WH: Cruz’s ‘Obama Wants Your Guns’ Ad ‘Veers’ Into ‘Being Irresponsible’

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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday criticized Sen. Ted Cruz’s “unfortunate” fundraising page declaring that President “Obama Wants Your Guns.”

Following President Obama’s announcement of new executive orders regarding gun control, Cruz’s presidential campaign put up a fundraising page declaring that “Obama Wants Your Guns,” depicting the President in military gear.

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  1. I don’t like when foreigners insult our President.

  2. Obama looks pretty Boss in that picture.

  3. So which is it: a weepy pussy, or a helmeted jackbooted thug?

  4. Seriously…they truly can’t make up their minds…“ineffectual do-nothing non-achiever who has accomplished nothing other than golf vacations” one minute and “tyrannical dictator who has jammed everything he wanted down our throats, destroyed the country and fundamentally changed the very fabric of our nation” the next.

  5. What’s frightening is the number of people that believe this crap. Rethuglican’s continual stoking of this myth will surely lead to more massacres.

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