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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:49 AM May 2018

Lindsay Graham is not John McCain's friend and never was.

Lindsey Graham: White House should apologize for McCain remark

BY AVERY ANAPOL - 05/13/18 07:21 AM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the White House should apologize for an aide’s derisive comment about Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Graham told host Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” that he was not satisfied with how the Trump administration has responded to the remark.

“It's [a] pretty disgusting thing to say,” Graham said. “If it was a joke, it was a terrible joke. I just wish somebody from the White House would tell the country that was inappropriate, that's not who we are in the Trump administration.”.....“It doesn't hurt you at all to do the right thing and to be big,” he said. “[If] somebody in my office said such a thing about somebody, I would apologize on behalf of the office.”......Graham recently spent two days in Arizona with the 81-year-old senator, who is his closest friend in the Senate.


* If you are a true friend, you don't go play golf and have lunch with someone who trashes your friend.


http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/387459-lindsey-graham-the-white-house-should-apologize-for-mccain-remark

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Lindsay Graham is not John McCain's friend and never was. (Original Post) SummerSnow May 2018 OP
"That's not who we are in the Trump administration"? Sorry, Senator. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #1
Exactly! FM123 May 2018 #2
McCain voted for the Con malaise May 2018 #3
He was trying to save the dreamers but the racist john kelly JI7 May 2018 #4
What was the "joke"? zipplewrath May 2018 #5
Lindsay Graham is the Remora of politicians. He serialy attaches himself to feed off any and... marble falls May 2018 #6
+1 dalton99a May 2018 #8
Obama is far more loyal to him than Lindsey ever was. Crunchy Frog May 2018 #7

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,586 posts)
1. "That's not who we are in the Trump administration"? Sorry, Senator.
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:54 AM
May 2018

That's exactly who they are in the Trump administration.

malaise

(268,693 posts)
3. McCain voted for the Con
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:58 AM
May 2018

He said he always votes for the ReTHUG candidate. They're all birds of a feather.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
5. What was the "joke"?
Wed May 16, 2018, 11:14 AM
May 2018

If it was a joke, that comment is the "punch line". I'm curious what the set up is that makes that a funny punchline?

My family has a rather sick sense of humor. And when my brother died prematurely, there was no small amount of grief covering with rather "inside" sick humor. We made comments that only a family member would understand the humor. But none of the humor was about the fact that the DID die. There was no "thank god he's dead" kind of humor.

My problem with the whole "joke" thing, is that it looks more like a cover up for getting caught actually saying what many people were thinking.

marble falls

(57,010 posts)
6. Lindsay Graham is the Remora of politicians. He serialy attaches himself to feed off any and...
Wed May 16, 2018, 11:17 AM
May 2018

all photo-ops he can.

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