Posted on 07/17/2013 7:17:16 AM PDT by don-o
Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has said that the United States should consider a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia if Moscow decides to grant asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Sen. Graham told The Hill Tuesday that the Russians' recent actions involving Snowden were outrageous and agreed that a boycott should be a possibility when asked.
I would. I would just send the Russians the most unequivocal signal I could send them, Graham said. We certainly haven't reset our relationship with Russia in a positive way. At the end of the day, if they grant this guy asylum its a breach of the rule of law as we know it and is a slap in the face to the United States.
Such a boycott would recall the Olympic boycotts of the 1980s, when President Carter boycotted the Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union over the invasion of Afghanistan, and four years later the Soviets responded by boycotting the Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles.
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We know Graham is an idiot, he’s proven it repeatedly. Here’s the real story - He knows he has lost the support of the conservatives. He s so out of touch he thinks a “bash the Russkis” policy will win them back. What he doesn’t understand is that he and McCain have drifted so far to the left, we conservatives have more respect for Putin than we have for those two.
He’s just an irrelevant gasbag in desperate search of a clue.
US should consider boycotting Pansy Graham.
I also suspect that any athlete who went might encounter long, mysterious delays when time came to renew their passport.
Or the Constitution!
And, thank-you Mister Graham.
This is another foolish and ill-thought-out statement; and it will make a most useful sound bite for your GOP rival in the forthcoming, 2014 primary election for Senator in the great state of S.C.
Like anyone wants undue attention directed their way by THIS gub mint???
Ah shut up, Goober.
If anyone is a traitor, it’s you.
He turned out to be such an idiot.
Boycott: boy on a cot.
It’s raining men at the Olympics, Linda:
Pole-vaulting. Manhole hurdling.
Greco-Roman rumpwrangling.
Ridiculous.
FU Graham!!!
in trouble Graham is hoping and looking for a populist line he can try to boost his cred with - hope it fails
Our athletes train hard for years, giving their whole lives to that one shining day in the sun to represent America. No politician should take that away for a gesture.
My guess is that there still must some 30% of the people in Russia who are communists and that 90% of the griping and complaining is coming from them.
I’ve considered and adopted a position of not voting for Graham ever again.
Your comment bears repeating. I am not an athlete but I know someone who possibly could have competed in 1980. Never got the chance again. It was heartbreaking.
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Id like to know if there is one anti-amnesty Democrat running for US Senate somewhere. John Barrow has declined in Georgia.
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