Posted on 07/12/2005 4:28:09 AM PDT by yoe
Republicans took aim at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday for a speech 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," said 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 nonpartisan think tank.
The former first lady drew a laugh when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catch phrase: "What, me worry?"
It wasn't the first time that Clinton had likened Bush to the Mad kid. In April, she told New York Daily News reporters and editors, "We're in a very dangerous fiscal situation, and this administration is Alfred E. Neuman — 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."
While polls show her 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.
The anti-freedom, rapist enabler speaks.
Hillary Clinton is disgusting.
I wonder how long it took them to come up with that one. Pfft.
"Mrs. Clinton seems focused on taking partisan jabs and promoting her presidential campaign," said New York's GOP chairman
Well duh! She's Hillary Clinton.
Actually, by taking less CAPITAL from our nation's entrepreneurs, employers, and investors, he created more hiring, more jobs, and more opportunity for America's POOR. The economic statistics all say that's what he did.
Everything you wrote is correct....now see if you can get the MSM to print it...chances are?
Yes she is but a nationwide poll of democrats shows that she is the front-runner for democ pres candidate in 2008? Sort of tells you what the democrats are, doesn't it? Disgusting!!!!
She's a WINO.....Wife in Name Only.
Leni
After all, her political future was more important than her self-respect and the safety of 280 million Americans.
Any decent wife would have left the bum.
I keep thinking that at some point, somewhere, some liberal's sense of shame will kick in to keep him/her from spouting this garbage, but it never does.
I haven't got time to fire up Paintshop and do a morph, but I suspect it would be easier to morph Hitlary into Alfred E. Newman than it would to morph President Bush.
Since then, MAD magazine has gone totally PC. No thinking required or necessary in the MAD magazine of the past 10 years (10 years ago I bought one then too, threw it away).
No small wonder why Hillary would invoke MAD MAGAZINE. This must be part of her MAD "youth outreach" agenda.
That's a marriage of convenience to say the least.
This is both disgusting and laughable.
Disgusting because it's always disgusting whenever The Beast opens her mouth for any reason. I swear that woman just makes my skin crawl.
Laughable because she slithering around out there attacking Bush for everything but the hurricanes in hopes of becoming president (barf!!). But the only problem is that this snake will not be running against Bush or Cheney in 2008 so this constant whining and negativity she is spewing is nothing more than whining and negativity.
Anti-freedom, anti-life.
disgusting! DITTO
I would think it would be more effective for the GOP members to get interviews on the subject and give a knowing smile while comparing the classy courtesy of the Prez to the childish rhetoric of this Presidential wannabe. Look directly at the camera and ask the public if they want this kind of boor in the White House.
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