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red dog 1

(27,826 posts) Tue Mar 18, 2014, 01:22 AM Mar 2014

A Canadian, a Texan, and a tea bagger walk into a bar

Last edited Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:32 AM - Edit history (1)

and the bartender says, "What'll it be, Senator Cruz?

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A Canadian, a Texan, and a tea bagger walk into a bar (Original Post) red dog 1 Mar 2014 OP

LOL Skittles Mar 2014 #1

Got a chuckle out of me too. nt Live and Learn Mar 2014 #2

Wasn't there a Cuban in the group? (n/t) Jim Lane Mar 2014 #3

Cruz's father is Cuban red dog 1 Mar 2014 #4

Skittles

(153,169 posts)

1. LOL

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 01:25 AM

Mar 2014

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)

2. Got a chuckle out of me too. nt

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 03:43 AM

Mar 2014

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

3. Wasn't there a Cuban in the group? (n/t)

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:19 PM

Mar 2014

red dog 1

(27,826 posts)

4. Cruz's father is Cuban

Reply to Jim Lane (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 03:35 PM

Mar 2014

(From Wikipedia)
According to Robert T. Garret of the Dallas Morning News,
Rafael Cruz suffered beatings and imprisonment for protesting the oppressive regime of the Cuban dictator Bautista.....He fought for communist revolutionary Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution when he was 14 years old, "but didn't know Castro was a communist"
A few years later he became a staunch critic of Castro when "the rebel leader took control and began seizing private property and suppressing dissent."
The elder Cruz fled Cuba in 1957 at the age of 18, landing in Austin, Texas.

(He fought for Castro "but didn't know he was a communist"?)

Trivia about Castro....When he was a kid, Fidel Castro once wrote FDR asking him to "please send me $10 green American"

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