Condi Rice: Boxer v. Bush
When Barbara Boxer said,
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 an immediate family
to Condi Rice, the usual crowd of howler monkeys came out of the woodwork. Indeed, even the White House has come out in her defense.
“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 said.
Condi’s not taking it either:
If Barbara Boxer’s gonna be called on the carpet, then it seems the First Lady’s recent remarks considering the Secretary deserve the same scrutiny and condemnation. Particularly from noted feminist Tony Snow.
Mrs. Bush: I agree. But it isn’t easy to live here. Dr. (Condoleezza) Rice, who I think would be a really good candidate, is not interested. Probably because she is single, her parents are no longer living, she’s an only child. You need a very supportive family and supportive friends to have this job.
I am sure someone will be asking for the Secretary’s reaction to Mrs. Bush’s “little jabs” any day now. I’m sure that Fox and Mr. Limbaugh will have a field day at the First Lady’s expense. And then the monkeys, who have been in dormancy in my intestines, will gnaw their way out of their silken cocoons, spread their wings, and fly out of my ass.
What a transparent and tapioca attempt to change the subject from the very real costs of the war paid by American families, to the tender sensibilities of a woman with so much power, even before she was Secretary of State had an oil tanker named after her.
