Name:   GoneFishin - Subject:   Cruz vs Kid Date:   3/16/2015 8:44:50 PM (updated 3/16/2015 8:48:26 PM)

FOX won't report it. Limbaugh won't tell you. Beck won't tell you. But, that GOOFY guy will.........

And he wants to be President..............As a father, I am surprised he did not address the 3 year old and  try to minimize her fear. 

Cruz tells small child: ‘Your world is on fire’

03/16/15 02:59 PM—UPDATeD 03/16/15 04:45 PM

By Steve Benen

For politicians like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), fear is an important motivating tool. Listen to the far-right Texan deliver a typical stump speech and you’ll hear quite a few dire assessments from Cruz about nearly everything.  

But as a rule, when politicians address small children, they dial it down a notch. It made a Cruz eventin New Hampshire the other day that much more noteworthy.

[Cruz said,] “The Obama economy is a disaster. Obamacare is a train wreck. And the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind – the whole world’s on fire!”  

Julie Trant, a child in the audience, took this literally. “The world’s on fire?” she asked. 

“The world is on fire, yes,” said Cruz, not missing a beat as the crowd chuckled. “Your world is on fire.”

Let’s note that the child in this story is just three years old. During the event, she was sitting on her mother’s lap.

Cruz quickly added, however, “But you know what? Your mommy’s here, and everyone’s here to make sure that the world you grow up in is even better.”