Makes Sarah Palin look like an intellectual.
Uh-huh.
Speaking to members of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the media, Cruz pointedly attacked the president for repeated missed opportunities to lead on race issues since he came into office.
"He's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions -- that have divided us rather than bring us together," the Texas senator said. […]
Cruz could offer no specific examples on what he could do as President to address the tensions among minority communities when he was pressed.
We can safely put this one in the
presidenting while black category. What has Obama done to inflame racial tensions? When has he even mentioned them, other than after an overt example of those tensions burst into the news cycle, as it has so many times over these years, in an impossible-to-ignore way? Just how mild-mannered would Barack Obama have to be, about racial tensions, before Ted Cruz would grant that he was not "inflaming" people?
To her credit, CNN's Dana Bash pressed him again on what the holy hell Cruz might be going on about. He did not do well.
"I think he has not used his role as President to bring us together. He has exacerbated racial misunderstandings, racial tensions, from back at the beer summit to a series of efforts to pit Americans against each other," he said. "And part of the problem is the way he advocates for any given plan is to paint ... is to build a straw man of the opposition and then vilify caricatures."
Oh yes. However did American race relations survive the "beer summit." Truly an apocalyptic moment, that one.
I truly hope this glorious dumbass manages to stay in the race long enough to stink up more than a few debate stages. Nothing damages conservative philosophy quite as bad as having one of the head yokels say what he really believes.