So how did the fire start?

[goclark]

I was out all day and all I heard was there were two people in the Clinton headquarters when the fire started this morning.


:cry:

[blogslut]

1. fire?

?

[goclark]

12. They were showing a picture of a "destroyed" campaign headquarters

in Indiana.

This morning they said that there were two of her workers in the building when it started.

That's all I know ~ :crazy:

[blogslut]

19. Thank you

There are links below.

Glad no one was hurt.

[goclark]

24. I was sincerely worried when I heard of the fire

I was surprised that it was not a top story longer.

So thankful no one was injured.

[2rth2pwr]

2. Oh, you mean Obama's comments? He said them at some rich white folks home

in SF on Sunday, the transcript and audio were released today.

[tekisui]

4. Rich white folks could use a little dose of truth.

[thevoiceofreason]

6. Here's the full transcript, sound-biter

This was just added to the Huffington Post article that started this mess:

OBAMA: So, it depends on where you are, but I think it's fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where people are most cynical about government. The people are mis-appre...they're misunderstanding why the demographics in our, in this contest have broken out as they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to 'white working-class don't wanna work -- don't wanna vote for the black guy.' That's...there were intimations of that in an article in the Sunday New York Times today - kind of implies that it's sort of a race thing.


Here's how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long. They feel so betrayed by government that when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn't buy it. And when it's delivered by -- it's true that when it's delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama, then that adds another layer of skepticism.

But -- so the questions you're most likely to get about me, 'Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What is the concrete thing?' What they wanna hear is -- so, we'll give you talking points about what we're proposing -- to close tax loopholes, you know, roll back the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama's gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we're gonna provide health care for every American.

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-no-s...

[2rth2pwr]

10. Bingo "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to

people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

[tekisui]

3. This is the first I've heard of it. Any more details?

[BuyingThyme]

5. Billy Joel crashed his car into the fireworks factory.

[monicaaida]

7. elite what a joke

Obama left his job as a stock broker at the age of 23 to work as a community organizer to help people who lost their steel plant jobs, then after becoming the president at the elite harvard law review he went back to the streets of chicago and took a job fighting for the civil rights of poor people


elite what a joke

[blogslut]

8. He didn't start that fire

;)

[TahitiNut]

9. CNN said it was "intentionally started" ... no more that I heard.

They said that the people got out about 20 seconds before the roof collapsed.

:shrug:

[tekisui]

13. Her campaign has been plauged with disasters,

the "bomb belt guy", another fire, the policeman that crashed and died, her delegate count.....

[Name removed]

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[tekisui]

17. What's your beef?

[Texas Hill Country]

15. WOW, for real?

[Barack_America]

18. That's not what this link says...

http://mywabashvalley.com/content/fulltext/?cid=9322

A lot of these donated campaign spaces have been sitting vacant for sometime. That the fire started in the attic area would suggest something electrical or something with the heating, I would think.

In any case, thank God those women got out in time.

[TahitiNut]

20. Well, then there's THIS story ...

Fire in Clinton Campaign Headquarters Destroys Tax Returns

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (BorowitzReport) -- A blazing fire that ravaged Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in Terre Haute, Indiana, destroyed more than just the building, campaign officials revealed today.

A spokesman for the Clinton campaign said that the 2007 tax returns of Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, went up in flames along with everything else.

In fact, according to a spokesman for the Terre Haute Fire Department, the tax returns may have been ignited first, setting off the conflagration that burned the building to the ground.

"Based on our initial investigation, it looks like gasoline was poured all over the tax returns and then set ablaze," said THFD spokesman Tracy Klujian. "Whoever did this has experience in destroying records."

While the Terre Haute police have yet to name any suspects in the inferno, an eyewitness to the fire said he saw a "person in a yellow pantsuit with black trimming" fleeing the building moments after the campaign headquarters caught on fire.

At a press conference in Pittsburgh, Mrs. Clinton said that the incineration of her tax records was "a great personal loss," adding, "I was so looking forward to sharing them with the American people."

Mrs. Clinton cut her press conference short after a protracted coughing fit, complaining of smoke inhalation.

<snip>

:evilgrin:

[Barack_America]

21. Ah well, that is interesting now, isn't it?

:evilgrin:

[cornermouse]

22. The rest of the story.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and at his award-winning humor site, BorowitzReport.com. He is the host of "Countdown to '08" at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday, May 13 at 8 PM with his special guests Calvin Trillin (The New Yorker), Susie Essman (HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Jonathan Alter (Newsweek, MSNBC). For tickets, go to 92y.org.

[cornermouse]

11. links

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/11/fire_ruins_clintons_terre_haute_office/6512/

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080411%5cACQRTT200804111056RTTRADERUSEQUITY_0590.htm&&mypage=newsheadlines&title=Clinton's%20Indiana%20Headquarters%20Destroyed%20By%20Fire

http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/17545219.html

http://mywabashvalley.com/content/fulltext/?cid=9322

[blogslut]

16. Thank you for the links

I'm glad people got out safely. I'm sorry for the losses both financial and structural.

[TexasObserver]

23. Well, most of her bad news has been self inflicted ...

so that is something to think about

[JimGinPA]

25. Probably Sparks From Banging Pots & Pans Hit Some Of The Tissues Lying Around

:evilgrin: