Sen. Boxer's Shame

Today, it is reported that Sen. Boxer (D-Cal) took a seriously low blow at Sec. of State Condi 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." "

Well, Senator Boxer, there are alot of people in the USA who are like Rice and do not have children. Some people cannot have children due to medical reasons. Some people do not have children because they have decided to live a gay lifestyle without kids. Some people stay single and childless while they dedicate their lives to their jobs (like Catholic priests). Do they not have the right to have a say in the War on Terror in Iraq? According to Sen. Boxer, if you do not have a direct familial stake in the military, then you just have to shut up about it.

My question is "would Sen. Boxer have said these words to Janet Reno?" Reno, like Rice, dedicated her life to her work and did not have children. I'm not clear whether or not it came out that Reno was gay, but there was a lot of speculation. I'm sure that speculation surrounds Rice as well, and quite frankly, I couldn't care less about it. The fact remains that both women have no children of their own.

Can you imagine the press pirahnas that would have appeared if a Republican senator had said to Janet Reno, "How can you claim to care about Elian Gonzales when you have no children of your own to compare him to? How can you know what his mother went through for the love of her child when you have no personal experience to draw on?" Oh, the rancor that would have been on the front pages.

And that just leads me to believe that Sen. Boxer has a formerly disguised prejudice against women without children for any reason. In her ecstatic questioning of Rice after her party's win in November, she let her true feelings about women without children be known. To her, they have no say. The libs only THOUGHT she was the women's and gay rights senator.

She owes Sec. of State Rice an apology. I don't care how Boxer predicated the statement with her own words about her children being too old and what not. She let her prejudice slip and her insensitivity is not lost nor appreciated on my ears.

Boxer's Low Blow: http://www.nypost.com/seven/01122007/postopinion/editorials/
boxers_low_blow_editorials_.htm?page=0