Boxer’s Actual Comments to Rice
The McLaughlin Group chews over Barbara Boxer's mythical "attack" on Condoleezza Rice in this clip The right has tried to paint the senator's comments as an ad hominem diatribe, but here's what she actually said (h/t: BradBlog).The McLaughlin Group chews over Barbara Boxer’s mythical “attack” on Condoleezza Rice in this clip. The right has tried to paint the senator’s comments as an ad hominem diatribe, but here’s what she actually said:
“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. So who pays the price? The American military and their families. And I just want to bring us back to that fact.”
Watch it (from BradBlog):
(h/t: BradBlog)
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