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

Deadline Poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the July 21, 2008 edition of The Nation.

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"

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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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