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Mitt Doesn’t Think That Nearly Half the People In This Country Are Moochers After All

Calvin Trillin

October 11, 2012

After weeks of acknowledging only that his “47 percent” remarks were “not elegantly stated,” Mitt Romney now says that they were “just completely wrong.”         —News reports

  He was, he says, completely wrong; To care for everyone is vital. He’s singing now a different song, And “Etch A Sketch” is that song’s title.

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


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