I wrote on Sunday about another of the lies Sen. Lindsey Graham told America during his “This Week” appearance on ABC.

Sen. Graham’s bit was ostensibly to talk up John McCain but in reality he ended up mostly muddying waters and blurring lines. In the process, he told the whopper I noted last Sunday about McCain’s campaign not being full of lobbyists when the fact is not only are there lobbyists working at the highest levels of Camp McCain but they even do their lobbying from the back of his Straight(ish) Talk Express and are clearly influencing his policy statements, both foreign and domestic.

But enough about the Mac team’s attempts at smoke and mirrors on lobbyists.

Sen. Graham, of course, lied about other stuff too. To wit, on the heels of the discussion of McCain’s cozy association with lobbyists came this whiney subject-changer in the form of a weak try at guilt-by-association:

“John McCain didn’t borrow money from a guy going to jail to build his house.”

- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) discussing Barack Obama on Sunday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulous.”

Neither did any other presidential candidate, including front-runner Barack Obama.

Eric Zorn of the Tribune describes 8 basic points as he tries to set Sen. Graham, and the record, straight on Rezko. In short:

1.  The deal could have gone down without Rezko.  …

2. The Obamas did not get a special discount on the  house. …the sellers have confirmed that the sale price was the result of routine real estate negotiations and was the best offer they received on the house.

3. The sellers rejected two lower bids from the Obamas. …

4.   The Rezkos did not pay an inflated price for the vacant lot. …

5.  The Obamas did not get a special discount from the Rezkos when they later purchased a one-sixth strip of the vacant lot to enlarge their  yard. …

6. The Obamas did not receive or borrow any money from the Rezkos to buy their house. …

7.  Obama hasn’t done any political or personal favors for Rezko  since this saga began. …

8. The reason Obama is nevertheless correct in describing his actions here as “boneheaded” is that Rezko is and was a sleazeball.

ArchPundit has a ton more details in his series on Tony Rezko for anyone who’s actually interested in the truth.

If all the Republicans have on Sen. Obama are lies (which would fit an emerging pattern of other lies)… what does that mean for the McCain campaign?