Passing Exchange Becomes Political Flashpoint

[cal04]

A passing exchange during a Senate hearing on Thursday turned into a political flashpoint overnight as Senator Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused one another of insensitivity in comments about motherhood and the war in Iraq.

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In an interview on Friday, Senator Boxer said her comments had been misunderstood and were now being turned against her by the White House and by Republicans. “What I was trying to do in this exchange was to find common ground with Condi Rice,” she said. “My whole point was to focus on the military families who pay the price.”

Senator Boxer added: “I’m saying, she’s like me, we do not have families who are in the military. What they are doing is a really tortured way to attack a United States senator who voted against the war.”

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Some Democratic Senate staffers said Senator Boxer’s exchange with Ms. Rice allowed the Bush administration to turn the tables on Iraq critics and sidestep the larger issue of the almost uniform opposition to the president’s plan to send 20,000 more American soldiers to Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/world/americas/13rice.html?hp&ex=1168664400&en=27db0932bb939cc6&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Mountain out of a molehill

and the fact that this is the only thing the republics could latch onto to distract and distort shows how meager and bereft their arsonal is at this time.

[Atman]

6. It's all they've got. Get used to it. They'll be a lot more.

"Cornered Rat Syndrome."

Hey, same initials as "Condi Rice Shithead!"

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Standard Operating Procedure for the Repugs

[illinoisprogressive]

3. Wingers trying to find something to whine about the mean dems.

[EFerrari]

9. So are we mean or are we wimps?

So hard to keep track.

:rofl:

[Bluestar]

4. Always a diversion

That's how they do it--divert the public's attention from the real issue and say that Dems are big nasty mean people. Unbelievable! Condi isn't fit to carry Barbara Boxer's briefcase.

[Change has come]

8. It sucks for them

that the public is waking up. It's kinda funny. Just a few months ago the Dems were wimpy defeat-o-crats who couldn't be mean enough.

:dem:

[MichiganVote]

5. She should just shut up about it or the news will make a big deal of nothing

[DURHAM D]

7. Karl, the Repugs, the noise machine, the NY Times don't get it.

This no longer works. The right wing blogs and yap heads are just talking to each other. They have no mainstream audience left. Blah, Blah, Blah is what the vast majority of citizens hear when the righties are talking about the war in Iraq.

The Democratic Senate staffers who provided fuel for this fire need to be fired - they are clearly not in touch with the vast majority of American citizens. On the other hand, the staffers are probably on Senator Joe's staff so they are not really Dems?

[EC]

10. Sure shows the Republicans are still trying to hide the human loss

of the war...