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.

[Teacup]

HE HE HE, This is NOT about you or Chelsea or Bill. Get a clue!

[Teacup]

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[freedomlover]

when she felt like she was standing at the gates of hell.

Wherupon she critized the Devil for not keeping the place picked up while she was gone.

[wny]

I missed the part that said the NYPD and FDNY wouldn't stop to piss on Hilly but tripped over each other trying to shake GWB's hand.

[razorback-bert]

Just what was clinton the lesser doing in NYC?

[freedomlover]

criticized, whatever.

[Teacup]

LOL, LOL, I say, "Take a good look at the future Hillary. "

[esmith]

So, now we hear that chelsea was jogging, training for the next sporting event in the city. Every day it changes, tell the truth for once in your life, its not about me, me, me.

[Teacup]

HA! HA! They wouldn't even shake her hand, I heard.

[LillyDayStar]

That is interesting, when Chelsea and Bubba were at the NYC Victim Center last week, Chelsea told the interviewer she was 13 blocks away. How convenient to now be jogging near the area. Apple didn't fall far from that tree...

[Teacup]

Who? The Bubbaette? Jogging she says. Training maybe? HA!

[austingirl]

No more face time for Hitlery, have mercy!

[mafree]

The only decent thing Hellary said in this interview was when she expressed admiration for how Laura Bush conducted herself. Even the classless can sometimes recognize class when they see it.

[Teacup]

criticized, whatever.

No problem. I'm not the spelling police ;^)

[Teacup]

Were the secret service men jogging with her too? Lies, all lies!

[dalebert]

Bet it was more than 13 blocks away.

[Teacup]

Looks like she's getting her marching orders from Bill. Remember how he acted during the Oklahoma bombing incident? He was all over like a bad suit. Well? I think she thinks she needs to soak up all the attention she can right now and take the attention away from the true heros.

[DWSUWF]

I noticed that she was wearing 'Ole Crusty', the black pantsuit, as she toured ground zero with that village idiot 'Chuckles the Shmuck' at her side.

And I got to thinking...

'Ole Crusty' seems to make an appearance at times of crisis, both PERSONAL and (as noted above) completely unconnected to the friggin clintons PUBLIC.

Is 'Ole Crusty' a signal to her foreign handlers? Mission Accomplished. Send New Instructions. Over...

Or is 'Ole Crusty' part of a ritual? "One more thing, said Satan. You must wear the black pantsuit after I grant your wishes, and you may NOT wash it!"

There's a pattern here somewhere...

[Mark was here]

"ON TUESDAY MORNING Sen. Hillary Clintons’ first thought when the second plane hit was “terrorists.”

Now why would that be her first thought?

The terrorists Billy Boy let out of prison perhaps?

[Teacup]

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