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Old 07-26-2010, 10:00 PM
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Senator Barbara Boxer: serving in the military is like being a member of Congress

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At a campaign event over the weekend in Inglewood, California, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer seemingly equated being a politician to serving in the military –- and an Iraq War veteran supporting Boxer’s November opponent is calling on her to apologize.

“We know that if you have veterans in one place where they can befriend each other and talk to each other. You know when you’ve gone through similar things you need to share it. I don’t care whether you are a policeman or a fireman or a veteran or by chance a member of Congress,” the California senator said. “[Democratic Rep.] Maxine [Waters] and I could look at each other and roll our eyes. We know what we are up against. And it is hard for people who are not there to understand the pressure and the great things that go along with it and the tough things that go along with it.”

“Barbara Boxer’s disrespectful comments underscore just how out of touch she has become after her 28 years in Washington,“ Veterans for Carly Coalition Co-Chairman Lt. Commander Paul Chabot said in a press release, in response to Boxer’s comments. “Equating the experiences of members of Congress with those of brave soldiers who have fought to defend our country is just the latest example in a failed career marked by disrespect for our men and women in uniform.”

Chabot added, “Barbara Boxer owes an immediate apology to all members of America’s armed forces.”

Boxer is up for re-election in November, and is facing a tough challenge from Republican Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Some will see nothing wrong with this...
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Good googly mooglies. It's a Dem crack-up.
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Senator Barbara Boxer: serving in the military is like being a member of Congress

Some will see nothing wrong with this...

One group has people trying to kill them on a regular basis with bullets and bombs.
The other group has people that might not vote for them.

Yep, sounds the same to me.
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Some will see nothing wrong with this..
I can see why.
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I can see why.
figures.
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Just goes to show how out of touch with the real world most politicians are. What a dimwit.
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I can see why.
Of course you can.
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figures.
I read the article but nothing jumped out that I would consider insulting to the troops, unless I was thin skinned or trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.

It figures that I wouldn't see what a conservative would see since I can't see much with their glasses on.
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Just goes to show how out of touch with the real world most politicians are. What a dimwit.
Its too bad that the California GOP nominated a bigger dimwit to challenge her.
They had a chance to pick Tom Campbell, a true hard to the core fiscal conservative...and yet they chose a woman that was fired from HP for incompetence.

The GOP blew it big here.
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Its too bad that the California GOP nominated a bigger dimwit to challenge her.
They had a chance to pick Tom Campbell, a true hard to the core fiscal conservative...and yet they chose a woman that was fired from HP for incompetence.

The GOP blew it big here.
That seems to be a problem the GOP has often.
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