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Senator Lindsey Graham: "Overall, Obama did a really good job."

Posted on 05/19/2011 9:48:33 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear

Shortly after Obama's speech, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters that he is prepared to go out on a limb for the president to support his plan for investing billions of dollars to spur democracy in the Middle East and North Africa.

“I am willing to take the bruises and stand by Obama to engage countries like Egypt and Tunisia and stay involved in Libya and finish the job in Iraq,” Graham said. “I am willing to take American dollars at a time when we’re flat broke, go back home and suffer the consequences of sending aid to Egypt at a time when South Carolina has 10 percent unemployment because I believe the Egyptian revolution is about a new way of doing business that’s better for us.”

Graham, who has traveled extensively in the Middle East, said he thought Obama made two mistakes in his speech, however. The first was talking about Israeli settlements, and the second was focusing on border issues without addressing the overall complexity of Israel-Palestine negotiations.

“Our friends in Israel are very upset that he only focused on borders,” said the South Carolina Republican. “There are many other aspects of this deal that are being overshadowed.”

But overall, he added, Obama "did a really good job."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: graham; graham4holocaust; graham4ikhwan; israel; obama; rino4ikhwan; rinoantisemitism
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To: Dapper 26
Nope, Tom Coburn said today that we need to raise taxes.

I guess those taxes will go to terrorists in foreign countries now.
61 posted on 05/19/2011 11:04:52 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Hunton Peck
--"Is he campaigning to replace Biden in 2012?"

Either that or...



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You mean like this?:



Cheers
62 posted on 05/19/2011 11:07:12 PM PDT by DoctorBulldog (A lot of people probably just negated my comment while I was hunting and pecking at the keyboard!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

WTFFFF????

63 posted on 05/19/2011 11:15:36 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
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To: Williams; All

Although I am not crazy about giving money to muslims, it will be useful to have some influence in Egypt and Tunisia. One of our bargaining chips with Pakistan is the fact that we give them money which we can also withdraw.


64 posted on 05/19/2011 11:30:29 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Minus_The_Bear

What an absolute disgrace this self-serving twit is.


65 posted on 05/19/2011 11:43:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Lindsey:
You fat, pasty faced, backstabber.

You ain’t right in the head.

You are willing to take bruises...in the ass because you like it.


66 posted on 05/19/2011 11:48:14 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: sasportas

unfortunately, States cannot recall officials elected to Federal offices. A Senator is a 6 year mistake waiting to happen.


67 posted on 05/19/2011 11:58:32 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (I asked the bartender for a bin Ladin, she said 'what's that? I said 'two shots then a splash.')
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Idiocy all ‘round.

End of story.


68 posted on 05/20/2011 12:02:19 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (e)
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To: DoctorBulldog

Exactly! ...although that’s even more grotesque than I had imagined it.


69 posted on 05/20/2011 12:12:57 AM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: DoctorBulldog
COMMODE-HUGGING SICK CARTOON
70 posted on 05/20/2011 12:15:44 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: DoctorBulldog

As they say in ‘Ben Hur’, “Hortator! Ramming speed!”


71 posted on 05/20/2011 12:29:25 AM PDT by jonascord (The Drug War Rapes the Constitution.)
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To: BenLurkin

Simple and to the point. Why do we keep supporting the GOP?


72 posted on 05/20/2011 1:26:14 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

What a disgusting little fairy


73 posted on 05/20/2011 1:34:03 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Conservatives just need to leave the Republican party. Leave these scumbags to themselves. There is no saving this group. People need to leave.


74 posted on 05/20/2011 1:45:45 AM PDT by mrspeelwerneeded
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To: Minus_The_Bear

These people are really loose with our checkbooks.


75 posted on 05/20/2011 1:52:09 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Why do you voters in south Carolina hate America so, to send this pos to Washington dc.
76 posted on 05/20/2011 2:25:12 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Leg tingle.


77 posted on 05/20/2011 2:26:35 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

78 posted on 05/20/2011 2:33:04 AM PDT by mirkwood (Palin- West 2012)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

When I first read those comments, I thought I was reading the Onion.

How can his state vote for Graham? He might as well become a Democrat. It’s not like he belongs to a NE state.

The evangelicals I know from there are all pro Israel.


79 posted on 05/20/2011 2:47:42 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Pass the Chardonnay.


80 posted on 05/20/2011 3:00:17 AM PDT by AdaGray
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