With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story...
Friday, Nov. 9, 2001 9:38 a.m. EST
Chelsea Clinton Feared Bush Tax Cuts as Twin Towers Fell
As the World Trade Center imploded just blocks from where she stood, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's first fears included the prospect that President Bush's economic program would stymie any rebuilding effort.
"I was 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," writes the former first daughter in an up-close and personal account of the Sept. 11 disaster set to appear in the December issue of Talk magazine.
Clinton claims she was all alone in nearby Union Square and unable to reach her parents by phone as the disaster unfolded before her eyes.
"We all thought we were literally going to have fire rain down on us, that we were the next target," the former first daughter reveals.
"I truly thought I was going to die," Clinton claims she was thinking, just before she began worrying about the impact of the Bush economic program.
The disaster has rallied Chelsea's civic-minded spirit, and she uses her Talk magazine screed to call her generation to public service. "We need to step up and serve in any way we can," she urges.
Her own war effort, however, will apparently be limited to following in the footsteps of her father, who dodged the Vietnam draft from the safety of England's Oxford University.
News that the Bush tax cuts were among Ms. Clinton's earliest concerns on 9/11 follows on the heels of a speech by ex-President Clinton Wednesday that seemed to blame the terrorist attacks on American slavery and the mistreatment of the Indians.
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I guess that I read this part of the article before my old 63 year old mind went in to shutdown to prevent any more Clintoonian lies from impacting my remaining brain cells!
"Chelsea Clinton Feared Bush Tax Cuts as Twin Towers Fell"
This is the funniest and most non believeable comment from Chelsea in this News Max article, "As the World Trade Center imploded just blocks from where she stood, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's first fears included the prospect that President Bush's economic program would stymie any rebuilding effort."
Sure, you have just witnessed the implosion of the World Trade Center. You know that there was massive loss of life, and the first thing in your mind is "GW's tax cut would stymie any rebuilding effort!" Anyone who believes this, should contact me for a Great Christmas Present, I have exclusive rights on the Golden Gate Bridge for sale!
Nobody that day went downtown, except for Emergency personnel. Chelsea would have been swimming against a steady stream of shocked, frightened and possibly injured people...to find a phone???
Chelsea started on the eastside of Union Square and came back up along Madison Ave. (which starts at Union Square). Moving south from there to a point @ 12 blocks from the WTC would have taken her right through NYC's huge Chinatown. If you are in Chinatown you know it. She didn't.
She is not a New Yorker. She doesn't have the map in her head. She wrote this in the UK. Rather than slip up, she uses selective recall to avoid describing a place she has never been to. My son was at GZ. My wife WAS 12 blocks away. One brother was 6 blocks north, the other 4 blocks south. (All are ok except for the memories). I was at the WTC in '93. Each one of us could take you on a detailed re-creation of our journey. There are some things you just don't forget. Chelsea can't remember her trek south because it did not happen. She went uptown, like everyone else. That is why her uptown memories are so clear.
This is a cold attempt to create the MYTH of CHELSEA for some future use. She is doing this on the backs of those who were there.