When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
@Philip_Sarnecki Tell us about how you treated your employees at your Fort Scott oil change shop. I’m sure folks would like to know your thought process when you terminated two employees while they were at the hospital tending to their wife and mother who had suffered a stroke.
@RogerMarshallMD You obviously know that Obama tightened gain of function rules essentially eliminating the testing at every level. In trumps first term he rolled back the Obama rules prior to the pandemic. Biden then retightened the rules after trump.
@YaldaAnsari@LindseyGrahamSC@zarifi_saeid@POTUS If they are ever to be free from their government, it is up to the people to find a way. The US can’t do it for them. We freed Afghanistan and the people didn’t have the courage to hold it when we left.
@RogerMarshallMD We support it in a reasonable form, what you want is not reasonable. If my grandsons can be automatically registered for the draft on their 18th birthday, they should be automatically registered to vote. We have the technology to do this without putting a burden on women.
This explanation of the 'greenhouse effect' in 1985 by Dr. Carl Sagan remains a landmark of science communication for its clarity and planetary perspective.