Where is the apology from Sen. Barbara Boxer to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice? Tony Snow called the senator’s question to Rice a “great leap backward for feminism.” And Tony nailed it. Feminists like Barbara Boxer want it both ways. They want abortion rights, they want women to have access to the workplace, but if the woman takes that freedom, does not marry, does not have children, evidently Boxer thinks that woman is unqualified to use her education, experience and judgment in her career. Now, according to Boxer, that woman has to have children to have her career. Sound confusing? Sure is. It is Boxer logic that only applies to one woman: a single, conservative black woman who happens to be secretary of state.
Boxer wouldn’t say to anybody else, you have to have kids to hold your job. She wouldn’t dream of saying that to a CEO or to a sales manager. But she thinks it’s OK to say it to a secretary of state because this particular woman secretary of state has supported a decision to go to war. Only when it comes to a conservative black woman would Boxer think to ask that question.
That’s John Gibson [1], who has nailed it, at last insofar as he is clearly seeing the double standard being applied, here.
But, Gibson says all he wants is an apology for Rice. That’s a start, but it falls short, in my view; I want Boxer’s resignation. She clearly is unqualfied for the position she holds if she is that disconnected from the people she’s supposed to be representing.
There are those who will suggest that this is a bit over the top. To them, I submit this is no less over the top than leftists cling for the resignation of conservatives convicted of far lesser sins…
Time to pack it in, Barbie.