You have all heard by now the 'howling' by such astute people as Rush Limbaugh and a few of the right leaning blogs over question's Senator Barbara Boxer posed to Miss Rice concerning who is going to pay for this Iraq war fiasco.
Here is the question that Boxer asked:
"Now, the issue is who pays the price. Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old and my grandchild is too young. You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families."
Ms. Boxer issued a statement to explain:
I spoke the truth at the Committee hearing, which is that neither Secretary Rice nor I have family members that will pay the price for this escalation. My point was to focus attention on our military families who continue to sacrifice because this Administration has not developed a political solution to the situation in Iraq.
The New York Times Article
Of course, the conservative bloggers were all over this story as were the radio and television talk show host.
Here are a few examples courtesy of New York Times
Rush Limbaugh,“Here you have a rich white chick with a huge, big mouth, trying to lynch this — an African-American woman — right before Martin Luther King Day, hitting below the ovaries here.”
Does he not sound as if he is trying to make this issue racial? That pig behind the microphone needs to get educated!
Tony Snow, giving his opinion to Fox News, said,
"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.”
Ms. Boxer was right on the money with her intent! Miss Rice doesn't have any children so there is no way that she can understand what runs through a parents mind when it comes to their kids possibly getting killed for an oil war! Miss Rice's non-children won't risk death to fix this mess that the Idiot in Chief has gotten us into!
Ms. Boxer did have some support from Ezra Klein who said,
Boxer’s comment is fits firmly within the rich history of attacks levied on the Bush administration and Congress for pursuing wars of choice despite lacking personal experience in combat or immediate family members exposed to its ravages. It’s a variant of the “chickenhawk” charge, not chauvinism.
Many of the conservative assholes want Ms. Boxer to issue an apology for the comments that she made.
Ms. boxer should tell these morons what they should go and do with themselves!
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