Look, here's what I want you to say. And don't improvise.
Posted on 06/04/2015 7:41:00 AM PDT by McGruff
Lindsey Graham says Hillary Clinton is avoiding media questions on the campaign trail because she lacks confidence in her own foreign policy record.
“Well, it’s easier to talk to the North Korean guy than it is her,” the Republican senator from South Carolina said in a “Fox & Friends” interview Thursday, an apparent reference to dictator Kim Jong-un.
“I think it’s the lack of confidence in her ability to distinguish herself from Barack Obama,” he added.
Clinton will be speaking on voting rights this afternoon at Texas Southern University, whose press guidance for the speech circulated Wednesday stipulated that there will be “NO opportunities to interview Hillary Clinton; her speech will be her interview.”
The university later re-sent the guidance that read, “There will be wifi [sic] and restrooms available. We look forward to accommodating you.”
Clinton’s “biggest nightmare,” Graham said, is for someone to ask, “‘Hey, do you think the war on terror is going well? Do you agree with Barack Obama’s foreign policy? If you don’t, tell us why.’”
The Democratic candidate took questions from journalists last month in New Hampshire and Iowa after going nearly a month without answering any reporters’ questions.
Graham touted his own foreign policy credentials during the Fox interview, praising Jeb Bush as the current GOP front-runner but saying that he has a stronger message for regaining ground lost to ISIL and countering Iran in the Middle East.
“The Iranians — as we negotiate their nuclear program — have control over Syria, a lot of influence in Baghdad, Lebanon and Yemen,” he said.
Everything President Barack Obama has tried to do in that respect, Graham said, “has blown up in his face.”
“People are very interested in about what I would do, not just how much I think Obama sucks,” Graham said in a later interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “So at the end of the day, if you’re running for president, you need to let go of the idea that everything Obama has done has been wrong, so what are you going to do?” he asked.
Graham reiterated that he would take the fight to ISIL and “pull the caliphate up by its roots” while putting troops in Syria to take out Bashar Assad.
He also dismissed criticism that the country is weary of war after more than a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan. “I think our soldiers are not war-weary,” Graham said. “You may be tired of fighting them, they’re not tired of fighting you.”
Regarding Jeb Bush’s announcement Thursday that he will make public his run for the White House on June 15, Graham said on Fox News that the former Florida governor “has to convince people that one more Bush is not one Bush too many.”
“I like him a lot,” Graham added.
The South Carolina senator also took a shot at colleagues who saw surveillance under the PATRIOT Act as a “privacy issue.” Obama signed into law this week the USA Freedom Act, a diluted version of the 2001 legislation that takes away the National Security Agency’s authority to collect Americans’ phone records.
“But in the effort to make sure we protect our privacy, and this is not a privacy issue as far as I’m concerned, we’ve destroyed the program. So, well done. Anything else you want to tell the terrorists? Do you want to tell them how we do roving wiretaps?” Graham asked. “We’re at war. We’re turning the war into a crime, and I am sick and tired of this.”
CAT FIGHT!!!
Well then twinkie boy, why did you vote to confirm her as Secretary of State?
Putz.
She reminds me of Tokyo Rose.
Kim Jong is better looking and hasn’t killed nearly as many people...
Not much difference, except he's smarter than she is.
And younger.
And has smoother cheeks.
On the face, not on the...well, I wouldn't know about either one them on that and I damned sure don't want to know.
Round little wannabe dictators with delusions of royalty?
IOW, everything you fault her for is only a reflection of your own failures.
Well, I compare Lindsey to Tinkerbell.
Yep. I haven’t forgotten his cheerleading for attacking Libya either.
If I wuz Kimmie I’d be pretty insulted.
If I could go back in time I would feed Daniel Patrick Moynihan amphetamines to keep him going until Hildy would go away.
Someone needs to ask the nancy boy about his boyfriend John Kerry......
Look, here's what I want you to say. And don't improvise.
Putting aside the mess that is Goober Graham, he didn’t come close to comparing Hillary to Kim Jong Un. He made a witty joke and Politico made sure to misrepresent it. Just the media reverting to form and doing its duty to advance the notion that Hillary is above criticism.
So does she.
Do Hillary and Kim use the same tailor?
I hate the Clintons but this was childish.
The Clinton Machine would skin Graham alive if he ever got the nomination.
Fortunately, this isn’t going to happen.
Either Lindsey just says whatever pops into his mind at the moment, or he’s getting desperate for publicity.
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