Former First Daughter Writes First Person Account of Sept. 11...(Barf Alert)

The Oregonian ^ | 11/8/01 | The Associate Press

[Lucky2]

Former first daughter writes first-person account of Sept. 11 for magazine The Associated Press 11/8/01 3:08 PM NEW YORK (AP) -- Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, who was 12 blocks away from the World Trade Center when it collapsed, has written an account of that day for Talk magazine.

"Before Sept. 11 I wouldn't have believed I had many innocences left," begins the four-page story in the December issue of the magazine. "I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. ... Despite all that, I woke up that Tuesday morning feeling good about where I was in my life and happy about where I was going."

Clinton was near Union Square, at the apartment of longtime friend Nicole Davison, when the first hijacked airliner hit Tower One. Davison, who had left for work, called Clinton and told her to stay where she was. Like many Americans that day, Clinton turned on the television and watched as the second plane hit.

"I tried to call my mother, but after I said hello to her assistant the line went dead," Clinton wrote. She ventured outside to find a working telephone, and ended up walking downtown -- toward the towers.

"I remember very little about how I got so far downtown. ... I don't know whether I was on the corner or in the middle of the block," she wrote. "I do remember standing in line at a phone somewhere and hearing a deafening rumble."

The noise Clinton heard was the collapse of Tower Two.

Clinton later found Davison and another friend, and the three spent the day working their way uptown. Clinton wrote that a "somewhat irrational medley of thoughts" was running through her head, including concerns about President Bush's tax cut.

"I worried that with the tax cut we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died," she wrote.

At one point, she stopped to pray and thank God that her mother was a senator representing New York and that the city was led by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani -- a leader Clinton wrote she "had been criticizing just the day before for some insensitivity or other."

When Clinton finally got through to her mother, who was in Washington, she burst into tears of relief. She later spoke with her father, who was in Australia.

"The next night I saw my mother, and early Thursday morning I saw my dad in Chappaqua," Clinton wrote. "It was only after I had seen them both that I finally felt secure again in my own skin."

Now studying in Oxford, England, Clinton says she is frustrated to be away from America. She says she encounters anti-American sentiments every day.

"For more than 21 years I lived with the assumption that I was safe, with a sense of security so profound I didn't even know I had it," Clinton wrote. "Today I find myself shocked into a new awareness of how much I loved the country I grew up in."

[Lucky2]

I hope this hasn't been previously posted, if so my appologies. This article is good for a laugh, especially where she prays a thanks that her mother is Senator.

[mountaineer]

. She ventured outside to find a working telephone, and ended up walking downtown -- toward the towers. "I remember very little about how I got so far downtown. ... I don't know whether I was on the corner or in the middle of the block," she wrote.

She and her Secret Service agents, that is. What happened to the jogging story her mother tried to pass off on the gullible press? What a freakin' load of tripe.

[SGCOS]

..."I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. ...

...But WACO, Ruby Ridge and Oklahoma City do not fit any of these categores, so I don't give a rats ass about those people."

[mountaineer]

Can you believe this?

[APBaer]

""I had seen people who had lost everything"

Is Ms. Pug Ugly Referring to the White House Travel Staff?

[Howlin]

So, BOTH of her parents' stories, which didn't jive, were lies.............ROFLMAO.

Hillary said she was jogging.....he said she was at a Starbucks and ran TOWARDS Union Station.

[Howlin]

At one point, she stopped to pray and thank God that her mother was a senator representing New York and that the city was led by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani -- a leader Clinton wrote she "had been criticizing just the day before for some insensitivity or other."

OMG......I am on total "Clintonoid" overload today...........both of her parents told different stories and neither one of them were THIS story..........ROFLMAO.

God save us from these people!

[stlrocket]

A GREAT Picture of Chelsea and Hillary riding Camels!

4 BEASTS

[jws3sticks]

[Howlin]

LOL......fyi.

[WilliamWallace1999]

What a load of manure! Classic "I feel your pain" Clintonisms. I wonder if this is a trial balloon for the liberals presidential hopeful in 2020.

[APBaer]

""I remember very little... I don't know"

Didn't your Mom teach you the correct verbiage:
"I do not recall.", or
"I must have left to get iced tea"

[Honestfreedom]

I see Chelsea has inherited her parents' narcissm. Everything is about them and how they feel. I think Hillary' slogan in her run for the Senate was "I'm Hillary and you're not." Bush is miles above this scum just by being humble and recognizing that the nation and the world are bigger than he is. What a little twisted bitch. All concerned about her feelings when there are thousands of people dead, and so many others widowed and orphaned.

[habs4ever]

oh bruddah!

[Lucky2]

I swear that daughter of the Satans looks like Olive Oil. This whole article made me want to puke when I first read it. What a load of sh**! Liars, all of them!!!!!!!!!!

[Arizona]

I worried that with the tax cut we wouldn't have enough money . . . . ."

Yes Chelsea, this was everyone's first thought. (Puke!)

[amordei]

Now studying in Oxford, England, Clinton says she is frustrated to be away from America. She says she encounters anti-American sentiments every day.

Especially from her father ...

[cajungirl]

Just hadda get in the Bush tax cut thing didn't she? And the anti american sentiment. This girl is pretty self centered and shallow if you ask me. Written like an eighth grader. BTW where were her secret service guys? Her "sense of security" had alot to do with americans being taxed to pay for her guards, her cars, her plane rides, her convenience.

[JulieRNR21]

Well, Chelsea's stupid scribble proves her own mother is a liar....Hitlery was all over TV telling everyone that her daughter was JOGGING near Battery Park & decided to stop for coffee just when the plane struck.....Chelsea comes across just a pathological as her parents....and she sounds like a little spoiled brat!