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Lindsey Graham: It's him, not the flag
CNN ^ | 6/19/15 | Walbert Castillo

Posted on 06/20/2015 9:17:07 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck

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Lindsey Graham defending the confederate flag? I never thought Graham would ever say anything that I agree with, much less go against the establishment grain on an issue.

This is probably just a pathetic attempt to jump-start his non-starter Presidential run, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say that a stopped clock still manages to be right twice a day.

1 posted on 06/20/2015 9:17:07 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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There is one book...Americans DO have to blame, for the violence to which it leads.

Its name starts with K and ends with oran.


2 posted on 06/20/2015 9:18:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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He’s right but I don’t trust Lindsay as far as I could throw him.


3 posted on 06/20/2015 9:21:26 AM PDT by McGruff (It's gonna get ugly round here.)
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Exactly. Right message, wrong messenger.


4 posted on 06/20/2015 9:22:51 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Give credit where credit is due. I’m 100% with Graham on this one.

This flag represents states’ rights and, imo, allegience to the Constitution.

Not anyone’s ‘supremacy’ or whatever race-baiting flavor the lying media is using these days.


5 posted on 06/20/2015 9:30:49 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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Attacks on the Confederate Flag aren’t about slavery or the Confederacy. The same people who want to tear the Confederate Flag down want to tear down the American Flag and in fact every symbol of western culture across the board. The Confederate Flag is just an easier and more convenient target, fewer people are outraged by attacks on it or are willing to defend it.


6 posted on 06/20/2015 9:38:10 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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If they take down this flag, then it's on to the Stars & Stripes. From there, it will be illegal to display the Christian cross. The media controls the narrative, so they get to define the meanings of symbols whichever way they choose.

I do believe that I will see it in my lifetime; that people flying the U.S. flag will be called racists. It's already happening at schools in the southwest.

The media is the enemy.

7 posted on 06/20/2015 9:42:55 AM PDT by ponygirl (Put. A. Bird. On. It.)
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I do believe that I will see it in my lifetime; that people flying the U.S. flag will be called racists.

Liberals and leftists have been calling flag-wavers racists since the 1960's.

8 posted on 06/20/2015 9:46:52 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Lindsey Graham defending the confederate flag? I never thought Graham would ever say anything that I agree with, much less go against the establishment grain on an issue.

Pander Bear. He wants to skew the SC electoral map as best he can. McCain taught him well.

9 posted on 06/20/2015 9:47:42 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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*shrug* Blind squirrel, etc.


10 posted on 06/20/2015 10:04:34 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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I am tired of the idea of Confederate flags symbolizing hate. It just isn't so. I am equally tired of it being associated with the no longer existent KKK.


11 posted on 06/20/2015 10:09:10 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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"We're not going to give this a guy an excuse about a book he might have read or a movie he watched or a song he listened to or a symbol out anywhere. It's him ... not the flag,"

I completely agree with that. Totally deranged people like Roof, Holmes, Lanza, Loughner et al latch on to ideas and causes to give form to their insanity not the other way around. It is pointless to search for any rationality in their thinking.

12 posted on 06/20/2015 10:42:40 AM PDT by TigersEye (If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
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Did Roof watch Comedy Central?


13 posted on 06/20/2015 11:16:26 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: ek_hornbeck

For once I agree with him.


14 posted on 06/20/2015 11:50:53 AM PDT by Dante3
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LOL Graham getting some love.


15 posted on 06/20/2015 1:28:58 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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RE:”LOL Graham getting some love.”

Because if he loses SC in the primary he knows he will look pretty stupid.

I could never praise him for anything.

16 posted on 06/21/2015 11:00:38 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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I’m no fan of the Confederate flag so this is especially amusing to me watching him pandering.


17 posted on 06/22/2015 5:39:01 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Paulie
I guess you and I both gave credit a little too soon. True colors always shine through in the end:

First on CNN: Lindsey Graham to call for Confederate flag to come down

18 posted on 06/22/2015 11:14:42 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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RE:”I’m no fan of the Confederate flag so this is especially amusing to me watching him pandering.”

Grahamnsety has already flipped on this. Now he is against the flag calling for it's removal,
So all those posters who praised him for standing by it are suckers.

This is how he won this primary after taking liberal position after position, gullible suckers.

First on CNN: Lindsey Graham to call for Confederate flag to come down(6/22/2015 )

19 posted on 06/23/2015 8:44:31 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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LOL - I called his office yesterday and told his staff that he should demand that the flag be taken down. In fact, he should get a picture of him taking the flag down.

Then I told them that come the next election we were going to make sure he would never get elected again and the picture would be very helpful in our campaign. That picture would be just enough to send any sane South Carolinian over the edge.

Hey - maybe our calls had an impact.


20 posted on 06/23/2015 8:49:44 PM PDT by ladyjane
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