 2013
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)1. Ugh.
Thank god for Canada.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)2. ....
kentuck
(111,110 posts)3. I wish I had written that one!
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)4. That Photo Is Bone-Chilling. nt
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)5. How soon before he sells the furnishings?