Ted Cruz denies his dad is a birther while admitting his father said Obama should go ‘back to Kenya’

[DonViejo]

Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate and Texas senator, says his father doesn’t believe in birther conspiracies about President Barack Obama despite comments he made on camera.

His father, conservative pastor Rafael Cruz, has frequently made headlines for controversial comments about the president, LGBT rights, the nation’s founding, Common Core education standards, and other topics. But Ted Cruz denies his father is a liability in his quest for the White House.

“I’ll tell you there has been an effort in the media and among some Democrats to try to paint a scary picture of my father,” Cruz told Fox News Radio host Alan Colmes on Thursday. “My father is an extraordinary man. He is a pastor, he is the most loving person I’ve ever known and listen, his personal narrative poses a real threat to many on the left because many on the left like to portray big government as the only solution for those who are struggling who want to achieve the American dream.”

“And the caricature they painted of him is simply false and I’ll give you an example,” he continued. “I’m not familiar with what you just mentioned there but I’ll tell you one of the most off-cited examples that gets repeated in the fever swamps of the Internet is that my dad has said President Obama should go back to Kenya.”

Mother Jones reported in 2013 that Rafael Cruz had called Obama an “outright Marxist” who “seeks to destroy all concept of God,” and told the president to go “back to Kenya” in videos from Tea Party events. But Ted insists his father’s words were taken out of context.

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[flobee1]

1. he is the most loving person I’ve ever known

That quote alone, explains a lot......

[Gothmog]

2. Carnival Cruz and his papa are idiot birthers

[Fawke Em]

3. Which is ironic since Ted was born in another country

and is now running for president.

[SwankyXomb]

5. He never did release his FS-240, did he?

[trotsky]

8. Born in another county with a foreigner as his father!!!

The horrors!

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. That's funny, considering that Cruz Sr was born in Cuba...

and was a Fidelista, apparently, in his younger days.

[Rex]

6. Repukes have this ability to talk out of both sides of their mouth at the same time.

And they get away with it, usually.

[jwirr]

7. Teddy and his dad are worse than birthers. They are both the kind who are after the money. Teddy

says anything that will keep the billionaires supporting him and daddy preaches to the 10%ters. If there were no money in it they would find another message that someone would hand money over to them for.