WARMONGER WITH THE CONFEDERATE CONSULTANT WEIGHS IN ON FLAG ISSUE …
|| By FITSNEWS || U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham – who is running as the “bomb everybody” candidate for president of the United States – has waded into the latest and greatest Confederate flag controversy.
During an appearance on CNN’s New Day, Graham addressed the 2000 compromise which moved the flag from the dome of the S.C. State House (and out of the House and Senate chambers) to a prominent location on the State House grounds.
“At the end of the day it’s time for people in South Carolina to revisit that decision,” Graham said, adding such a revisitation “would be fine with me.”
Of course he quickly sounded a conflicted tone …
“But this is part of who we are,” he said. “The flag represents to some people a civil war and that was the symbol of one side – to others it’s a racist symbol. And it’s been used by people – it’s been used in a racist way.”
Here’s the exchange …
Is it time to stop flying the Confederate flag? @LindseyGrahamSC says "this is part of who we are." http://t.co/2VOAdpk9O2
— New Day (@NewDay) June 19, 2015
Graham’s commentary on this issue is interesting, to say the least, given the long-held Confederate sympathies of his longtime political consultant – Richard Quinn. In fact Quinn’s history as a “Southern Partisan” was revisited earlier this year at the national level – rendering him all but unemployable to any presidential candidate not named Lindsey Graham.
One GOP operative blasted Graham for his association with Quinn.
“You know what? You lose the right to openly discuss this crap with you have Quinn on the payroll,” the operative said.
We’re not going to judge Graham on his choice of consultant. Or his wishy-washiness on the flag.
What will we judge him on? This, this … and most importantly, this.
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An former coworker was fond of the saying “The higher you climb the tree, the more you show your ass.” Seems still to apply with Graham.
“Before I make you boss, I want to tattoo
“Assistant” around your asshole.”
? Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
That’s disgusting.I bet he keeps his buttocks pliable with Vaseline,and then pulls out the Astroglide for,The Mounting.Come on Lindsey,I’m gonna ride you all the way back to South Carolina…
I keep forgetting that metaphors may be missed by some readers.
Often, intentionally.
I keep forgetting that metaphors may be missed by some readers.
That’s disgusting.I bet he keeps his buttocks pliable with Vaseline,and then pulls out the Astroglide for,The Mounting.Come on Lindsey,I’m gonna ride you all the way back to South Carolina…
Another big-mouthed gutless SC Republican having to pander to the GOP base.
How does saying different things out of two sides of your mouth “pander” to anybody? Pandering would be taking a hard line stance solely for the purpose of garnering votes and support.
He appears to have started off saying what he really felt, then realized he better catch himself fast is he wanted to have a chance in the SCGOP primary next year. That’s the pandering.
How does saying different things out of two sides of your mouth “pander” to anybody? Pandering would be taking a hard line stance solely for the purpose of garnering votes and support.
Lindsey Graham is always sticking his foot in his mouth along with other assorted body parts.
Which prompts me to ask, “Will someone please tell me that the woman in red/black did not just step in some poo?”
She is doing the “Hot Doo-Key Two Step.” It is a dance that all politicians do to avoid the hot and controversial topics.
First of all, it’s not even the correct flag. The flag of secession is a red flag with an upturned crescent shining down on a palmetto tree. I have a photograph of it from 1863 (in digital format), taken by a Yankee photographer after it had been captured. While we’re at it, the first Congressional flag was the Cowpens flag, which predated the “Betsy Ross” flag by a few weeks -12 stars in a circle with a single, same-sized star in the center of the canton, 13 stripes major. As for Graham, it’s no surprise that he says what he thinks people want to hear – “the candidate’s a dodger – he’s a well known dodger.”
Thanks — for keeping the issue of multiple flags in focus..
I’m not against a flag on the monument, but why do we have to have the one and only incendiary symbol? None of my relatives died in the Late Unpleasantness; they led others to die. They knew it and it changed them. As a state, we lost. We were occupied and paid the wergelt. But we learned a humility which other states have not. That’s why we grieve so with our black brothers and sisters. Let’s change the flag to its original, or take it down.
If we had learned humility, that flag would not be flying on the state house grounds or as parts of other states’ state flags.
That lack of humility is THE problem.
I wasn’t speaking of the po buckra. The “we” I was referring to are those of us, the slim, but real majority who have fought since the 60’s to make S.C. a better place. I am proud of my state and most of my state’s history. It is my history – I own it. I will not eschew a moment of it, even if I disapprove a part of it.
First of all, it’s not even the correct flag. The flag of secession is a red flag with an upturned crescent shining down on a palmetto tree. I have a photograph of it from 1863 (in digital format), taken by a Yankee photographer after it had been captured. While we’re at it, the first Congressional flag was the Cowpens flag, which predated the “Betsy Ross” flag by a few weeks -12 stars in a circle with a single, same-sized star in the center of the canton, 13 stripes major. As for Graham, it’s no surprise that he says what he thinks people want to hear – “the candidate’s a dodger – he’s a well known dodger.”
Sorry LuLu this may be a part of who you are, not mine.
Graham is now campaigning for higher office, and he knows most of the nation and most of his potential voters have reached their tipping point when it comes to tolerance of SC and the state’s problems with the concept of time. He cannot run without taking an even stronger stand for the flag to be removed, and the “who we are”bit simply allows hm to fall back on something when the campaign comes up short of its goal.
inn.
“You know what? You lose the right to openly discuss this crap with you have Quinn on the payroll,” the operative said.
Wow.
Just wow.
Normally I’d tell Lindsey to “stuff a sock in it”, but I have to make sure I accentuate the “S” in sock or he pesters me endlessly.
Telling him “I ain’t gay” doesn’t seem to help, he just laughs it off.
Graham is a quack.
“But this is part of who we are,” he said. He’s right. You’re racists.
Don’t expect any of the Repig candidates to denounce racism. They don’t want to alienate their base.
This faggot should be deported to Iran.