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Survivor: Washington

Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have become good friends since taking a leading role in the international tsunami relief effort. But Bush's son, the president of the United States, and Clinton's wife, a U.S. senator from New York and already the presumptive frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, are another matter.

In a speech in Colorado on Sunday, the former first lady compared President George W. Bush to Mad magazine's freckle-faced kid, Alfred E. Neuman, whose signature line is "What, me worry?"

"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington," Sen. Clinton told a conference at the Aspen Institute, which calls itself a nonpartisan think tank.

A Republican National Committee official returned the fire, calling Sen. Clinton "part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party."

We suppose some tension is inevitable when you have the nation's two most prominent political families competing for advantage, not to mention the two most polarizing figures in American politics today, George W. Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the center ring. Politics aside, this has the makings of a terrific television reality show. And when the voting is all over, the survivor could be ... John McCain.

[Last modified July 12, 2005, 01:26:22]