DUBYA is MAD, MAD like Alfred E Neumann ....

Hillary Clinton dubs Dubya ‘MAD’ character
By Chidanand Rajghatta\TNN



He was born in the 1950s,
has graced magazine covers,
and run for US President with the slogan
“You could do worse,
and always have.’’

No, this isn’t George Bush you are reading about,
but MAD magazine’s fictional mascot
Alfred E Neuman, the freckle-faced,
jugeared, teen with a missing front tooth
and wonky eyebrows.

But according to Clinton, there isn’t much difference between the two.
Attacking Bush and his policies, the former First Lady, New York Senator and putative presidential candidate in 2008 spoke of what has long been a joke in the campus circuit—the likeness between the US President and the Mad mascot.

“I sometimes feel that Alfred E Neuman is in charge in Washington,’’ Clinton said at a meeting in Aspen, Colorado. She then drew a laugh from the crowd when she described Bush’s attitude toward tough issues with Neuman’s catch phrase:

“What, me worry?’’

It is not the first time Bush has been compared to Mad’s gap-toothed mascot. The liberal magazine The Nation put “Bush-Neuman’’ on its cover when Bush was first elected five years ago and was then found on T-shirts. While the image has faded from public consciousness, Hillary’s comparison might again renew interest.

As news of Hillary’s attack spread on Monday,
bloggers were already wondering about the fallout in the American political circuit where name-calling is frowned upon.

But the less inhibited campus circuit was already scouting for comparable quotes between the two.

Among Neuman’s classics is:
“America; first we fight for our freedom,
then we make laws to take it away.’’