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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (18409)	4/27/2004 11:49:42 AM
From: redfish	Respond to of 81568

NEW YORK – In a surprise move, Tick-Tock magazine today awarded its Adolescent of the Year citation to U.S. President George W. Bush. For each of the past 71 years, Tick-Tock has named a teen-ager who, for better or worse, drew the most public attention in the preceding year. Its first winner was Humley Torfelsen, a Chicago boy who in 1932 ate 143 pairs of aromatic argyle socks after his mother told him to clean his room. Tick-Tock cited Mr. Bush’s frequent displays of prideful ignorance and mocking swagger as key points in his selection. It also gave heavy weight to his pre-emptive war with Iraq, “undertaken to show Daddy who was the better man.” Tick-Tock also noted Mr. Bush’s habit of donning cowboy clothes and pilot suits in order to “preen before the ladies.” At 57, Mr. Bush is the oldest Tick-Tock adolescent award winner on record. The second oldest was Ulysses M. Forkbender, who released thousands of self-replicating mechanical fire ants in downtown Tulsa in 1973, when he was 19. Mr. Bush is the first U.S. president to be named Adolescent of the Year. “It’s quite. . . . It’s. . . . Our position is it’s an honorable. We also think it’s good. Just like freedom and tax relief and childs not left behind,” Mr. Bush said. “We’re for it.” newdorktimes.com