Rafael Cruz, Father of Ted Cruz, Suggests Obama is a Muslim (+Video)

Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz, slammed President Barack Obama this week, suggesting he is a Muslim and tore into Obamacare, saying that care includes “suicide counseling.”
Rafael Cruz, Father of Ted Cruz, Suggests Obama is a Muslim (+Video)
Rafael Cruz (YouTube screenshot)
Jack Phillips
10/2/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz, slammed President Barack Obama this week, accusing him of being a Muslim and tore into Obamacare, saying that care includes “suicide counseling.”

“As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling,” he said in Denver, according to Politico. “Translation: suicide counseling.”

A liberal political blog based in Colorado posted a two-minute long clip of Cruz’s speech.

“What is sad is the RINOs who went running to vote with Harry Reid,” he said, referring to “Republicans in name only.”

He continued. “I know I am in a Republican Party meeting. If you want to throw tomatoes at me, throw tomatoes at me, but unfortunately, you cannot say that the Republican Party is without blame. We have too many RINOs in the Republican Party.”

Sen. Ted Cruz recently garnered headlines last week when he spoke for 21 hours in an unofficial “filibuster” about the Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Later, Cruz’s father suggested that Obama is a Muslim.

“If the winds shifted,” he said, Obama would “side with Muslims,” according to the Daily News. An audience member then said that the president “is a Muslim!”

“McCain couldn’t say that because it wasn’t politically correct,” Cruz responded, according to Death and Taxes.

According to the Daily News, Cruz’s father has been outspoken about his political beliefs since his son started running for office and later taking a U.S. Senate seat in Texas.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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