Republicans Blast Sen. Clinton's Comments

WINS News - AP ^ | 7/11/05 | MARC HUMBERT

[areafiftyone]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Republicans took aim at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday for comparing President Bush to Mad magazine's freckle-faced, "What, me worry?" kid, Alfred E. Neuman.

A Republican National Committee official said the former first lady was "part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party," while a spokesman for one of her potential 2006 Senate rivals said she was guilty of "insulting the president."

"At a time when President Bush and most elected officials are focused on the security of our nation, Mrs. Clinton seems focused on taking partisan jabs and promoting her presidential campaign," added New York's GOP chairman, Stephen Minarik. "Her priorities are clearly out of whack."

Clinton's attack on the president came Sunday during a speech in Colorado.

"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington," Clinton said during the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival, organized by the Aspen Institute, a non-partisan think tank.

The former first lady drew a laugh from the crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catch phrase: "What, me worry?"

As Clinton gears up for a Senate re-election race in New York next year and a possible White House presidential bid in 2008, her attacks on Bush have become sharper.

In her speech Sunday, she accused the president of damaging the economy by overspending while giving tax cuts to the rich, depriving U.S. soldiers of equipment needed to fight the war in Iraq and cutting funds for scientific research.

"Hillary Clinton's opportunistic attempt to market herself as a centrist is like a wolf dressing up in sheep's clothing," said RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt. "Such thinly veiled rhetoric doesn't change the fact she is part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party."

Thomas Basile, a spokesman for potential Senate challenger Edward Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Nixon, said while Clinton was "busy insulting the president across the country, she is failing to produce the homeland security and transportation funding" the state needs.

Clinton has been accusing the Bush administration of providing inadequate funding for New York's security needs.

While national polls show the former first lady to be leading the pack among potential 2008 Democratic presidential contenders, Clinton has said she is too wrapped up in her Senate work and re-election effort to think about that.

[concerned about politics]

LOL!!! RUSH just said "Ok, then. Her husband reminds me of Larry Flint."

[areafiftyone]

YIKES!

[prion]

This from the Dems' supposed political mastermind. Childish insults aimed at the man the majority voted for in the last election seems a poor strategy for someone who can absolutely count on the support of her base, but must convince the rest of the voters that she is sufficiently serious and statesmanlike to lead the nation in time of war. Mad Magazine is hardly presidential reading material.

[EGPWS]

Ah yes, makes me reminiscent of the good ol' days of the '90's when the white House had some respect..../sarcasm

[Carling]

The former first lady drew a laugh from the crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catch phrase: "What, me worry?"

I wonder if she received as big a laugh as she did when she said the Ghandi was running a gas station in St. Louis. The woman has no chance. Kerry looks like a statesman next to her shrieking, bigoted rants.

[Mo1]

FYI

[RazzPutin]

"next time you talk to the people you know/work with, point out the documented facts in my previous post"

Thanks, I will try.
My coworkers are living in a different "reality tunnel." They think they already know the "facts." I am becoming more alienated everyday.

[12chachacha]

"I find this personally ironic, since I really do like look Alfred E. Neuman. It explains my advanced state of singleness."

If you were a female that might be kind of hot!

[Mo1]

Clinton has been accusing the Bush administration of providing inadequate funding for New York's security needs

I'm all for protecting New York

But does the Senator realize that NY is not the ONLY state in this country?

[hardworking]

Why would Bush worry? He's a man of faith

That is the FIRST thing that went through my mind! Interestingly, Hitlery has just betrayed her complete LACK of understanding of how people of faith handle life. She is interpreting the President's sanguinimity (sp?) as weakness. Sure says a lot about her!

[defconw]

Who is Alfred E. Newman?

[hardworking]

Whew! That is one scary photo! May I suggest this onlay of test: "And now, my leetle lovely, tell me again how you are going to screw me...."

[Mo1]

I thinking she is making fun if his looks

[defconw]

I appreciate the picture, but I guess I am not familiar with the character, Hillary not only are you a shrew, you're an old one!

[Lucky2]

Words of wisdom from a woman married to Howdy Doody.

[Txsleuth]

Alright YOUNG LADY!!!

You are gonna make a lot of us freepers MAD, with those kinds of remarks...!!

You don't know who that picture is of? blech!!!

Unfortunately, I DO!!!

[defconw]

Sorry Ma'am I guess I don't know who he is so the cultural reference is lost on me, I am sure you were quite young and it had to be read to you!

[Polyxene]

This is good but where are our Republican Senators and Congressmen on this? Why are they soooo afraid of Hillary?

FBI files???? OR the fact she could kill each of them with her skank-ray vision??!!

[Uncle Hal]

Rush just talked about this. He said that if Bush is Alfred E. Neuman then Bill was Larry Flynt. Rush figured Hillary said did this to satisfy the Howard Dean base of the party. He also mentioned that this shows Hillary is not the smartest person in the world or she would have not said this and you would never hear Bush say anything like this about an opponent ( at least in public).

[concerned about politics]

Words of wisdom from a woman married to Howdy Doody.

LOL!!!