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Former First Daughter Writes First Person Account of Sept. 11...(Barf Alert)
The Oregonian ^ | 11/8/01 | The Associate Press

Posted on 11/08/2001 12:07:26 PM PST by 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."


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To: Lucky2
MY DEAR GOD! I will never again take a barf alert for granted!

I am ready to projectile vomit!

61 posted on 11/08/2001 12:32:18 PM PST by ExpatCanuck
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To: JulieRNR21
Even this version is a complete lie. Why would she leave the appartment she was staying in to go find another phone?? Why would a pay phone be any different from the phone in her friends apt?? This was a silly attempt to make the 3 stories sound similar enough for the lapdogs to swallow. Still during the worst tragedy in America's history she was able to be a partisan hack!! This fruit did not fall far from the tree.

Pray for GW and the Truth!

62 posted on 11/08/2001 12:33:09 PM PST by bray
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To: mountaineer
"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."

Please tell me that this is from The Onion. No one is this stupid.

63 posted on 11/08/2001 12:33:14 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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To: overseer5
being the smartest woman in the world obviously skips a generation.
64 posted on 11/08/2001 12:33:24 PM PST by snorkeler
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To: Utah Girl
It's now painfully obvious why they kept this Dolt-ette under wraps for so many years.
65 posted on 11/08/2001 12:33:51 PM PST by ErnBatavia
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To: looscannon
LOL.

Now studying in Oxford, England, Clinton says she is frustrated to be away from America.

She's coming home. Soon.

She says she encounters anti-American sentiments every day.

Now remember, Hillary said that the people who came out to protest her speeches during her campaign were "terrorits." This poor child could possibly believe people who are screaming things at her about her parents are anti-American.

Bless her heart.

66 posted on 11/08/2001 12:33:56 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
All this time I've been trying to imagine her jogging through lower Manhattan with a latte grande in her hand, and now - much to my chagrin - I learn that she wasn't jogging at all, but wandering around in a daze. Where am I? What was that noise? What effect will tax cuts have on New York in the aftermath of this attack? Where am I?
67 posted on 11/08/2001 12:34:24 PM PST by mountaineer
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To: Lucky2
So, we're supposed to believe that the same moron who wrote this piece also graduated from Stanford with honors? Give me a break. This article sounds like it was written by a self-centered seventh-grader. Truly pathetic.
68 posted on 11/08/2001 12:34:26 PM PST by small_l_libertarian
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To: bray
. Why would she leave the appartment she was staying in to go find another phone?? Why would a pay phone be any different from the phone in her friends apt??

And why would she head TOWARDS DOWNTOWN to find a working payphone? Anybody with any brains would head the opposite direction.

69 posted on 11/08/2001 12:34:57 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: NewHampshireDuo
I believe she was still innocent before Sept. 11th. I think I recall hearing that her threesome with her mom, Janet Reno, and the next door neighbor's dog didn't happen until Sept. 12th.
70 posted on 11/08/2001 12:35:12 PM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: Lucky2
Now, let's see.

Four pages, well that oughta be good for $250,000.

Then four full pages, she oughta get full english lit credit for a semester at Oxford.

Maybe she'll be able to graduate with all those credits by December.

71 posted on 11/08/2001 12:35:13 PM PST by aShepard
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To: bray
I believe this. I believe that Chelsea Clinton is the ONLY 22 year old in America that doesn't have a cellphone. And I believe that her Secret Service agents have NO way of communicating with the outside world if the land line goes dead.
72 posted on 11/08/2001 12:35:38 PM PST by Howlin
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To: looscannon
Genetically speaking, she may be The Big Creep's creepy kid after all. I had really pretty much settled on the unpardonable but rather lippy Webster Hubbel as her father.

A perfect example of nature vs. nurture. Oh, wait, web is a LIAR too!

73 posted on 11/08/2001 12:35:47 PM PST by mombonn
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To: mountaineer
Yeah, yeah, they said she was jogging near BATTERY PARK. I have to find that thread again. Union Square is about a mile away from the World Trade Center. What a load of crap.

Hillary made it sound like Chelsea had to dodge debris and falling bodies (and the shame of it is, many poeple actually had to do just that AND run for their lives). Shows you how well Hillary knows the layout of this town.

Well, I've heard two things from two Clintons today that have made me positively ill.. It's time for Hillary to chime in now, I guess, and make it a BARF hat trick.

74 posted on 11/08/2001 12:36:05 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: overseer5
Don't fret, Mommie's staff wrote it for her, I'm sure. The girl can't be that stupid, but we know Mommie is.
75 posted on 11/08/2001 12:36:09 PM PST by wingnuts'nbolts
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To: NewHampshireDuo
NOV 2012 Chelsea Clinton in narrow lead over incumbent Jeb Bush......
76 posted on 11/08/2001 12:36:26 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: Lucky2
Just how long will it be before it is shown that her location and other "facts" are friggin' lies? She is as big a piece of excrement as her supposed parents. Spoiled fruit does not fall far from the tree!
77 posted on 11/08/2001 12:36:39 PM PST by lawdude
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To: Lucky2
But,...but, but the earlier reports by Hillary was that Chelsea was out jogging, 12 blocks away. Not at a friend's apartment. Then it was revealved that Chelsea was out jogging around lower Manhattan.

Ahhh the Clintons... their desire to be the bride at every wedding...the corpse at every funeral.

"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.

Ahhhh...spoken like a true tax and spend elitist liberal in the making. Perhaps NYC and DC (both known for excessive business taxes) would have enough to rectify the damage if the taxing Democrats kept their hands out of the revenue till. The tax REFUND made available to NYC inhabitants would not have made much difference in this instance.

78 posted on 11/08/2001 12:36:43 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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To: cardinal4
Man, I feel the same way. At times I feel bad as a christian thinking awful things about these people but boy this trash is really hard to swallow. Thanks for saying it.
79 posted on 11/08/2001 12:36:46 PM PST by rep-always
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To: Arizona
I know. Is that the worst statement EVER? What the he!! is she talking about?
80 posted on 11/08/2001 12:36:47 PM PST by thefactor
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