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Drawing a parallel between the long-term efforts of her husband's supporters and the fight to end slavery, Heidi Cruz said Tuesday that it took "a lot longer than four years" for the latter fight to be successful.
On a conference call with the campaign's National Prayer Team, Heidi Cruz portrayed Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, which ended a week ago, as one part of a broader journey similar to the abolition of slavery.
I dont want you to feel like any of this was in vain," Heidi Cruz said. "I believe in the power of prayer. This doesnt always happen on the timing of man, and God does not work in four-year segments."
"Be full of faith and so full of joy that this team was chosen to fight a long battle," she continued. "Think that slavery it took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years."
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/10/heidi-cruz-likens-husbands-efforts-slavery/
tanyev
(42,663 posts)Well played, God.
malaise
(269,257 posts)surrounded by parents who parade their ignorance 24/7
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)...Cruz 2020 trial balloon.
You knew this was coming!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)He is talking about jumping back into THIS rae!
No kidding....
Ted Cruz floated the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he wins Nebraskas GOP primary on Tuesday and avoided saying whether he supports Donald Trumps bid for president.
Cruz, who suspended his White House run last week, said he does not expect to win Nebraskas primary but is leaving the door open.
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)I missed that one.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)The idea that not only Ted, but his wife actually believed that god's will was for a couple of christian kooks to enter the White House is astounding. I realize that self-delusion has a large role in the christianist society, but rarely is it so much on display.
the "Nones" are coming, Heidi.
On a side note, 25 years to defeat slavery? What are you smoking, and do you have enough to share?
In 1789, the US ratified its constitution. It effectively institutionalized slavery and counted people of color as 3/5th of a white person.
In 1801, England banned the slave trade. In 1811, Spain outlawed the trade of slaves.
Sweden, France and others followed shortly.
By the 1840s, France, Brazil, and Spain outlawed slavery. Even the Danish West Indies banned slavery in 1846.
It didn't happen in the US anywhere as easily or so soon. One major change was technology. Whitney's cotton gin made the cultivation and cleaning of short fiber cotton far more efficient, allowing the South to grow this cash crop on marginal land. More than any other event, the Cotton Gin increased the demand for cheap labor in the south, made slavery a critical part of southern culture, and relegated two generations of blacks to torture, horrific conditions, and early death.
Not until 1865, when the quaintly named War Between the States began, did the USA face up to the horror that was slavery.
25 years? From which orifice did she pull that so-called fact?
dawg
(10,625 posts)there would have been a lot fewer blacks (and whites) *working* if Ted Cruz had been elected President.