#HillaryMen: Straight Talk About Hillary's Post-9/11 Recovery Work (Hillary Group)

[DeepModem Mom]

In Saturday’s Democratic debate, Hillary briefly recalled her work as New York’s junior senator in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack: "I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild; that was good for New York, that was good for the economy and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.”

Later in the debate Bernie Sanders agreed: “I applaud Secretary Clinton. She did. She's the senator from New York. She worked – and many of us supported you – in trying to rebuild that devastation.”

The Beltway pundit class did not approve of Hillary’s answer, exposing the always lurking media antipathy toward her, the constant search for a scandal. Politico chief political correspondent Glenn Thrush (a veteran reporter we know and like) went so far as to label the former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State’s words “cray cray.” We do not believe Glenn would use the same language against, for argument’s sake, President Obama.

Furthermore, as Bernie Sanders explicitly agreed, her remarks were accurate. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta noted after the debate: "When people attack her and call her quote-unquote the 'Senator from Wall Street,' they ought to remember that she was instrumental in trying to rebuild an important part of the New York economy."

Indeed they should – because in some ways helping to rebuild lower Manhattan and defending a crippled New York City economy against cuts in post-9/11 aid demanded by right wing Republicans was a defining moment in the newly-elected senator’s career. And Hillary did it without grandstanding; she simply dug in and fought for New York....

So when I see Hillary’s words misinterpreted or cynically twisted for mentioning – briefly, accurately and without grandstanding – her role in those months after 9/11, it sends my own red flag flying, because my memory of that time is still so vivid.

http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/what-republicans-said-about-hillarys-post-911-recovery-work via #HillaryMen (Peter Daou and Tom Watson)

[mcar]

1. K&R

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2. Love LOVE

#HillaryMen

They shove away the bullshit and get right to the truth

[cosmicone]

3. kick n/t

[DURHAM D]

4. Yep.

The Village Idiot Insiders are working hard on the 9/11 thingie. It just isn't working.

[brer cat]

5. K&R

[BootinUp]

6. Nice write up, I agree.

All the whiners about her answer here is nothing but whining. Seriously.

[Thinkingabout]

7. The same blind RW talking points, refuse to accept the truth, climb a tree and hang onto those

Talking points when the truth is easier to understand.

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8. Excellent! k@r

[Cha]

9. Interesting background on Peter Daou and Tom Watson.. #HillaryMen, DM M..

and the history of Hillary's work in New York after 9/11.

So what she helped rebuild Wall Street after Manhattan was devastated by suicide terrorists? Bernie gives her credit for it. But, his campaigners try to twist everything.

Later in the debate Bernie Sanders agreed: “I applaud Secretary Clinton. She did. She's the senator from New York. She worked – and many of us supported you – in trying to rebuild that devastation.”

Furthermore, as Bernie Sanders explicitly agreed, her remarks were accurate. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta noted after the debate: "When people attack her and call her quote-unquote the 'Senator from Wall Street,' they ought to remember that she was instrumental in trying to rebuild an important part of the New York economy."

http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/what-republicans-said-about-hillarys-post-911-recovery-work

[yallerdawg]

10. Senators do have a direct constituency.

Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) represented the people most impacted by those terrorist attacks.

This was not an existential threat, or an opportunity for a politically calculated exercise.

Let the armchair quarterbacks, historical revisionists, and 'bloggers' make their innuendoes, Hillary did what her dreadfully hurting constituents asked and expected her to do.