"Who pays the price?" Boxer (D-Calif.) asked Rice, who is unmarried and has no children. "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 immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families."
Rice Criticizes Sen. Boxer's Comment on War
Associated Press
Saturday, January 13, 2007; A15
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday criticized Sen. Barbara Boxer's suggestion that, because she does not have family in harm's way, she will pay no "personal price" in the Iraq war.
"In retrospect, gee, I thought single women had come further than that, that the only question is, 'Are you making good decisions because you have kids?' " Rice said on Fox News.
Boxer's comment came during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Thursday, in which Rice was grilled on President Bush's new war strategy in Iraq.
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That's the ticket right there! I am so over people picking that little bit out of that whole rigorous session that Condoleezza endured. Barbara Boxer first acknowledged, herself, that she had no skin in the game regarding having family members eligible to get killed in Iraq. Sadly, Condoleezza doesn't even have parents let alone offspring. I don't see where what Boxer said was wrong. If you believe that being single and childless is some kind of defect then, yes, I guess calling it out is an insult. But that is perception - not reality.
I will say in a quick minute that I don't have anybody to lose in this because I do not have children. I know my niece won't be joining the service for other reasons. Why not all of this whoopla when Laura Bush said that Condi probably wouldn't want to run because she is single and implied that because of that she didn't have a support system?