I bought the Ted Cruz coloring book for my 5 year old last year, I like it to much to let him color in it. I couldn't bring myself to let him do his thing with it.
Posted on 07/02/2015 3:22:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He hoped to emulate Barack Obama's memoir 'Dreams from My Father', which left a lasting impression.
With his new book out this week, Ted Cruz is doing what he does best: getting a lot of attention by attacking … just about everyone. But the political memoir that he’s calling A Time for Truth wasn’t really the book Cruz started out wanting to write, says a source close to the Texas senator and presidential candidate. In fact, Cruz was hoping to emulate the writing of a man he has called “lawless” and “an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists” (among other fine epithets): Barack Obama, whose 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father left a lasting impression on Cruz, according to the source.
While A Time for Truth gives us his whole life story, including a lot about his Cuban-born father, Rafael Cruz, the memoir that Cruz was seriously considering writing was focused far more on his mother and themed on all the strong and loving women who have helped him get along in life. They include his Irish-Italian-descended mother Eleanor Darragh (“a best friend for as long as I can remember,” he writes in A Time for Truth), his “Tia Sonia” — his father’s kid sister who, like her brother, fought as a counterrevolutionary against Castro — his wife Heidi Nelson Cruz, his two half-sisters and of course his two daughters, Caroline and Catherine. Cruz had hoped to define his journey in a deeply personal way, outlining the importance of influential women.
Interestingly, Cruz includes in this select company his troubled half-sister Miriam, an alcoholic and drug addict who lived in a crack house and, Cruz writes in A Time for Truth, stole money from him “to feed her various addictions.” Cruz used his own money nonetheless to put Miriam’s son, Joe, into Valley Forge Military Academy, and Miriam improved for a time until dying of an overdose in 2011. Cruz considered her life story a heartbreaking tale of wasted promise. “I loved my sister, and she spent much of her life trapped by the demons of addiction and anger,” Cruz writes in A Time for Truth.
That Cruz, one of the president’s fiercest critics, should see life-story parallels with Obama isn’t surprising. Like Obama, Cruz has his own vivid tale of a difficult immigrant upbringing. And like Obama, he has an interesting and exotic father, one who spent a lot of time away. The outspoken Rafael is a former pro-Castro revolutionary who turned against Fidel and then, after escaping to the U.S. and marrying and fathering a family, opted to leave Ted and his mother before undergoing an abrupt religious conversion, returning home and becoming a pastor (and ultimately a devoted father, unlike Obama’s absentee Kenyan dad).
So why didn’t Cruz write a book that was mainly about the women in his life? “Well, he still might,” says the source. Right now he’s running for president, and he felt he needed to write a “broader memoir” making his personal and political case for the White House.
Strange book review.
Given the Meme of this article, do you think some of our esteemed FReepers maybe trolls from Politico or DU?
Same strain seems to run through their comments, something like “Quit talking and do something Ted!” or “All Ted’s doing is trying to get attention!”
I’ve seen far too many of the same type of comments on parade here in this hit piece from Freepers to pass it off as a coincidence.
It is nice to see Ted making money while campaigning. The reason for the presidential campaign is lucrative for sure.
Is Politico’s editorial office still co-located with the Democratic National Committee?
Keep out the Mehhicccans and Muzzies and we will back ya.
Yeah, your hero would never think of making money, since he’s taken a vow of poverty or some such, right?
GO CRUZ!
You must be doing something right. You have the leftist commie stes on your arse!
I don’t know but he is still working making Wisconsin a great state.
He's running for office, and the book-writing gambit certainly has had some measure of success for making one's case, and getting talked about... and you seem to indicate that this is a bad thing? SMH
Hate is a strange thing. Drink a beer and relax for a day.
I bought the Ted Cruz coloring book for my 5 year old last year, I like it to much to let him color in it. I couldn't bring myself to let him do his thing with it.
This is so much bull squeeze.
Consider: Obama's relatives don't play much of a role in his story as he tells it.
I don't get the feeling he agonized very long over George, who lived in a box.
Even Barack's parents and grandparents figure as much as parts of his story than as independent people.
This sounds a bit more like George McGovern's book about his daughter.
FWIW, how is Jeb going to deal with Noelle's story?
> “The book Ted Cruz really wanted to write”
Saw the title, then saw the source. Yep, Politico peons got to get their spin in. But little do they know that in the office buildings of federal agencies that prop them up with forced subscriptions, they are actually informing the government employees and lobbyists that there’s a book out by Ted Cruz.
Advertising for Ted’s book is good, no matter what the source.
Well, they have a heap of problems, still, whereas Texas is the #1 state in the union on many counts, so perhaps he should stick with it and stay where he is, no?
Ha Ha! Lol! Although some obituaries I would think are good news! Oops, forgive me Lord! Politics makes me think awful things sometimes! But then some people are really awful!
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