On the Trashing of Sarah Palin

Deadline Poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the December 1, 2008 edition of The Nation.

November 12, 2008

McCain's guys now trash Palin as a dunce
(Implying vetting should have been much stricter).
They may be right, but gracious they are not,
Considering that they're the ones who picked her.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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