“I am very grateful that this difficult day has ended so well. All of my campaign staff and volunteers are safe. I want to thank them for their extraordinary courage and coolness under some very difficult pressures and dangerous situations. I also want to thank all of law enforcement. We were in touch from the moment this began with local, county, state, federal law enforcement. I am so grateful to them for their response which brought this hostage situation to such a good ending.“I also want to thank Governor Lynch who was extremely helpful in marshalling the resources of the state and working with the local law enforcement officials to make sure that all resources were available. The FBI and the Secret Service lent their expertise and help as well. I was in touch during the day with the families of those who were held hostage and I really commend their extraordinary courage under, again, very difficult circumstances. This has been a very hard day for all of us in our campaign.
“But even beyond that, every four years extraordinary young people come to places like New Hampshire because they want to change our country. They believe in our future. They work around the clock. They are so committed to their cause and I just want to commend every one of them from every campaign who really makes what is a sacrifice and a commitment. A lot of them postpone school, leave their families, move across the country and I’m so grateful for them every single day and I’m especially just relieved to have this situation end so peacefully without anyone being injured.
“We don’t have very many facts beyond, what we garnered during the day. I am on my way to New Hampshire now to thank the law enforcement officials, to see my staff – particularly those who not only were physically held hostage, but all those who supported this effort during the day to make sure we got information, that we kept families apprised, that we closely coordinated with law enforcement. And I could just not be prouder at the people who are in my campaign. And I want to thank them and I am so grateful that this day has ended well.”
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HRC, on The End To The Crisis
30 Nov 2007 09:07 pm
Comments (11)
Clinton can also take comfort in a new general election poll of Alabama that has her very competitive in this very red state: She runs with 5% of the major Republicans!
has she been kicking herself for not having been in new york city and covered in human ashes like rudy?
If this had been a protracted standoff, somebody got hurt, the perpetrator was a partisan istead of a garden variety schizophrenic, or Clinton herself had been threatened,I think that there would be a lot of symptathy and perhaps a change in the dynamics of the race. But I think this is only a positive blip for her and I think this will be long forgotten after a couple of news cycles. The fact that it happened on a Friday afternoon means that it is taking up time on slow news cycles anyway. It probably would have had more impact had it happened on a Monday.
Her handing of the matter may have limited benefit for Hillary because it simply reinforces what people already believe about her: that she is "strong" and "tough," which polling shows she has conviced many voters of already. The reason for her slide in the last few weeks have been questions about her dishonesty and her trustworthiness., not concerns about her toughness. Put another way, Obama would have benefited more from this had the exact same thing happened to him because people's concerns about him have to do with his experience and readiness. The fact that people don't have those same concerns about Hillary I think limits her potential benefit from this.
Okay, I know this is terrible. But did anyone else watching her talk to the press get this unshakable, nagging thought that the whole thing had been faked?
That sounds nuts, I know. Maybe that's what happens when a candidate is so distrusted. Everything falls under scrutiny.
Paul -- You aren't nuts. I am not sure what happened in NH but I too have doubts that will linger, especially if it appears the Clintons seek to capitalize on this event. I didn't always feel this way, but there is so much blatant manipulation of and by the media going on -- it obliges us to scrutinize everything. I am curious what this fellow wanted to discuss with Hillary. Think we'll ever really know?
Paul, you put into words the thoughts that have been going through my mind. I watched with some interest and concern for the HRC campaign workers - then when the THIRD different interview in front of the cameras took place - I began to wonder and question the validity of the event. I truly wish I personally would trust HRC, but I always think she is calculating what she says and does (for years now) to make it to the White House. She is very much like Bush #43 in this way and I have had enough of the cutsey rhetoric while the Prez stabs the country and runs right over our Constitution.
Donna, Mary, Paul - I really wish you get the opportunity to go up to the parents of those poor people who were held hostage, and accuse all of them of faking this - how would you like it if you were held hostage, you and your family terrified from life-threats, and after a safe wrap-up, you're accused of fraud? I think this "nagging thought" you have is more likely your knee-jerk inhumanity.
Donna, paul and Mary:
My father in law is crazy the way you guys are crazy: he really thinks the moon landing was faked.
Should we be nervous that your responses are faked? That donna paul and mary are fake names?That the internet is fake? that really there is no place such as NH?
Don't buy any road flares today you three, or you three might get locked up too.
Wow, that's some defensive response. Sure, the notion of Clinton wagging the dog on this one is crazy, in the sense that it would be so hard to pull off.
But to simply mention that on a blog and then have someone warn me and others not to buy road flares because we must be as crazy as the hostage taker, well... sounds like someone is starting to run scared, lol.
Michael, let me ask you this. Do you think Hillary is above doing this, if she thought she could get away with it?
Paul,
Yes I think Hillary and everyone I know is above doing this and not just because it would be hard to pull off.
The banality of what this troubled idiot did up in NH is such that some of us think there must be something else behind it and some of the blogoshere (you three) is so ready to hate a single candidate that they are ready to publicly voice thier clever supposition that this woman they/you fear or detest or distrust so very much would do it if only she could: and that is way too crazy and mean-spirited for me.
I hate guilani and distrust him and loathe geo. bush (both of them) and Nixon and reagon and yet this to me is not the crazy mean-spirited thing they do to get attention; this really looks from every angle like a travis-trickle taxidriver-like lost soul who violently fixates on the wrong thing as a desperate shout-out for attention.
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Any wagers on how many points Clinton's poll numbers jump up in NH, and even National, polls?
I say five at a minimum.
Posted by Macartney | November 30, 2007 9:43 PM