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Passing Exchange Becomes Political Flashpoint
The New York Times ^ | 1/13/2006 | HELENE COOPER and THOM SHANKER

Posted on 01/12/2007 8:02:03 PM PST by Utah Girl

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And now Barbara Boxer is playing the victim card.
1 posted on 01/12/2007 8:02:05 PM PST by Utah Girl
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In an interview on Friday, Senator Boxer said her comments had been misunderstood

No good, Babs, we all heard your remarks. You cannot put enough lipstick on that pig to turn it into a thing of beauty. The botched joke defense has been tried and it failed. Telling us we're too stupid to understand your nuance is also a non-starter.

2 posted on 01/12/2007 8:06:22 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Pelosi, the call was for Comity, not Comedy. But thanks for the laughs. StarKisses, NVA.)
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It's sort of turning out that all professional women are all victims all the time.


3 posted on 01/12/2007 8:08:33 PM PST by donna
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Boxer may as well have said that, because Rice is black, she shouldn't be the Secretary of State of a nation comprised of 85% white people.


4 posted on 01/12/2007 8:08:58 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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And notice that the NYT does NOT give the Boxer quote so we can all judge whether the remarks were subject to misunderstanding or if they were as crude and hateful as they sounded plopping from Boxer's lips. More cover from the MSM for their patrons.


5 posted on 01/12/2007 8:10:04 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Pelosi, the call was for Comity, not Comedy. But thanks for the laughs. StarKisses, NVA.)
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Just another liberal coward who will not stand up and say:

"Yes, I said that and I meant it".

6 posted on 01/12/2007 8:12:48 PM PST by technomage (You get what you want one step at a time)
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Stupid is as stupid does, and Babs, you are now the official leader in the US Senate for the 2007 Dumb as Dirt Award.Congrats
7 posted on 01/12/2007 8:13:59 PM PST by neverhillorat (IF THE RATS WIN, WE ALL LOSE)
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Senator Boxer saying that she is like Secretary Rice shows just how far out of touch she really is.


8 posted on 01/12/2007 8:15:28 PM PST by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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Barbara Boxer and 'common ground' with a Republican????

I've seen it all now.


9 posted on 01/12/2007 8:17:00 PM PST by abner (I have no tagline, therefore no identity.)
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OK, I see the quote is split by more explanation and the sequence does not quite follow the original NYP story. The full speech without interruprions has a much greater impact. Never the less, if that is how Boxer finds common ground, I'd hate to hear her trying to find separate ground.


10 posted on 01/12/2007 8:18:12 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Pelosi, the call was for Comity, not Comedy. But thanks for the laughs. StarKisses, NVA.)
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Passing exchange, huh? It was a thoroughly planned partisan attack, over the top even by Boxer standards. She finally got some flak back, and suddenly she's a victim.

Typical.

Being a liberal means you never own your own behavior.


11 posted on 01/12/2007 8:18:34 PM PST by ArmstedFragg
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A "Passing Exchange" ???? Holy DOWNPLAY BatMan! It was a friggen Senate Hearing ~! A passing exchange takes place in the mall.


12 posted on 01/12/2007 8:18:55 PM PST by Army MP Retired (There Will Be Many False Prophets)
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I saw the whole thing. It was at the end of an emotional harangue a desperate housewife would be proud of.
13 posted on 01/12/2007 8:20:25 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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I notice that all the Senator's apologists on TV want to move the discussion away from the insult and onto the "bigger point," being, that someone who has children in Iraq is likely to veiw the war there differently (implied, more correctly) than someone who does not. I wonder if these people ever stopped to consider that those who do not have children in Iraq are more likely to make a logical judgment about it. That's the reason why we don't allow the victim's family members serve on a jury.


14 posted on 01/12/2007 8:21:49 PM PST by Lucas McCain (The day may come when the courage of men will fail...but not this day.)
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“I’m saying, she’s like me,"

Now she's getting serious with the insults.


15 posted on 01/12/2007 8:23:46 PM PST by chopperman
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In an interview on Friday, Senator Boxer said her comments had been misunderstood

Well Senator, if you cannot express yourself clearly, perhaps you should find another line of work.

16 posted on 01/12/2007 8:24:16 PM PST by Godzilla (When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.)
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A passing exchange!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was a well thought out attack on Dr. Rice.

The left fears her. They want to be sure she is never going to be a threat to her heinous.

They set out to destroy Dan Quayle, Dick Cheney, and now Dr. Rice.

They want no competition.

17 posted on 01/12/2007 8:32:00 PM PST by OldFriend (THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
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Common ground??????????????????

These two women have led polar opposite lives.

Dr. Rice, the great achiever, learned, articulate, and a contributing member of society.

What has Ms. Boxer ever done, other than make a jackass of herself every time she opens her vicious mouth.

18 posted on 01/12/2007 8:33:54 PM PST by OldFriend (THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
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You got that right. 100%.


19 posted on 01/12/2007 8:36:33 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Utah Girl

Lighten up on poor ole Babs-it was probably just a botched joke!


20 posted on 01/12/2007 8:40:08 PM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
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