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Gingrich Says Obama Has a Kenyan Anticolonial Worldview, Inherited From His Father (Yes, the Father He Barely Met)

You know better, Newt!

Calvin Trillin

September 30, 2010

Oh, Newt. When you gave Democrats the boot, Folks said that you were so astute. Although attracting disrepute (By skimming just a bit of loot And tasting of forbidden fruit), You weren’t another empty suit. Your antics were perceived as cute. They liked to say, "That Newt’s a hoot." But now, because of your pursuit Of Mitt, the place from which you shoot Is lower than the hip. En route, Your words are child’s play to refute, Since what you say does not compute. You’re sounding like a loony coot. Oh, Newt.

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


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