Sen. Clinton: ‘We will keep going’ (WARNING! BARF ALERT!)

MSNBC ^ | Sept. 17

[Teacup]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to Dateline NBC's Jane Pauley about how New Yorkers are faring in the wake of the recent attack. Attack hit close to home: daughter Chelsea was jogging in the area at the time of the attack. Sept. 17— The tragedy reverberates on so many levels now — the families in which thousands of children are now motherless or fatherless or both. The extent of the disaster in dollars— $20 billion — she calls just the “first installment.” But even for a United States Senator, it began on a very, very personal level. Dateline NBC’s Jane Pauley sat down with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to talk about the tragic events of the last week.

ON TUESDAY MORNING Sen. Hillary Clintons’ first thought when the second plane hit was “terrorists.” Her next thought was “Chelsea,” who was not only in New York, but staying downtown.
“She’d gone on what she thought would be just a great jog,” says Sen. Clinton. “She was going to go down Battery Park. She was going to go around the Towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and that’s when the plane hit.”
Chelsea was close enough to hear the rumble? “She did hear it,” says Clinton. “She did.”
And to see the smoke in person, not on television? “That’s right,” she says.

“Of course Bill was in Australia and he was so upset by what he was seeing on television that I didn’t want to tell him that I couldn’t find her until I found her,” she says. “I told him, everything’s fine, don’t worry. But I couldn’t do it with the level of assurance that I needed until l could find her a couple of hours later.”

Thousands weren’t so fortunate. Last week, t he former first lady introduced a bill to speed federal aid to families of rescue workers who are dead or missing, while her successor was giving the nation its first glimpse of how she can handle a crisis.

The senator was impressed.

Clinton had said she made her proud. “She did,” says Clinton.

Why that word? “Well, because I know how difficult that position is from my own eight years of experience,” she says. “And you know when the country is under attack, when your husband may very well be a target. It’s not easy to go out there and in a composed and very gracious manner. So I was just very proud.”

The president did come under some criticism for not appearing in public as often as some think he might. What is your comment? You’ve lived in the White House through crises.

“She’d gone on what she thought would be just a great jog. She was going to go down Battery Park. She was going to go around the Towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and that’s when the plane hit.”

— SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON On Chelsea's whereabouts

“I know the tensions that exist between a president and the Secret Service because clearly their job is to protect the president at all costs,” says Clinton. “And I know there must have been some very difficult and tense moments. But what really matters is that he is safe, he is in charge, he is, you know, running our government, and that’s what everybody should be grateful for.”

Hijacking has taken a hideous turn. There are reports that the Pentagon, with the president’s approval, was ready to shoot down a commercial airliner had it in fact threatened the White House or the U.S. Capital. Would that have been with Congress’ approval?

“I for one would not have second guessed that decision,” says Clinton. “And I don’t think that the president had any choice but to make the most difficult order that anyone in that position can make, which is, you know, to say, ‘We have to do what is necessary, and that may mean the loss of innocent life.’”

Does she know Jeremy Glick’s story? “I do,” she says. Last week, ‘Dateline’ viewers met the family of the 31-year-old man who told his wife, by Airfone, about plans to ‘rush the hijackers’ of the fourth plane then bearing down on the nation’s capital.

“They took it into their own hands,” says Clinton. “In fact, I think they had a vote as, one of the accounts tells, they voted about what to do. What could be more American, and a greater rebuke to those who would try to destroy our way of life, than to have a vote on the plane about what to do, and to take action immediately?”

Clinton’s office is researching a suitable memorial for the heroes of flight 93 — perhaps even the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Meanwhile, as the work of recovery goes on, she has brought fellow members of congress to see for themselves what television does not convey.

“Our elected representatives are on the front lines of making the decisions about the war we’re waging against terrorism, and about rebuilding New York,” she says. “And there is nothing like it. We don’t want anyone to feel in a week or two or a month that the enormity of this somehow can be gotten over. We can keep going, and we will, and we can rise even higher and better than we were. But we can’t ever forget what happened on day.”

Sen. Clinton has made three visits to the scene of the devastation — which she says encompasses 16 acres. And while the search for survivors has been so disheartening, the work there is just as determined as when she saw it first, when she felt like she was standing at the gates of hell.

[FReethesheeples]

EXACTLY right @ #3!

[MAWG]

You're right, .... He's back.

[MAWG]

Put a cork in that whine! You are gone because you are a DISRUPTOR! Most of us, if not all, would like to see the Clintons publicly be-headed and, that is not an exaggeration. GET IT?

[mountaineer]

I had nothing to do with your disappearance. I suggest you seek help for both your obsessiveness and your paranoia.

[SaltLight]

I had nothing to do with your disappearance. I suggest you seek help for both your obsessiveness and your paranoia.

You, MAWG, and Teacup were the only people that I was responding to prior to my banning. As I broke none of the rules, I remain very curious as to why I was banned. With respect to my "obsessiveness", I continue to think that many posters treat Chelsea in a way that reflects very poorly on conservatism. You will have to excuse me for continuing to stand up for my principles.

[NYC GOP Chick]

That Hillary's first thought was "terrorism" speaks volumes.

I think that the witch's first thought was "How can I make this all about ME ME ME???"

[mountaineer]

You will have to excuse me for continuing to stand up for my principles.

Aim high.

[MAWG]

I have never hit the abuse button on anyone and if I ever do, which I doubt, I'll mention it first.

[swampfox98]

The senator was impressed

Senator Pork Barrel is impressed by all the money coming into New York for the WTC disaster. She and Sharpton will be planning a way to steal it.

[MAWG]

No doubt! I understand that Sharpton spends $100.00 a month on Dippity-Doo alone.

[Teacup]

did you or Teacup have anything with my banning from FreeRepublic?

Guess what? You are not that important. Has it occured to you, you are a pain, and lots of people do not want to continue reading your obessive compulsive rants about Chelsea? Do you think I am the only one who has had enough of you? I suggest you go away and find another forum to hang out in. I don't think people are interrsted in hearing what you have to say, because all you want to do is fight.

[SaltLight]

Why don't you ignore my posts?

[SaltLight]

By the way, you never did answer the question. Did you have me banned?

[MAWG]

Hey Teacup. For once , he is right. Lets ignore this bedwetting Twerp.

[Teacup]

Hey Teacup. For once , he is right. Lets ignore this bedwetting Twerp.

Sounds good to me. If only he could leaves me alone. I don't think he can. He's been warned to stay away from me before and quit harrassing me, but as you can see he continues to stalk me.

[Lazamataz]

Wow! Without MSNBC, I never would have known that Hillary Clinton was the sole hero in this entire tragedy! Good, hard-hitting, investigative journalism, MSNBC! Thank G-d we have you out there! Otherwise the media would be completely taken over by conservatives who want to recognize (wretch) firefighters, or (gag) police, or (barf) Guiliani or (Vomit) Bush in all of this.

[Teacup]

And then Laz I posted MSNBC Barf Alert Number 2 and 3. Here is number 2

Clinton: ‘Do whatever is necessary’ (Warning! Barf alert part II)BILL CLINTON DEFENDS HIS ATTEMPT TO FIND BIN LADEN

[Teacup]

Number 3

Paging the Ex-Presidents (BARF ALERT III)BUSH SHOULD HIRE CLINTON FOR HELP.