[DixieOklahoma]

Segregation isin't the issue

Southern fringe ping

[DixieOklahoma]

Segregation isin't the issue

Southern fringe ping

[clintonh8r]

Proving once again that in addition to all of their other character deficiencies, lefties have no sense of humor.

[inkling]

“We don’t do Lincoln Day Dinners in South Carolina,” Senator Graham told a Lincoln Day gathering in Tennessee Saturday. “It’s nothing personal, but it takes awhile to get over things.”

I'm not a Southerner, but I can't see anything that could be considered even remotely offensive about his comment. This is a controversy?

[rcocean]

Sounds to me like the senator was speaking tongue-in-cheek.

BTW, according to Shelby Foote, Vicksburg didn't celebrate the 4th July until 1946.

I think a lot of southerners have some Irish blood in them.

[MikefromOhio]

who gives a $hit, the civil war has been over for nearly 140 frikin years!!!

Move on!!!!

[Irish Rose]

"Senator Lindsey Graham...referr[ed] to his state’s difficulty in 'getting over' President Abraham Lincoln, with apparent reference to Lincoln’s role in the civil war and the freeing of American slaves."

I'm going to guess here that the Senator isn't mad that Lincoln freed the slaves, but that he completely devastated the South in doing it. Don't forget that Sherman's basic war strategy was to burn down any building standing south of the Mason-Dixon line.

[billorites]

Get over it
Get over it
It's gotta stop sometime, so why don't you quit
Get over it, get over it

[billorites]

And them Georgian's still got their panties in a bunch!

[Txsleuth]

Lindsay Graham MAY want to be a little careful---I don't know how his fellow Republican senators feel about him, but I know that a lot of FReepers---me especially,---have not been real happy with him lately---

He has been waaaaaaaaay too squishy and Rino-y, so I won't be as quick to excuse him as I might say a John Cornyn remark---

I, too, would like to read the total speech before making up my mind on this---

[advance_copy]

Great googly moogly! The DNC can bite the cheese. He was joking, and the joke had nothing to do with race. In case these people don't remember anything about history, there was a war. South Carolina was on one side and Abraham Lincoln was on the other. That's what he was joking about.

[colorado tanker]

It's obvious Graham is talking about the Civil War, not freeing the slaves. The fact that Sherman marched through South Carolina after he finished with Georgia might have a wee bit to do with it. Sheesh.

[brothers4thID]

Wow, and I laughed out loud when I read the quote in CQ yesterday. People need to develop a sense of humour.

[stan_sipple]

Better send Senator Graham to the Trent Lott re-education camp right away, or else liberal yuppies from the northeast will no longer regard South carolina as a nice place to play golf.

[rdb3]

“It’s nothing personal, but it takes awhile to get over things.”

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It takes awhile? Ha! Joke or not, listening to some tell it, you'd think they were in it themselves!

[Noachian]

“We don’t do Lincoln Day Dinners in South Carolina,”

Apparently all Southerners are suppose to forget Lincoln's War of Northern Aggression against the South, because it may upset some Northern Liberals.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

“Joke or not, this is exactly the type of comment that Trent Lott made when he was deposed as leader,” said DNC spokesman Jano Cabrera. “It has no place in public discourse.”

Neither did KKK Byrd's remarks about white *iggers, but I still don't here any outrage from the left over that. Or when was the last time they checked out a statement, any statement, from Maxine Waters or Cynthia McKinney? There are no two more racist people in Congress today. And I know they didn't get all bent out of shape when the U-Boat Commander and other fringe whackjobs compared Dubya to Hitler.

This selective outrage of the left is going to, if not already has, turned people away from them. For them to give a pass to these clowns and useful idiots like Ward Churchill, citing free speech, while trying to crucify Laurence Summers and now Lindsay Graham for making offhand remarks meant either in jest or speculation is so blatantly PC it makes me nauseous.

Most people don't care for bigots, but even fewer care for hypocrites. You'd think the RATS would have figured that out by now.

[Non-Sequitur]

The sad thing is not that the southern GOP is dropping the title of "Lincoln Day Dinner" because they find it insulting to them, but that they insist on substituting "Reagan Day Dinner" as a title. Given what the southern Republicans are doing to the party that is an insult to us.

[mass55th]

I've never heard of a Lincoln Day Dinner and I live in New York State. These Demoncrats are nuts.

[GOPcapitalist]

Good for Graham, and he's absolutely right! State GOP's in the south often do not call their dinner Lincoln Day, and why should they? Lincoln was no conservative, and certainly was no friend of the south.

We call ours Reagan Day instead.