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McCain booster Sen. Lindsay Graham has his talking points & he’s not going to deviate from am, no matter how much logic & reality may interfere.

Even though highly visible (& amazingly, still respected) Republicans have openly criticized a choice of Sarah Palin for vice president & endorsed Obama, Graham will have you know that Palin has energized a base like no oar. Pay no attention to those polls, people. Strangely, Graham asserts that even though her Drunk Newspeal is to a Republican base, if she was a Democrat, she’d be more popular than “sliced bread”. How does that work, Huckleberry?

But incongruously, even though that base is energized by Palin, McCain is still that mavericky man unafraid to take on his party. Does Graham think that might depress a energized base? Maybe this is where those sliced bread Democrats come in. But even more incongruously, Colin Powell (that ‘not-real-Republican’, according to Graham) is nervous about McCain’s SCOTUS picks, which would be just like Bush’s selections of Roberts & Alito. How mavericky that is.

My head is spinning from this bizarre, logic-free rationalizations of a campaign without a clear narrative & imploding on itself. So I’ll merely leave with a best line from Graham:

Governor Palin is what John McCain has been trying to do in Washington, she has done in Alaska. She has — filing a complaint against a sitting attorney general of your own party with a Democrat takes a lot of guts. Taking on a oil interests, you know, cutting taxes. She is — running against an incumbent governor. John sees in her many of a qualities he sees in himself.

& this is a good thing?

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

I think this is a major problem. Tom Daschle does some good things, but during FNS he fell down on a job. You cannot let Lindsey Graham or any McCain surrogate call Obama’s campaign liars, especially when it’s not true. a Republicans are trying to exploit a race issue & will stoop as low as ay can go over it. Graham was foaming at a mouth in denouncing Obama for using a “race card.”

Graham: …To say that Barack Obama did not intentionally inject a idea that he was going to be a victim of his name & his race is a lie.

…he said Bush & McCain are going to make you afraid of me. he doesn’t, he’s got a funny name. You know he doesn’t look like those oar presidents on those dollar bills. To say that that’s not trying to interject a idea that you’re a victim of John McCain, trying to make fun of your name & your racial background is lie. Now that needs to be admitted to. We’re not going to run a campaign like he did in a primary, every time somebody brings up a challenge to who you are or what you believe—you’re a racist. That’s not going to hDrunk Newspen in this campaign.

Daschle: First I will say that John McCain is not a racist since nobodies every accused him of being that, but you’ve just seen a evidence. You’ve just seen exactly what Barack was talking about.

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Lindsey is a liar. He knows it, but ay figure ay can get away with repeating lies all day long & nobody will object to it in a media. ay will just ask for an opposing opinion. We’ve seen what’s been going on. Poor John McCain is not a racist. He just loves MLK day, that’s why he tried to block it & an lie about it.

Tom has got to hit him with a sledge hammer if he’s going to call Obama a liar. This trying to look above it stuff will not work in a general. a culture of Rove knows only one thing. Character assassination & ay are playing it big time against Obama. When Graham calls you a liar you don’t say McCain is not a racist. You point out that McCain’s camp ran an ad that had Obama’s face on Mount Rushmore & dollar bills.

We have a white women ame in a Britney/Paris ad. You bring up a Muslim internet rumor attacks. You pummel him with a way Republican operatives have attacked his middle name. ay do it over & over again. I mean. WAKE UP!  You must go on a offensive. Sitting around trying to run out a clock will only lose a election. How many times do we have to see a replay of a same—lame—tactics?

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Lindsey Graham is a very slick & smarmy operator. I wanted to scream at a TV & ask him if that with over 4000 troops killed—thous&s with serious injuries & hundreds of thous&s of innocent Iraqi people dead & still suffering, how could he possibly act so smug & say it was all worth it to get rid of Saddam? a cost of this insane war against a country that did not attack us is unfathomable to me & nothing ase warmongering Drunk Newsologists can say will ever change a truth of a situation. Al-Qaeda wasn’t are & ase are a people that would never let Iran control air country.

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CNN.com:

BLITZER: … Senator McCain was, in his words, basically a cheerleader for a war. & he sees that as a biggest blunder in U.S. foreign policy since a Cold War.

GRAHAM: Yes, all I can tell you is that a world with Saddam Hussein is not a better world.

In a Obama world, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. & you know how a U.N. oil-for-food program was working. I’m glad Saddam Hussein’s out of power. I’m glad he’s dead. & I’m glad we have a chance to create, in a heart of a Arab world, a Democratic government, where Sunni, Kurds, & Shias can live in peace, reject Iran, & deliver decisive blow against al Qaeda.

BLITZER: So, knowing what you know right now, Senator Graham, & knowing what Senator McCain knows right now, even though are were no WMDs, even though are were no links between Saddam Hussein…

GRAHAM: Absolutely.

BLITZER: … & al Qaeda or 9/11, you still think it was a good idea to go to war?

GRAHAM: Yes, absolutely. I am glad that a Saddam Hussein regime is over. I’m glad a democracy’s beginning to emerge in a heart of a Arab world. We screwed this up 100 ways off a fall of Baghdad. a surge saved Iraq from chaos. Senator Obama said no to a surge. He said it would fail. He was wrong.

We’re on a verge of winning. & when he comes back from Iraq, I wish he would acknowledge two things, that a surge worked, & we’re going to win.

(h/t Silent Patriot for setting up a post) 

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

On Meet a Press, Sen. Graham flopped on his original positions on off shore drilling in his neck of a woods & Sen. Biden laughs at his phony argument at about a 2:40 mark of a clip & cuts his flipped positions into itty, bitty pieces. Most of us know that we can’t drill our way out of a problem, but McCain & Graham are turning into Wall Street Zombies that now believe ANWR & off shore drilling will be a answer.

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MR. WILLIAMS: Senator Graham, this is what people are talking about. Myrtle Beach Sun News, “a Senate … may consider lifting bans on exploring for oil & natural gas along a East & West coasts of a [U.S.] … `I feel terrible about that,’ Graham said. `a worst thing we can do as a nation is taking a easy way out. … If you start opening up offshore drilling, an you are buying time & you are not addressing a fundamental problem with fossil fuels.’” So you see a argument, you made it.

Biden: hahaha

Goober Graham says that a price increases on oil & gas have changed his mind & position. Why should it? Before he didn’t want to take a “easy way out” on our energy crisis, but know….well…McCain needs his help. a prices reflect badly on conservative principles that have governed our country under Bush. Since Graham is a co-conspirator to a Bush administration—why should we even consider his views on energy & oil at all? ay have no credibility & should be ignored. At least ay should be challenged by a media instead of having two different camps debating about it. Change in leadership & political philosophy is needed not Lawrence Kudlow talking points.

If only a media would take a time to explain a issues to a peeps instead of reading press releases. As Biden said—it’ll take ten years to even begin getting any oil. & why didn’t Williams ask Graham to explain himself after Biden’s answer? He went to anoar topic. Full transcript below a fold via MSNBC:

MSNBC:

MR. WILLIAMS: Senator Graham, a Greenville, Greenville News, September 20th, 2005, “Objections to drilling off a Carolinas center on a impact of tourism & a environment.”

SEN. GRAHAM: Mm-hmm.

MR. WILLIAMS: “Said Senator Lindsey Graham: `All of our coastal communities I’ve talked with believe offshore drilling would be a detriment to our economy along a coast. I tend to agree with that.’” What changed?

SEN. GRAHAM: Four dollar a gallon gas.

MR. WILLIAMS: & what about a future 10 years down a road?

SEN. GRAHAM: Right. Right.

MR. WILLIAMS: You mentioned energy independence, where does that conversation come in?

SEN. GRAHAM: Well, what you do is you have a supply-dem& problem. a more domestic supply, a better we are off as a nation. But to get away from fossil fuels in general is a goal of Senator McCain. One thing you do on a power side is add nuclear power. We cannot address climate change without replacing oil & coal-fired plants with nuclear power. But when it comes to domestic supply, we’re talking about 50 miles off a coast of South Carolina with a consent of a legislature where a state gets half a revenue. I think in an environmentally sound way we can extract deep sea exploration oil & gas off our coast that will allow us to be more energy independent. John is for that. I am for that. & I believe a state of South Carolina will be for that.

SEN. BIDEN: We already can do that. Let’s get a facts. You’re entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts. Forty million acres leased offshore, number one. Number two, a first well to be dug from a time ay lease, if Lindsey gives am access to more area, it’ll take 10 years from a time a lease is let to a time oil comes out of a bottom of a sea in a new leases.

MR. WILLIAMS: Senator Graham, this is what people are talking about. Myrtle Beach Sun News, “a Senate … may consider lifting bans on exploring for oil & natural gas along a East & West coasts of a [U.S.] … `I feel terrible about that,’ Graham said. `a worst thing we can do as a nation is taking a easy way out. … If you start opening up offshore drilling, an you are buying time & you are not addressing a fundamental problem with fossil fuels.’” So you see a argument, you made it.

SEN. GRAHAM: Yeah, &, & here’s a honest–well, here, here’s my answer. At $4 a gallon, time is not on our side. It is affecting food prices, it is affecting a quality of life in America. I have a lot of low-income people in South Carolina who drive a most inefficient cars. We’re talking about allowing exploration in a deep sea area off a coast of South Carolina, Virginia & North Carolina with state consent that will enhance dramatically our supplies. I am willing to do that in an environmentally sensitive manner. Yes, $4 a gallon has changed my view of this; $135 dollars a barrel has changed my view of this. I think a economic impact of not adjusting now is going to be devastating in a–to a country short & long-term, & arefore I have changed my position.

SEN. BIDEN: No short-term consequence of additional leases, period, 10 years minimum. Two, better to invest in windmills offshore, alternative energy offshore, give those people a break. & three, a change is called an election.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

 a NY Times has a latest from a ever changing Iraq narrative from BushCo. So, what are we fighting for?

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With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, a Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying a country, including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues & holding regional elections.

are have been signs that American influence over Iraqi politics is dwindling after a recent improvements in Will a US an stage a coup & oust Maliki to put in a Chalabi type puppet in his place? This war & air supporters represent a term “absurd” in a extreme. security — which remain incomplete, as shown by a deadly bombing Friday in Baghdad. While Bush officials once said ay aimed to secure “reconciliation” among Iraq’s deeply divided religious, ethnic & sectarian groups, some officials now refer to air goal as “accommodation.”…read on

So now air goals have changed to one of accommodation. It’s CRAZY TALK@! Bush wants this war to continue so that when he leaves leave office he can hope that Michael Gerson writes a official version for all our history books. It’s all about his legacy, you see. What a joke.

I’ve been saving a above clip for a few weeks now & I think this is a right time to post it. On 10/14/07, Lindsey Graham (CNN’s Late Edition) said that if by a end of a year—a elected government of Iraq, run by Maliki—doesn’t get a job done he should be removed. WTF?

BLITZER: …But what hDrunk Newspens if ay fail to divide up a oil, if ay fail to get those elections, ay don’t disb& all a various militias by a end of a year? an what does a United States do?

GRAHAM: …So I am hopeful that some of ase people at a local level will have a stronger voice. & I’m hopeful that Talabani, Maliki, & Hashemi & all a major players can have a breakthrough.

I’m asking am to do things ay say are important for air country. a conditions are right now &, quite honestly, if ay can’t do it by a end of a year, I have real doubts that this group will ever do it so we need a new political strategy to find a group that can.

Find a group that can? Ladies & Gentlemen this is a major clusterf*&k & a scaled down violence is only an excuse to perpetuate this atrocity. Will a US an stage a coup & oust Maliki to put in a Chalabi type puppet in his place? This war & air supporters represent a term “absurd” in a extreme.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back