Video: Boxer gets personal with Condi at Senate hearing; Update: “Great leap backward for feminism,” says Snow

With special notice to William Amos, if you read this, and “Resolute,” if you read this:

Honora is right that this is no big deal. It is exactly what the Democrats always do.

In a philosophy or debate class this is known as “argument from authority”, a form of logical fallacy. They have just adapted it:
argument from authority
arugment from victimhood
argument from social status
argument from gender and sexual preference
we are getting remarkablly close to simply argument from party affiliiation

statemnet X
person Y said X
therefore X must be true QED

Resolute on January 12, 2007 at 6:51 PM

Resolute,

Your insight is quite inspiring and educational.

Thank you for calling this to our attention.

In Boxer’s case, she was rather arrogant to act as an authority berating and condescending to the Secretary of State, a black women, someone the press all but ignored in contrast to how the press is falling all over themselves in raising Nancy “Miss San Francisco Values” Pelosi, the new Speaker of the House, champion of family life, champion of children, woman extraordinaire.

They did this will Hillary Rodham Clinton, raising her onto the pedestal as the smartest woman in the world, totally ignoring the fact that Marilyn Vos Savant holds the world’s record of 228 in the Stanford-Binet test, now retired to the Guinness Book of World Records in 1989 because testing criteria have been changed and thus no one can score above 200 any longer.

Also, in labeling Hillary “Universal Health Care, It takes a village” Clinton as the smartest woman in the world, the likes of Condaleezza Rice, Ph.D., fluent in several languages, including Russian, knowledgeable in world affairs and cultures, Provost at Stanford University, concert classical pianist, etc., etc., etc., with WAY more international and security experience and knowledge than Boxer, Pelosi, and Clinton combined, the press essentially revealed their low level of qualifications required to praise someone they love, and their ignorance of those of the conservative, Republican point of view.

Regarding my comment to both “Resolute,” and William Amos,

Our name, William, means “Resolute Protector, Strong Defender.”

So, when we sign our names “William” we actually also mean the same as the term “Resolute,” and “Resolute” is our brother in the meaning of the name.

William

William2006 on January 12, 2007 at 8:20 PM

Senator Boxer said that neither her nor Ms. Rice had to sacrifice anything for the war because Ms. Boxer’s children are too old and Ms. Rice does not have any children.

And this is somehow warped into an attack on Ms. Rice for not having children? This could only be taken as an insult if you have some preconceived notion that there is something wrong with not having children and thus pointing it out is letting skeletons out of the closet.

Has it ever occurred to you that Ms. Rice remained unfazed not because she is so calm and dignified and above Ms. Boxer but because she did not perceive this as an attack?

JaHerer22 on January 12, 2007 at 12:59 PM

It was clearly an attack on Condaleezza Rice and her integrity by Barbara Boxer who attempted to create a higher position and set the scene before making the attack.

The attack?

Who is Condaleezza Rice to support sending more troops or support funding for war if she has no dog in the fight, no children to be sent into harm’s way, to be capture, to be killed?

Here is what Condaleezza Rice has to lose.

1) President Bush and his cabinet, including Secretary of State Condaleezza Rice, are targets for each and every nut case on planet earth who wish to assassinate them, capture them, torture them, behead them, humiliate them – which is part of what Boxer is attempting to do in public – humiliate Condaleezza Rice, and also talk down to Condaleezza rather than show her the respect Condi is due by her humanity, by her position, by her accomplishments, and by her responsibilities.

2) Everywhere Condaleezza Rice goes on State business, she is a target for aforementioned dangers. The leaders of the countries she visits can betray her, the leaders’ close confidants can betray both her and the leader of that country, and kidnap our Secretary of State and even kill her. Even here in the US she is a target for reprisals.

Those are only two examples of Condaleezza’s personal investment in this concern.

Furthermore, Condaleezza Rice is serving not only George W. Bush, she is serving the people of the United States of America and the high ideals she holds dear.

Barbara Boxer does not hold a candle to Condaleezza Rice and the investment she herself makes, the sacrifices she made throughout her life in order to achieve what she has achieved, or the suffering and hardship that Condi has endured as a child, the loss of her friends, the way her father had to go out and organize her neighbors to protect their neighborhood from racist raiders.

Condi had to overcome the handicap that being black imposed on her and her peers, something Barbara Boxer never had to endure.

Condi is like a race horse who was burdened with an extra handicap, while the likes of Hilary Rodham Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, and others of their ilk, never had to carry, yet she won the race. After the race the jealous horses, like Boxer, complain and try to fit the winning horse with another handicap, ignoring the fact that the winning horse already won with a great handicap, one the others, like Boxer, never had to carry!

Boxer owes both Condaleezza Rice and the US citizens a humble, sincere apology.

Boxer also owes the soldiers an apology, for they are adults who signed up, voluntarily, to serve.

Boxer owes an apology to all the police chiefs throughout the world who have not children but send the police into harm’s way in order to protect and serve.

Boxer also owes and apology to all Chiefs of fire fighters who have not children yet send their charges into harm’s way in order to protect and serve.

Boxer also owes an apology to all the foremen and managers of electric power companies who send their crews out on dangerous jobs in which the crew can be fried to a crisp, and sometimes are fried to a crisp.

Boxer put her foot in her mouth in an obvious attempt to place herself above Condaleezza Rice and to showboat on television and before her peers.

Boxer should hang her head in shame and beg Rice and the public for forgiveness.

What does Condaleezza Rice have to invest into her decisions?

Her own neck, and the welfare of all the soldiers AND the citizens of the United States of America!

William

William2006 on January 12, 2007 at 11:59 PM