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The Leader of the Last Remaining Superpower Asserts Minimal Qualifications

To those who say he cannot do it, Who claim his head is filled with suet, He says that he is plenty able To deal with issues on the table. Though he may have no depths to plumb, He says for sure he isn't dumb. It's almost more than we could hope: The President is not a dope.

Calvin Trillin

July 27, 2001

To those who say he cannot do it, Who claim his head is filled with suet, He says that he is plenty able To deal with issues on the table. Though he may have no depths to plumb, He says for sure he isn’t dumb. It’s almost more than we could hope: The President is not a dope.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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