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(Satire) Cruz Claims Hagel Inspired Marx
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/cruz-claims-hagel-inspire_b_2759196.htmlSenator Ted Cruz (R/TP-TX) launched a blistering attack on Defense Secretary nominee Hagel, asserting a direct link to Karl Marx:
"History shows that Marx not only read Hagel, but took his inspiration from him," said the Princeton-educated Harvard Law School graduate. "I should know. I was taught by at least 12 communist professors at Harvard."
Broadening his attack on Hagel, and citing French(!) socialist professor Alexandre Kojéve's interpretation of Hagel's thesis, Cruz warned of the "danger to America having a secretary of defense who believes that history ended with the Battle of Jena."
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called for a delay in the vote on Hagel's nomination until the Committee had a chance "to read the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Philosophy of Right, two of his key writings, to understand what this nominee really believes, and why he encouraged Karl Marx. These are critical questions for any Defense Secretary nominee."
"History shows that Marx not only read Hagel, but took his inspiration from him," said the Princeton-educated Harvard Law School graduate. "I should know. I was taught by at least 12 communist professors at Harvard."
Broadening his attack on Hagel, and citing French(!) socialist professor Alexandre Kojéve's interpretation of Hagel's thesis, Cruz warned of the "danger to America having a secretary of defense who believes that history ended with the Battle of Jena."
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called for a delay in the vote on Hagel's nomination until the Committee had a chance "to read the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Philosophy of Right, two of his key writings, to understand what this nominee really believes, and why he encouraged Karl Marx. These are critical questions for any Defense Secretary nominee."
