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marmar

(77,090 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 08:08 PM Jun 2015

Lindsey Graham goes off the deep end


Last week's horrific shooting in a black church in Charleston, South Carolina reminded Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) of violence in the Middle East.

"I don't know how you can sit with somebody for an hour in a church and pray with them and get up and shoot them. That's Mideast hate," Graham said Wednesday on the Senate floor. "That's something I didn't think we had here, but apparently we do."

Asked by a reporter after his speech to clarify his comments, Graham told NBC's Frank Thorpe, "What ISIL is doing, that kind of hate. It's kind of that hard-heart, that, you know, heart that has been hardened after generations of hate." ..................(more)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/lindsey-graham-mideast-hate_n_7657558.html




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Lindsey Graham goes off the deep end (Original Post) marmar Jun 2015 OP
No, Lindsey Nite Owl Jun 2015 #1
That's the way the Graham Cracker crumbles. nt Xipe Totec Jun 2015 #2
The man is a fool pscot Jun 2015 #3
If I knew that voting for Lindsey Graham pogglethrope Jun 2015 #4
Say what now? NaturalHigh Jun 2015 #6
He didn't have far to go. LuvNewcastle Jun 2015 #5

Nite Owl

(11,303 posts)
1. No, Lindsey
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 08:19 PM
Jun 2015

it's right wing hate and it's been happening for a couple of decades now. Much as you hate to admit it's been spread but the likes of Fox and your buddy Rush Limpballs and others.

 

pogglethrope

(60 posts)
4. If I knew that voting for Lindsey Graham
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 08:52 PM
Jun 2015

would enable me to live, say, six more years rather than five, I wouldn’t vote for him. Not on a bet.

If voting for him allowed me to live one more year instead of dying tomorrow, chances are I’d vote for him.

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