<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; "><h2 property="dc:title" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); font-size: 24px; clear: both; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: 17px; ">"An Explanation of Gingrich's Ad Accusing Romney of Being Able to Speak French"</span></h2></span><div>By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Big Mo is what Gingrich is desperate to stop.</span><div>He talks of how Romney will flip and will flop.</div><div>He charges that Romney now goes through contortions</div><div>To hide being someone who funded abortions</div><div>And hide that in business wherever he’d roam</div><div>Some innocent workers would lose hearth and home.</div><div>There’s no way, Newt says, you can call Mitt a mensch.</div><div>But what’s even worse is, the man can speak French. </div><div> </div><div>Yes, being bilingual is really too much.</div><div>It shows you’re elitist and way out of touch.</div><div>Bilingual means speaking one language too many.</div><div>We’ve voted for leaders who hardly speak any.</div><div>Republican voters know one thing. It’s this:</div><div>That ignorance rocks. (It’s sometimes called bliss.)</div><div>So all Romney-huggers should undo their clench.</div><div>Mitt Romney’s a menace: the man can speak French."</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><br><div>Seeya later, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Post Falls, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div></div></body></html>