What bugs me the most about Hillary Clinton saying "I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Newman is in charge in Washington."

It's so damned unoriginal. It's one of the oldest Bush-is-dumb jokes. That it got a laugh from her audience shows they're either:

starved for any morsel of humor

fawning

polite enough to laugh when the speaker says something in the form of a joke

so desperately anguished that Bush is President that just about anything can set them off.

Where was this audience? -- you may wonder. It was at something called the Aspen Ideas Festival. I don't know if the Aspen Ideas Festival has thought of using an acronym, but let me suggest: As-IF.

(And somebody tell Newsday that it's Alfred E. Neuman not Alfred E. Newman. Best not to misspell things, especially in headlines, when someone else is being called stupid.)