Posted on 01/31/2006 8:05:24 AM PST by wagglebee
This is pretty shallow, Hellery. But I'm so happy you have such a tin ear for politics!
She is "exploiting the attacks for political purposes", and I call "the move "despicable."
She is the former First Lady. That is why she gets perks. There are only 43 of them.
I do hope Rove has researched and has his preemptives ready to fire.
"How about telling Mr. Rumsfeld to leave the memories of Sept. 11 victims to the families?" said Monica Gabrielle, who lost her husband in the World Trade Center. "
I have a question for Ms. Gabrielle: Was what happened on 9-11 an attack on the families of the people injured and killed, or was it an attack on this nation?
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A group of widows of September 11 victims slammed President George W. Bush’s record against terrorism, accusing the US leader of making the United States less safe and of bringing terrorism to Iraq.
“He has made us less secure,” said Monica Gabrielle, a member of the widows’ group, which is supporting Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry in the November 2 election.
She was a Kerry supporter. Quelle suprise.
The voice-over is Monica Gabrielle's, a 9-11 widow and leader. "My husband died in tower two and the people who killed him have not heard from us three years later. The president will not even talk about these murderers. Sometimes he claims his administration has captured two-thirds of Al Qaeda's lesser leaders; sometimes, three-quarters. The 9-11 Commission says one-quarter. Terrorists killed more people—625—in 2003 than in any year other than 2001. They wounded more than ever—3,646 people. Even the president concedes that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the attack that changed my life forever. Why have we expended hundreds of times the resources and troops in Iraq than we have in pursuit of the mass murderers who vow to hit us again? Anybody could accept a good-faith effort that failed. But we cannot accept a so-called war on terror that has never aggressively targeted the number one terrorists."
Wow. Where do you start?
I'm sure President Bush is gonna call on Mrs. Bill Clinton to introduce her guest. /sarc
There's a really easy response to this ... President and Mrs. Bush should invite Debra Burlingame and Lisa Beemer to sit up in the gallery in the First Lady's section. Bush should then publically recognize them for their efforts (Burlingame, iirc, has been in those ads supporting the Patriot Act) and as a reminder that we can't forget 9-11.
What Bush was doing during the attacks is irrevelant and shows how stupid this person is. It's what Bush did after the attacks that is a testament to his strength, courage, character and leadership and is what separates men (Bush) from boys (Clinton).
Yes on Debra. Lisa went t the dark side on something about money.
Has anyone ever asked Gabrielle what SHE was doing a few minutes before the planes crashed into the Towers?
Brill to NewsMax: Notes Prove Hillary Made Up 9/11 Role
Carl Limbacher
Monday, April 28, 2003
Author Steven Brill says New York Sen. Hillary Clinton made up stories of meetings with 9/11 victim families -- meetings that never took place -- and a furious Brill is demanding that Hillary release him from a confidentiality agreement so he can make public records of their private conversations that will corroborate his claim.
In an exclusive interview with NewsMax.com this weekend, Brill bristled at statements made by Hillary Clinton's office challenging his bombshell allegations, charges he made after the release of his new book, "After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era."
Brill said he can prove his bombshell account of Sen. Clinton's attempts to take credit for 9/11 service that she doesn't deserve.
"If Hillary Clinton will simply release me from my pledge to keep those conversations off-the-record, I will be delighted to tell everybody in chapter and verse exactly what she said to me," the journalist and one-time Clinton defender said.
On Thursday Sen. Clinton's office attacked Brill, with spokesman Phillipe Reines telling Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, "Brill's accusations are completely false and an obvious last ditch effort to jump-start anemic book sales."
"It's hard to understand why Mr. Brill would choose to exploit such a horrible tragedy in this manner," Reines added.
But Brill told NewsMax that he has "contemporaneous notes" of an hour-long conversation with Clinton, conducted at Ground Zero on the first anniversary of the attacks, that will clearly show who is telling the truth.
Hillary 'Denigrated' Schumer
Brill insisted to NewsMax: "Anyone who wants to look at those notes or who wants to even hear what I told people who I was talking to in my office after I came back from my conversation with Hillary - that off-the-record conversation - it will be plain as day that she went out of her way to denigrate Chuck Schumer so that he wouldn't come off in my book as the person who was responsible for helping New York City."
The Brill-Hill brouhaha started a week ago Sunday, when the founder of "Court TV" and "American Lawyer" magazine told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg that Clinton had attacked Sen. Charles Schumer in off-the-record remarks designed to downplay his role in serving 9/11 families.
The author said that when word got out that Schumer would play a major role in his book, Sen. Clinton's office contacted him and said, "What about Hillary?"
But according to 9/11 families interviewed by Brill, Sen. Clinton made herself almost inaccessible, while Schumer devoted hours of private time and personal attention to their plight.
The author told Malzberg about the saga of one family in particular, the Cartiers, who lost a relative in the Twin Towers collapse.
"This family had tried repeatedly to get Hillary Clinton to meet with them," Brill said. "And always the staff said: 'Write up a memo. We don't meet with any families unless they write to us first and tell us what they want to meet about.'"
"They said to me, the Cartiers - and these are not, you know, people who are political - that the only time families can meet with Hillary Clinton is if it's at a press conference."
Meanwhile, said Brill, Sen. Schumer took time out on a Sunday to meet with the Cartiers - "no reporters, no cameras, no nothing."
Another scene from Brill's book is sure to rankle Sen. Clinton. Brill recounts events just two days after the attacks where Schumer and Clinton met with President Bush in order to secure $20 billion in reconstruction money for Lower Manhattan.
"As they walked into the Oval Office, Clinton told Schumer that he should do the asking, which had been his intention all along," the author reports.
After an emotional scene where the two New Yorkers commiserate with the president about the national tragedy, "Schumer turned to Bush and said he'd heard that the nation needed $20 billion to recover."
"'Well, Mr. President, New York needs $20 billion, too,' he said, ticking off some key expense items, such as the rebuilding of the subways."
Bush seemed to hesitate at first, Schumer told Brill. But after a moments pause for reflection, the president said, "New York needs $20 billion? You got it."
In the scene Hillary appears to have been little more than a spectator.
Apparently concerned that the truth about her minimal efforts performing 9/11 victim service would come out, Sen. Clinton had her staff supply Brill with bogus evidence that she had done much more.
"They gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened," Brill said.
The author said that when he checked Clinton's story out, "None of it turned out to be true."
In his comments to NewsMax, Brill dared Clinton's press aide to release him from the their confidentiality agreement.
"Someone ought to ask her press secretary, Karen Dunn, if she'll allow me to put on the record the conversations I had with Karen Dunn and other people on her staff who were who were just unbridled in the way they tried to malign Chuck Schumer."
Despite the vicious attack by Sen. Clinton's office earlier in the week, Brill said he stood by his account 100 percent.
However he did take issue with NewsMax.com's initial characterization that the former first lady "fabricated" records of meetings with 9/11 victim families.
Still, he did not dispute quotes attributed to him saying that Clinton's office "gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened." Nor did Brill challenge comments where he was quoted as alleging that Hillary's staffers provided him with "an elaborate subtext of memos and phone calls - a long, long story" that turned out to be false.
Of those revelations, Brill told NewsMax this weekend, "I'm very careful about what I say. I will stand behind what I say."
He seemed more concerned, however, with Sen. Clinton's charge that he was trying to gin up sales for his book with the new controversy.
"This is a book about a lot of people who I think are unsung American heroes - and I do not want anybody to go out and buy this book because they think it's a book about Hillary Clinton," he insisted.
Still roiled by Clinton's response, he added, "I spent a year and a half of my life writing this book and I poured my heart into it. If you know anything about my life you know that my next meal doesn't depend on whether or not I sell books."
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI NOV 09, 2001 11:43:35 ET XXXXX
Curious confusion swirls around former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's upcoming essay for TALK magazine describing exactly where she was on Terror Day in New York City.
Breaking her media silence once and for all -- Chelsea writes in great detail about her personal experience on the morning of September 11.
But, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, her account now sharply conflicts with her mother's version of Chelsea's New York adventure.
Appearing on NBC's DATELINE, Sen. Hillary Clinton told how daughter Chelsea cheated death on that fateful morning.
"She had gone on what she thought would be a great jog," Hillary Clinton explained. "She was going down to Battery Park, she was going to go around the towers. She was going to get a cup of coffee and - that's when the plane hit!"
Hillary's dramatic story about her daughter's close call with the Twin Towers became a media sensation.
"At that moment, she was not just a Senator, but a concerned parent," TODAY show's Katie Couric told viewers.
But now, in her own words, Chelsea does not mention a jog. Does not mention her plans to go to Battery Park, around the towers -- only to be stopped by a coffee break.
In fact, Chelsea writes that she was at her friend's apartment on Park Avenue South -- miles from Ground Zero -- when she learned of the attacks!
"I stared senselessly at the television," Chelsea writes.
Calls to Senator Clinton went unreturned on Friday.
(Gabrielle told the News that she wants to listen to Bush's speech tonight before she makes any further comment.)
No, by all means, keep on talking. Democrats still don't understand that when their wackos talk, all of America is listening and making conclusions...about THEM! Hollywood, wackos, keep on talking. The closer we get to the election, the more you should talk. What a stateman-like act by Hillary Clinton! I can't believe we were afraid of this light weight.
Besides Laura Bush and the Hildabeast, I believe there are five living First Ladies.
"Totally ignorant statement."
Ignorant statement from an ignorant person.
No Cindy? Well, Cindy would hog the spotlight.
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