International Relations and the Single Girl

Ok, so Jess beat me to blogging about the “office wife” comment, but I found the following quote in that column more appalling:

At last night’s dinner hosted by Prime Minister John Howard in Sydney, the president posed with Rice and told photographers, “She can be my date.”

Someone at that dinner should have slapped him. This isn’t a woman weeping at the singles’ table at a wedding, or dateless at the prom. She’s the secretary of state.