The kid qualifies for Hazardous Duty pay.
Posted on 01/13/2007 5:16:34 AM PST by joeclarke
As a disabled American veteran who was medevaced out of Vietnam in 1970 after serving 16 months with the most honorable Marines I have ever met, I would like to publicly thank Senator Barbara Boxer for not "sending" any of her offspring to war, especially the daughter who married, then divorced, one of Hilary Clinton's brothers. I believe Ms. Boxer has one grandchild, so she is not one of the most prolific mothers/grandmothers to ever have walked the earth - just two ahead of Condy Rice. Again, I want to thank her for not sending any Rodham seed to war. The U.S. military forces will also do much better without the enlistment of children parented by newspaper editors, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Hollywood producers, or university professors.
My own mother did not want me to join the Marine Corps in 1967, but since I was not so dominated by my mother, as evidently Barbara Boxer's children are, I proudly sent myself to Vietnam.
Its ironic, how a woman who has not minded to send millions of babies to abortion clinics has so much objection to sending men and women to war. No wonder Democrats have such a mamma-complex, always awaiting orders from their mothers, or wives, or Nancy Pelosi.
Barbara Boxer...Education: BA Brooklyn College, 1962
Codoleeza Rice... Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.
In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
At Stanford, she was a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control from 1981-1986 (currently the Center for International Security And Cooperation), a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula . In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.
Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004
I didn't send my son either. He decided to join on his own.
What smacks of insincerity the most is how the democratic party thinks that those that serve are not honorable and making a sacrifice for freedom but as some type of punishment. Why do the democrats have such a deep resentment of the volunteer military?
One also sees from Pelosi and Boxer that the new propaganda weapon is the children. This change of weapons may mean the "environmental-man is destroying the planet" propaganda may have run its course.
Boxer also complained about all of the money they can't spend. However, I am reading books about Health Care reform. There is a lot more money to be found in reforming Medicare and Medicare to market based systems than we are spending on Iraq. I have followed condi in Stanford alum pubs throughout her career. She is a superstar. Boxer is just an emotional blackmailer.
I'll make the time to say, thank you for your service and, the post.
Ditto that, Buck! Admiration here for all vets, shame for having a senator like Barbara Boxer!
You are correct. Hillary! stated that it was time for a mother to be in the White House, Pelosi was surrounded by children at her swearing in last week, and now Boxer brings up "children". They are all on point. This is the Dem battle cry to get Hillary! elected.
The following are childless women who Boxer forgot to mention.
Baroness White, Former UK Labour Government Minister
Sally Ride, First American Female Astronaut
Judith Resnick, Astronaut
Janet Reno, Former U.S. Attorney-General
Jeanette Rankin, 1st Female US Representative
Florence Nightingale, Nurse
Queen Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii
Joan of Arc, Christian Saint
Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women/ NOW
Emma Goldman, Activist, Feminist
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Maureen Dowd, Columnist
Elizabeth Dole, Reagan's Secretary of Transportation
Charlotte Curtis, First woman on the masthead of The New York Times
Helen Clark, New Zealand Prime Minister
Helen Gurley Brown, Feminist, Editor
Susan B. Anthony, Womans' Suffragist
Rosa Parks,activist.
Someone should explain genetic fallacy to the media, perhaps if they did the logically-challenged that watch TV could understand the lack of reason exhibited by politicians like Pelosi and Boxer.
The genetic fallacy is a logical fallacy based on the irrelevant appraisal of something based on its origin. You are childless ergo you don't understand pain and loss of a child. This leads to only certain people getting the right to talk about certain issues. Hence only Parkinson victims are allowed to talk about possible cures or spouses of victims of 911 can talk about the WTC no matter how outrageous the statement.
I think a great web site would be one where current events are reviewed logically. Full statements in context made by politicians are analyzed and broken down. I think this web site would help expose logical fallacies and teach many the methodology of reasonable thought. Of course this would be useless on the moral relativists and the situational ethical.
The kid qualifies for Hazardous Duty pay.
An 'activist' she wasn't. An anti-American ANARCHIST (and commie) she was. Not exactly a shining example.
And to have her name associated with Condi Rice in any manner or comparison is a disservice to Condi.
"Why do the democrats have such a deep resentment of the volunteer military?"
Perhaps the Dem's prefer Rangel's proposal..the military draft. Those that have elected to serve in the volunteer military are proud to do so..much like my family member.
"One also see from Pelosi and Boxer that the new propaganda weapon is the the children."
Not so long ago, Boxer was appaulding the breaking through of the "marble ceiling". Now she/others is/are pulling the "mommy card".
Ms. Rice has broken many ceilings/barriers through the years.
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