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Barbara Boxer: Only parents (or just mothers?) can talk about war

• Posted by Beth on January 12th, 2007 filed in Funny, General, Iraq, Moonbats, Politics, Stupid, The War, WTF    

Tags: barbara boxer, condoleezza rice

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.”

Chickenmom!

OK, since I “only” have a eight year-old daughter, I hereby renounce my support for the war in Iraq. After all, I don’t have to pay a personal price. After all, that’s all I have to offer the world–my motherhood status–and parenting is the only thing about which I know anything. But wait ten years, I’m sure when my daughter is 18 I’ll be qualified enough to opine, OK?

So, let’s talk about kid stuff, shall we? Senator Boxer, did you know about the abysmal selection of childrens’ books at Walmart? Really, you should do something about it! You’re a Senator, after all!

And Secretary Rice, well, she just doesn’t understand that fierce parental (maternal!) instinct to protect children, so all the people in the military are of course just cannon fodder to her. You know those people just don’t care like we do. Especially mothers.

:roll:

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.)

Exactly.

Heh.

UPDATE: Darleen flings open the gates of hell. Bravo!

UPDATE 2: Wait, Mrs. Boxer is a grandmother. Shouldn’t she be “at home, baking cookies?” Or knitting her grandchildren some nice new mittens? What’s she doing up there in a man’s job, anyway?

UPDATE 3: Darleen’s fellow Boxer constituent, Caltech Girl, piles on with fury:

No wonder American women are conflicted. We now MUST be superwoman. We can’t be an important part of the political discourse of this country unless we’re wives and mothers, evidently.

I think I’m going to go take my important credentials (my daughter) and go apply for a job in Senator Boxer’s DC office. She could use a defense policy expert, and I’m just the mommy to do it!

UPDATE 4: Why the farkity FARK is Naomi Wolf defending this bullshi’ite on TV (on Fox News)? I respect Wolf, and I’ve read and liked her books. But I STG, this partisan bullshi’ite has to go if she (or any other so-called feminist) expects to retain a shred of credibility. That’s not “feminism,” that’s sheer partisanship disguised as feminism. Typical. What a farking idiot.