Posted on 06/23/2009 5:44:57 AM PDT by bestintxas
To object to being called sir or ma'am by anyone, especially a member of the military and especially a high ranking member of the military is to betray an ignorance of the military and a tone deafness to civility that is appalling in anyone, especially a member of the United States Senate .
Second, and both more revealing and more instructive, is to understand how inconceivable it would be for a male senator to make such comments. Neither a Democrat nor Republican could imagine a male senator interrupting the testimony of a brigadier general to admonish him publicly, "You know, do me a favor. Could you say 'senator' instead of 'sir?' It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title, so I'd appreciate it."
If a male senator had said that, he would rightly be regarded as insecure, narcissistic, arrogant, and juvenile. Which is precisely why no male senator would ever say such a thing: He would know that he would be the laughingstock of the U.S. Senate.
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Semper Fi,
Kelly
“I didn’t go to Evil Medical School for six years to be called “Mister”, thank you very much.” - Dr. Evil after being called Mr. Evil.
Maybe he should have said “Madam Senatrix.”
Just another liberal/feminist with a “gender inferiority complex”.
Calling her the honorific “Ma’am” was an insult because it highlighted her gender.
“Dunce” is right. Like I said on a previous thread, I would have told her that when she starts acting like a senator, maybe I’ll call her senator. Until then, she’s lucky she got the respect she did from the General...she would have gotten NONE from me!
The General should have responded “In my world, Ma’am is a term of respect. If you’d rather be called ‘Senator’ that’s fine with me, Senator”.
He should have called her “Senaturd.” I wonder if she’d been paying attention.
The angry mob (students, illegals, the lazy and stupid, enviro-whackos, etc) DON’T CARE. Boxer rants against “the system” and gets them freebies.
That is all they care about. They don’t care about her corruption, her stupidity or her disingenuous remarks. She is an elitist billionaire Leftist. And will be elected in CA as long as she wants.
She should be Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World!” but Keith is too much of a sissy creep.
Senator Embarrassment is being kind.
“The General should have responded “In my world, Ma’am is a term of respect. If you’d rather be called ‘Senator’ that’s fine with me, Senator”.”
That would have been so classy! But, she’s probably thinking it has something to do with the Civil War era.
Calling her "Senator Embarrassment" is being kind.
My former brother-in-law was married to the daughter of a New York State Supreme Court Judge. The guy was an insufferable liberal POS that had been appointed to the court by King Mario the Pious.
He bristled at being addressed in any way other than “Judge”.
Naturally, I always addressed him as “Mr.”
... and the horse he rode in on.
He responded perfectly. Anything else and the attention would shift to him and vital defense funds would be funneled away.
That would’ve been fantastic. But she shocked the living crap out of him.
She says, “It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title...”
What she means is she sold her sold her soul to the devil and saying ma’am, reminds her she is a mother...something she despises. Being a mother, to her like Obama, is punishment.
Barbara Boxer’s moment of truth
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3798/is_199910/ai_n8861691/
If my son, a lowly E3 just days out of boot camp, was to meet the President of the United States, he would call him, and is instructed to call him, “Sir”
A friend just after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics boarded a plane for an interview on the East Coast. He signed in as Dr. ..... During the flight there was a medical emergency. He was paged and asked to assist. He had to swallow hard and admit his doctorate was not in medicine. Needless to say, he never did that again. Humility, as they say, is a humbling thing.
Yeah, and I’m wondering how nicely that might fit into Freud’s classic definition of “penis envy”. I’ll have to look it up.
Funny, I have a PhD in economics but have NEVER used Dr. anywhere.
Hey, it coulda been worse.
He coulda thought he was always in court, holding court,
and bristled at being called anything other than “Your Honor”.
Yet I’ve been in court and heard Judges being addressed both ways by lawyers, and seeming to be OK with it.
But yeah, there’s something basically wrong with someone
whose identity is so emotionally tied up with his title to
the exclusion of his basic human identity.
Hey, it coulda been worse.
He coulda thought he was always in court, holding court,
and bristled at being called anything other than “Your Honor”.
Yet I’ve been in court and heard Judges being addressed both ways by lawyers, and seeming to be OK with it.
But yeah, there’s something basically wrong with someone
whose identity is so emotionally tied up with his title to
the exclusion of his basic human identity.
That would probably go right over her head.
If she thinks Ma’am is disrespectful, I would like to introduce her to a bunch of 1950’s Nuns and DI’s that pounded that fact into ‘our minds full of mush’
It’s one thing to use his title in a professional setting. It’s another thing at a backyard barbecue.
It was way too easy to pull his chain. I couldn’t resist the temptation.
I despise pretentious scumbags and go out of my way to sh_t on their egos.
Especially after a beer or two.
I figured it probably would go right over her head.
Then, a couple of days later, it would slowly dawn on her, or someone else would point it out.
And the General would have been screwed.
Hey....give B.B. a break ! All she wants is to be called what she is.....which is Senator. No problem, but she is also a P.O.S., a liar, a cheat, a lame-brained fool, a 1st class Bit.., a loose cannon, a stupid fool, and on and on. So feel free to call this idiot woman anything but Ma’am.
Makes me wish I was a neighbor and sharing a beer or two with you, and helping pull his chain conspiratorially as we figured out new verbal tactics 25 feet from the Weber, and got progressively more sloshed. There are some good judges, though, who couldn’t care less about their rather
dubious ‘titles’. THey’re usually run-of-the-mill local judges handling minor cases, but showing tact and , uh, “judgement”, and even-handedness. Too many of them are basically handmaidens of prosectors. Or handmaidens of agenda-driven defense lawyers. Too few are willing to be independent.
Well, so far despite her record the voters seem to think she’s representing them. It matters little what folks outside of her district think. It certainly casts the people in her district in a poor light.
Dear Senator Boxer,
Just when I thought the situation in Washington D.C.
could not get crazier, I see you on television
admonishing an Army general for not addressing you as
senator, rather than the polite, madam.
Senator Boxer, beside being an embarrassment to your
office and your state, you are petty and rude. I
normally give you some slack because I realize you are
not particularly intelligent, but I do expect a show of
common courtesy when speaking to a senior military
officer. But then, you never disappoint.
Sincerely,
Reply from her office:
Dear Friend:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the recent Senate hearing with Brigadier General Michael Walsh. I appreciate hearing from you on this matter.
Shortly after the hearing, I called General Walsh, and we had a friendly and productive conversation. We expressed our respect for one another and our determination to work together to protect our nation and communities from natural disasters.
Thank you again for writing to me. Please feel free to contact me in the future about this or any other issue of concern to you.
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
..and we had a friendly and productive conversation...
“Once you have them by the ‘gonads’, the hearts and minds soon follow”......
What really bothered me was the “Dear Friend” salutation...grrrr.
Called "Thinking on your feet", which used to be considered commendable.
Also called “Discretion is the better part of valor”.
Also commendable.
“Hopefully we will be able to “knock out” Boxer come 11/2010!”
Only if you can convince everyone in Los Angeles and the bay area that the election is on Wednesday!
And the majority of the Liberal clowns in those cities are too lazy to get off their duffs to vote.
Tis a fine line, is it not? ;-)
‘Tis.
My name ain’t charlie and i’ve probably been involved in California politics lomger than you have been alive.
sooooooooooooooooooo...LOL
Dr. Whitehouse57
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