Sen. Boxer takes victim role after hearing for Rice
This is something we should have expected. Typical Democratic tactic: who you try and slime a persons integrity, and that person points out that the personal attack wasn't necessary, make yourself look like the one who was personally attacked. This article brought to you by The Washington Times.

Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is the real victim of last week's confirmation hearing for Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, yet continued yesterday to question the national security adviser's honesty. "She turned and attacked me," the California Democrat told CNN's "Late Edition" in describing the confrontation during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

She's talking about this quote below... See if you can make sense of it.

"I personally believe — this is my personal view — that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell this war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth," Mrs. Boxer told Miss Rice

So, according to Boxer, Rice was given an evil propaganda mission which blinded her from the truth. It's a little odd how that wasn't what Rice was told to do at all, but since when has the truth mattered to the liberals?

Miss Rice responded that she "never, ever lost respect for the truth in the service of anything. It is not my nature. It is not my character." "And I would hope that we can have this conversation and discuss what happened before and what went on before and what I said without impugning my credibility or my integrity," Miss Rice said.

And, according to boxer, that was when Rice turned into a vicious madwoman that attacked her personally. Wow, what a terrible thing it was the Miss Rice said. I'd go home and cry about that one. I mean, suggesting the obvious? How low is that?

"She turned and attacked me, I gave Dr. Rice many opportunities to address specific issues. Instead, she said I was impugning her integrity," Mrs. Boxer said.

Which Boxer obviously was. Without any evidence, Boxer just spurted out her biased opinion on Rice's personality and motivation. Then Rice had the gall to accuse of doing just that. What Rice didn't point out was that Boxer didn't really care (now THIS is a personal attack) whether Rice was good for the job or not. She just cares about halting every little thing that President Bush tries to do, up to and including breathing.

"When you really don't know what to say about a specific, you just attack the person who is asking the questions," Mrs. Boxer told CNN.

Let's look at those quotes again.

"I personally believe — this is my personal view — that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell this war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth," Mrs. Boxer told Miss Rice

Miss Rice responded that she "never, ever lost respect for the truth in the service of anything. It is not my nature. It is not my character." "And I would hope that we can have this conversation and discuss what happened before and what went on before and what I said without impugning my credibility or my integrity," Miss Rice said.

So, who is doing the attacking here?

- posted by Jay Gatsby @ | | 2:35 PM