{"id":183226,"date":"2015-01-21T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/21\/the-push-back-against-the-lindsey-graham-presidential-needs-to-get-less-awful\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T16:41:00","slug":"the-push-back-against-the-lindsey-graham-presidential-needs-to-get-less-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/21\/the-push-back-against-the-lindsey-graham-presidential-needs-to-get-less-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"The Push-Back Against the Lindsey Graham Presidential Needs to Get Less Awful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s be clear here:  Senator Lindsey Graham is a blithering idiot, whose only claim to policy expertise is his playing ventriloquist dummy to petulant child Senator John Sidney McCain III’s harebrained “Forever War” foreign policy initiatives.<\/p>\n

This is a guy who has literally been wrong on absolutely every<\/b> foreign policy initiative that he has ever been a part of.<\/p>\n

He makes Richard Bruce Cheney look level headed and competent.<\/p>\n

These are all legitimate reasons for him to be criticized, and ridiculed, for his recent statements about running for President<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is also the issue of his personal affect.<\/p>\n

Specifically, for lack of a better term, he minces almost as much as Michelle Bachmann’s husband Marcus.  (Not that there’s anything wrong with that<\/i>)<\/p>\n

So, over the past few days, we have been bombarded with tasteless cartoons and Photoshop jobs mocking the (never Married, not that there’s anything wrong with that<\/i>) distinguished gentleman from South Carolina.  (I’m talking to you, Howie Klein<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Lindsey Graham sucks, both as a potential candidate, and even more so as a potential President.<\/p>\n

It simply does not matter whatever else he does, or does not suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s be clear here:  Senator Lindsey Graham is a blithering idiot, whose only claim to policy expertise is his playing ventriloquist dummy to petulant child Senator John Sidney McCain III’s harebrained “Forever War” foreign policy initiatives. This is a guy who has literally been wrong on absolutely every foreign policy initiative that he has ever …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1030,977,982,979,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-lgbtq","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}