SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024
When Lindsey still [HEARTed] Joe Biden: We live in somewhat peculiar times—and we don't mean that as a compliment.
Consider the long-forgotten piece of videotape in which Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) waxed about Joe Biden.
The videotape was recorded during a 2015 interview with The Huffington Post. Riding in the back seat of a sedan, Graham is shown saying this:
GRAHAM (2015): The bottom line is, if you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, then it's probably you’ve got a problem. [Chuckles] You need to do some self-evaluation, because what’s not to like?
Here's what I can tell you. That life can change just like that [snapping his fingers]. Don't take it for granted. Don't take relationships for granted.
I called him after Beau died, and he basically said, "Well, Beau was my soul." We talked for a long time. He came to my ceremony and said some of the most incredibly heartfelt things that anybody could ever say to me. And he's the nicest person I think I’ve ever met in politics.
INTERVIEWER: Is that right?
GRAHAM (briefly choking up): He is as good a man as God ever created, and we don't agree on much, but I think he's been dealt a really gut blow. I think he focuses on what he's got to do, not on what he's lost...
He started talking about his grandkids, more worried about them than anything. We just talked about the future.
You can watch the entire tape here. We haven't tried to determine where HuffPo edits may have occurred, but the general gist of the senator's statement was rather hand to miss.
This interview was widely noted at the time. It has almost wholly disappeared over the years. With the recent news of Graham's interview with the grand jury in Georgia, we found ourselves thinking about the interview once again.
This is what Graham was saying about Joe Biden before Donald J. Trump came along with his nicknames, his threats and his condemnations. If you want a friend in Washington, then say you should probably buy a dog—or you should shell out the major big bucks for some "cable news" halfwits like Watters.
We're surprised that that tape has disappeared. It's sitting right there on YouTube.
Somebody could walk into this roomAnd say, "Your life is on fire!"It's all over the evening news."All about the fire in your life on the evening news."
Kevin says:
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ReplyDelete“Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life”
Said Joe Biden in 2019, when Graham suggested that allegations of Biden's corruption in Ukraine need to be investigated.
Perhaps this incident made Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) see the light?
Or, we could remember Graham’s work as Ken Starr’s Wing Man. The Trump era featured Lidsey’s second attempt to overthrow the Government. The Grand Jury that wanted to indict him was probably right.
ReplyDeleteWhat strikes me about Graham is how little we know-bout him, considering how much of the National Air the press lets him suck up. He apparently was largely raised in a dive bar. Let’s hope his prediction about Trump being the end of the Republican Party, or this version of it, pans out.
It's amazing how personal goodness can differ so greatly from Presidential competence. Jimmy Carter was a outstandingly fine human being, but a poor President. Bill Clinton was an immoral human being, but a pretty effective President.
ReplyDeleteImmoral? Judge not, lest ye be judged, David. Look who you voted for.
DeleteLusting over your own 14 year old daughter makes a guy a crappy human being.
Delete@7:10 You have deciphered my hidden message. Namely, Trump could be a good President despite his personal immorality.
DeleteA lot of people who want to fuck their own daughter make good Presidents.
DeleteThat's just science.
Tfrump has already been a bad president. He is getting worse. Don’t vote for him.
DeleteThere are easily accessible rankings of presidents by large panels of historians that can be found on the internet. They do not agree with you. Carter is typically ranked in the mid 20's. Donald Trump typically ranks roughly 20 presidents below him, often in the bottom 3.
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DeleteThat's a fair point, unamused. However, people who are liberal tend to think liberal Presidents did a better job and conservative Presidents did a worse job. Most History Professors are liberals, so they will naturally give worse reviews to conservatives Presidents.
DeleteMost history Professors are against Fascism. That's intolerant of Right-wingers.
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DeleteAs usual, you make statements that reflect your biases with absolutely no corroborating facts. Virtually every event or opinion that does not go your way can be ascribed to liberal bias, in this case the liberal bias of presidential historians, of whose political affiliations you know absolutely nothing. The world according to David is composed of two groups. One who agrees with David. The other group of course can be written off because they have a liberal bias. Your mindset here is lazy, glib and entirely transparent. When well over 100 presidential historians, not all of whom are affiliated with universities, give Reagan a rank of 9 and place Trump 4th from the bottom, your knee jerk response, predictably here, without any expertise to validate your opinion, will be that Reagan should have ranked higher, as well as Trump.
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DeleteThat's right, Unamused, being liberal means never having your own opinion, and not tolerating other's. I knew it.
The American public has for decades been told Carter was a failed president. This narrative is right wing fodder that is accepted on both sides of the isle because of its repetition. Carter lost badly to Reagan largely because of inflation, the price of gas and the failed rescue of the Iran hostages. His administration established the Departments of Energy and Education, he was successful in instituting the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties and the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaties. He embargoed the Soviets for invading Afghanistan. As a senator and governor in Georgia he strongly advocated for the Civil Rights movement. He later won the Nobel Prize for his humanitarian work and with his wife established the Carter Work Project involving over 100,000 volunteers in 14 countries. He was a graduate of the Naval academy, an engineer, who believed in the science of global warming. Historians place him in the mid 20's among presidents for many of the above reasons.
Delete3:09: You knew what? That you come here with nothing of substance? Well played.
DeleteDavid in Cal would like you to know he thinks women should have reproductive freedom.
ReplyDeleteHe's also asking you to kindly pull his other finger.
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