South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is known as McCain’s closest confidant in the Senate, and he was rewarded with one of the final prime-time speaking positions before McCain’s own address.
His message was all about the troop surge in Iraq, which he had advocated along with McCain before President Bush decided to try it. And his words about Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s rejection of the surge were among the toughest of the whole convention.
“I’m not saying Barack Obama doesn’t care,” Graham said, turning the tables on one of the candidate’s own often-repeated phrases. “I’m saying he doesn’t get it.”
