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Top McCain Aide Says That Another Terrorist Attack on the US Would Be to McCain’s Advantage in the Election

What a way to energize your base.

Calvin Trillin

July 1, 2008

The terrorists finally attain Their goal when they hijack a plane And crash in some blocks that contain A multitude. Many are slain. The traumatized folks who remain Hear singing, which they can’t explain. It comes, they at last ascertain, From offices let to McCain, The headquarters for his campaign. At last the refrain becomes plain: “The Night They Invented Champagne”

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


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