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A Smear-cheer for Michelle Obama

Swiftboating with faint praise.

Calvin Trillin

June 25, 2008

(As performed by the Swiftboat Singers)

Who’s not a retiring, shy Southern belle? Whose Harvard degree is the way you can tell That she’s so elite she once ate a morel? Who doesn’t wear flag pins in either lapel? Michelle. Rah! Rah! Smear! Rah! Rah!

Who might be a part of a terrorist cell? Who might have the powers for casting a spell? Whose fist-knocks may summon the devil from hell? Who could be, we reckon, a Muslim as well? Michelle. Rah! Rah! Smear! Rah! Rah!

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


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