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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLindsey 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
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Nite Owl
(11,303 posts)1. No, Lindsey
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.
Xipe Totec
(43,893 posts)2. That's the way the Graham Cracker crumbles. nt
pscot
(21,024 posts)3. The man is a fool
pogglethrope
(60 posts)4. If I knew that voting for Lindsey Graham
would enable me to live, say, six more years rather than five, I wouldnt vote for him. Not on a bet.
If voting for him allowed me to live one more year instead of dying tomorrow, chances are Id vote for him.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)6. Say what now?
LuvNewcastle
(16,869 posts)5. He didn't have far to go.
Lindsey was born in the deep end.