Cruz defends, “I was not a community organizer.”
(Truth Revolt) - On Sunday’s State of the Union, CNN’s Dana Bash broke away from typical liberal media bias and expressed concern about the experience of a presidential candidate.
She read the following description in her interview with the Republican presidential candidate and senator, Ted Cruz:
A Harvard law graduate, 40-something years old, two young daughters, in the Senate for only two years who thinks he can be president. I could be describing you, I could be describing Barack Obama.
“True enough,” Cruz replied, “but I think there are a lot more notable differences between us than the similarities.”
But Bash was eager to tell him what many are saying, “You’re, you know, too young and too inexperienced for the job.”
Cruz defended the comparison to President Obama saying there are two “sharp distinctions” between them: “Number one, in [Obama's] time in the Senate, he had basically been a back-bencher. He had not been leading on issues of any significance. In my time in the Senate, you can accuse me of being a lot of things, but a back-bencher is not one of them.”
Still not convinced, Bash advanced: “That may be true, but the big criticism of President Obama, especially as the years have gone on, is that he didn’t have any experience in an executive function, he didn’t run any organization, and the same can be said about you. What experience do you have to be commander-in-chief of the United States military, for example?”
Cruz said the biggest difference in how he and his fellow Harvard graduate gained experience before serving time as senators:
Well, unlike Barack Obama, I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate. I spent 5 1/2 years as the solicitor general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the State of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. I supervised and led every appeal for the State of Texas in a 4,000 person agency with over 700 lawyers. And over the course of 5 1/2 years, over and over again, Texas led the nation defending conservative principles and winning.
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