Lindsay Graham loves being verbally abused by John McCain- Seriously

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Lindsey Graham: McCain's 'little jerk'
By AMIE PARNES | 4/9/08 4:39 AM EST Text Size:



If anyone else called him “little jerk,” Sen. Lindsey Graham might be offended.

But the jab comes from Sen. John McCain, so he wears it like a badge of honor.

“If John’s not belittling you, you’re in trouble,” Graham said. “He calls me lots of other names, too, but they’re not appropriate for the newspaper.”

McCain and Graham aren’t just friends. They’re inseparable, so much so that colleagues, staffers and journalists have begun making cracks about the relationship between the freshman senator from South Carolina and the man who would be president.

Some call Graham a lapdog. Others say he acts as though he’s one of McCain’s legislative aides. One Senate aide, who called Graham and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) “Pips” to McCain’s Gladys Knight, said that Graham “fawns over McCain like there’s no tomorrow.” In the run-up to this week’s hearings for Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, The Washington Post’s Tom Ricks said Graham “sometimes seems like McCain’s ‘Mini-Me.’”

“I think it’s almost a father-son relationship,” said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), a friend of both senators and another member of their Senate clique. “I think Lindsey looks to and relies on him. But I think John draws on Lindsey’s energy and relies on him for a laugh.”


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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9477.html

[NC_Nurse]

1. Sounds like Bush, having belittling nicknames for his "friends".

:puke:

[hisownpetard]

2. Hey, Mr. Graham - running for VP much?

Just keep yucking it up with ol' Yellar Teeth and you might have a shot.

[notadmblnd]

3. Poor Gladys and the Pips.. to compare McCain and Graham to them

I saw them once at the now long gone Premier Center in Michigan and they put on one good show.

Lindsy is more like a love struck teenager when it comes to kissing McCains ass; reminds me of how McCain is with bush.