Boxer’s Low Blow With Condi (Video)
Posted on January 12, 2007
In case you haven’t seen it yet…here is a clip of today’s controversy everyone seems to be talking about.
Rice appeared before the Senate in defense of President Bush’s tactical change in Iraq, and quickly encountered Boxer.
“Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price,” Boxer said. “My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young.”
Then, to Rice: “You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family.”
Breathtaking.
Simply breathtaking.
We scarcely know where to begin.
The junior senator from California ap parently believes that an accom plished, seasoned diplomat, a renowned scholar and an adviser to two presidents like Condoleezza Rice is not fully qualified to make policy at the highest levels of the American government because she is a single, childless woman.
It’s hard to imagine the firestorm that similar comments would have ignited, coming from a Republican to a Democrat, or from a man to a woman, in the United States Senate. (Surely the Associated Press would have put the observation a bit higher than the 18th paragraph of a routine dispatch from Washington.)
“I don’t know if she was intentionally that tacky, but I do think it’s outrageous. Here you got a professional woman, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Barbara Boxer is sort of throwing little jabs because Condi doesn’t have children, as if that means that she doesn’t understand the concerns of parents. Great leap backward for feminism,†Snow told FOX News Talk’s Brian and The Judge.
AJ Strata speaks on paying prices:
The common thread here is Boxer and Sadr see no value in the cause of America. Sadr sees body bags, Boxer sees body bags. Sadr sees discarded people, Boxer sees discarded people. Americans see heroes who gave us a precious gift that can never be forgotten or diminished. We understand these people did went into our battle because that was their calling. These were not the victims of a drunk driver, these were not useless deaths. And anyone who implies otherwise is actually the one who has become so deranged they cannot even retain respect for the wishes of the dead, of the message of their life spent for all of us. Boxer is a cold, hate filled person. Her life represents obsession and anger at not being considered as perfect as she sees herself in her own mind. So when faced with conflicts she lashes out. She should never be representing a state like California. The state is liberal, but it is not full of compassionless spite.
Kim Preistap is calling for an apology.
Only a 21st Century so-called liberal would say such a rotten thing to Condi. Only a 21st Century so-called liberal would get away with it, too. I see no hue and cry from the feminists, of course, and not much coverage byn the press, of course. Can you imagine how this would be wall-to-wall covered if a Republican had dared to say such a thing to an unmarried, childless Democrat?
Nice to see this particular corollary to the chickenhawk argument for once being used against someone other than Bush and his daughters, though. I wonder, what implications might it have for those childless supporters of the war in Afghanistan among us, such as Purple Heart awardee Col. Glenn Ellison “Duke†Ellers? The mind reels.
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Barbara Boxer is a merchant of death who looooves partial birth abortion and supports all kinds of abominations against babies in the womb. Since when has Barbara ever cared about parents and children? The gall of this mediocrity.
Here’s my take.
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/asymmetric/2007/01/12/on_barbara_boxer_and_rice
This is typical mean spiritedness from the intolerant left.
Why is it that these women who have built their careers on supporting abortion and feminism now feel that their choice of having families and raising children makes them morally superior to someone who, so far, has chosen a career? Obviously, intellectual honesty and consistency, not to mention plain respect and civility, don’t matter to shrews like Ms. Boxer.
Being willing to go so low to find something to carp about, suggests that there’s no point in trying to reason with them.