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July 23, 2008 US Presidential Campaign: Europe prefers Obama

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who replaced McCain as the ranking Republican on the trip, said, “If the troop surge in Iraq had failed, McCain would be dead as a candidate.” He tells Europeans that McCain’s candidacy will shift ...

July 23, 2008 Dredge Fill Expected To Cut Charleston Port Expansion Costs

“This a common sense decision to utilize existing resources for the benefit of the taxpayer,” said US Senator Lindsey Graham (RS.C.). “It is fitting to take material dredged from the harbor for shipping and use it to benefit trade for ...

July 22, 2008 RE: Lindsey Graham

Candidates' positions on Iraq differ less than you'd think It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall in Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri ... and Lindsey Graham landing in Baghdad /

July 22, 2008 Huffington Comments

Lindsey Graham, Sen. Bryant, not much difference. I am southern born and raised, have traveled the world and now reside and have a business in the south. I am a progressive liberal. As a matter of survival, I deal with, work with and ...

July 22, 2008 David Mixner: Republicans: "On the 12 Days Before The Election."

... he will discover that waterboarding is indeed torture. 12. Senator Lindsey Graham will finally be coerced to get off of Senator McCain's lap to head up "Youth for McCain." Phil Graham will tell him to stop whining. www.davidmixner.com.

July 22, 2008 Republicans: "On the 12 Days Before The Election."

Due to felonious transgressions, Karl Rove will be forced from his post at Fox News and into a cell at Guantanamo Bay, where much to his dismay, he will discover that waterboarding is indeed torture. 12. Senator Lindsey Graham will ...

July 22, 2008 Times edits headline after Lindsey Graham has the vapors....

(Ed. note: This is the original headline in the print edition of today's NY Times. It's been changed in the on-line edition.)

July 22, 2008 Graham Says Romney Is 'Very Much a Contender' for Veep

Mitt Romney (R) is "very much a contender" to be John McCain's running mate, according to close McCain friend Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.). "I think he's very much a contender for the job," Graham tells The Hill's J. Taylor R

July 22, 2008 McCain pal Lindsey Graham about Mitt's chances to be the VP....

Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.), who earlier this year told The Hill that McCain's vice presidential pick should be someone the Arizona senator "feels comfortable with," said Romney fits that description. "I think he's very much a conten

July 22, 2008 naomi wolf, fool and borrower

Which is why I am formally coming out of the closet with my support for Senator Barack Obama. Of all the candidates running now, he is the leader on understanding the threat to the Constitution and actually taking action, ...

July 22, 2008 McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules ...

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and one of Mr. McCain’s closest allies, said it would be incomprehensible to him if the son of a military member born in a military station could not run for president. ...

July 22, 2008 Rebirth of the Southern Democrat

South Carolina's Bob Conley, the Democratic challenger to Lindsey Graham for US Senate, is bringing back the traditional Southern Democrat (aka Ron Paul Democrat). Proving that blind loyalty to party affiliation is worthless, ...

July 22, 2008 Graham: Romney ‘very much a contender’ for veep

Mitt Romney (R) is “very much a contender” to be Sen. John McCain’s running mate, according to one of McCain’s closest allies on Capitol Hill. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.), who earlier this year told The Hill that McCain’s vice ...

July 21, 2008 Torture: The New Comedy Shtick

Via Think Progress: Quoted in a New York Times article today, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) compares Sen. John McCain’s (R-A

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July 21, 2008 Israel will Attack Iran?

Asked by Senator Lindsey Graham if he believed that Iran would consider using nuclear weapons against Israel, he replied: "I don't know that they would do that, Senator. ... And I think that, while they are certainly pressing, ...

July 21, 2008 Back to Iraq

In May, Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggested That Obama Should Visit Iraq:

July 21, 2008 Can ODUMBA win??

Obama may have been goaded into visiting the war zone by taunts from Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain's friend and adviser, that the Democratic candidate had not been to Iraq since January 2006. But once he decided on going to Europe, ...

July 21, 2008 Photo Essay: Obama, Fellow Senators, Visit US Forces in Iraq

Combat Camera: Senator John McCain on Deck, Surveys Iraq Progress (Sen. McCain's 8th Visit) Combat Camera: Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham Visit Iraq Combat Camera: US Congressional Delegation Visits Kirkuk, Iraq (Sen. ...

July 21, 2008 A few Stormy Monday Scoops

GRAHAM PUTS ON TRI-CORNER HAT, FIGHTS LOBSTERBACKS — Sen. Lindsey Graham has picked up the musket ball fumbled by his colleague Sen. Jim DeMint and is now “a key player” in the struggle to get national park status for the Battle of ...

July 21, 2008 Graham, national director tour Hollings Cancer Center

US Sen. Lindsey Graham and National Cancer Institute director Dr. John Niederhuber spent part of Monday morning touring the newly built Hollings Cancer Center at the heart of the Medical University of South Carolina campus. ...

July 21, 2008 Lindsay Graham: I “absolutely” still think invading Iraq was a ...

Lindsey Graham is a very slick and smarmy operator. I wanted to scream at the TV and ask him if that with over 4000 troops killed—thousands with serious injuries and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people dead and still ...

July 21, 2008 Interview With South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham; War of Words ...

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now: A war of words follows Barack Obama to Iraq. As his trip gets a lot of attention, John McCain is determined to keep some of the spotlight, pressing Obama to admit he was wrong on something when ...

July 21, 2008 Obama's Iraq Spotlight

Obama may have been goaded into visiting the war zone by taunts from Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain's friend and adviser, that the Democratic candidate had not been to Iraq since January 2006. But once he decided on going to Europe, ...

July 21, 2008 Who Needs Detention Camps When We Have John McCain?

Today’s New York Times devotes a lengthy piece to John McCain’s evolution as a Senate player. McCain pal Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) was certainly in a chatty mood when he talked to the reporter and offers up several choice quotes. ...

July 21, 2008 McSame’s Economic Policies: That’s Rich

Gramm certainly has the support of McSame’s best boy, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. Lindsey once called Phil: “A legend in terms of fiscal discipline.” A legend also known for engineering the Enron Loophole that has enabled ...

July 21, 2008 The Southern Separatists Love Bob Conley

A group called SLMNews has created a new video highlighting what they see as the “clear differences” between US Senate Democratic candidate Bob Conley and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. Following a compare and contrast of the two men’s ...

July 21, 2008 BACK TO IRAQ

In May, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Suggested That Obama Should Visit Iraq: Graham: "Obama keeps talking about an immediate withdrawal, as soon as he gets to be president. The last time, I understand, he was in Iraq was in 2006. ...

July 21, 2008 Graham, Hollings discuss cancer research

US Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Sen. Ernest Hollings will discuss the issue Monday at the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

July 21, 2008 Graham latest hero of Battle of Camden?

Sen. Lindsey Graham, RS.C., has emerged as a key player in the decades-long effort to get national park status for the Battle of Camden site in Kershaw County. A measure to require the Department of the Interior to conduct a feasibility ...