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