Published 10/26/2008
at WSJ.com: Washington Wire
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Cedar Falls, Iowa on the presidential race.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham , a longtime ally of John McCain s, has turned into his attack dog introductory speaker in recent days.
Meanwhile, McCain himself shortened one of his attacks to simply blah blah blah.
The GOP nominee and his pal were out in full force Sunday at a rally with 2,000 people here in northern Iowa. With nine days until voters take to the polls, Graham wasted no time attacking Barack Obama on behalf of McCain. He threw some of his hardest punches to date at the Democratic candidate saying repeatedly that Sen. Obama does not deserve to be commander-in-chief.
Graham reprised his attack on Obama where he uses Joe Biden s comments against him. But this time, he spun Bidens suggestion that Obama would be tested during his first six months in office into an attack on Obamas disapproval of General David Petraeus .
In September last year, remember when Petraeus came to ...
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