Yes, everyone's going nuts because Barbara Boxer questioned how Condoleeza Rice can send soldiers to Iraq when she has no children of her own.
My take? It's a little bit out of line, but not at the level you'd guess from some of the vitriol. Yes, it's sort of silly for politicians to argue about each other's families, and it's sort of un-American to ever tell anyone that they're not allowed to have an opinion about anything. But it's not like Boxer was making some sort of value judgment about Rice not having children. If Rice did have children and they weren't soldiers, she merely would've said "and your children aren't serving."
I'm no Boxer fan for sure, but the vitriol directed at her for this seems misplaced. The failure of the war itself bothers me just a bit more.
The worst comment? Mr. Limbaugh, of course:
“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.”Nice to see Rush suddenly embracing the language of college-based lefty identity politics. "Lynch"? Posted by Stephen Silver at January 12, 2007 09:14 PM