Posted on 12/01/2007 2:10:02 PM PST by jimbo123
ABC News' Kate Snow reports: ABC News has learned that Leeland Eisenberg -- the man accused of holding hostages at Hillary Clinton's Rochester, N.H., campaign office for six hours on Friday -- allegedly cited one of Clinton's campaign commercials when police say he entered the office and claimed to have a pipe bomb strapped to his chest.
According to sources, the campaign office intruder was complaining about insurance issues and mentioned a recent campaign ad widely seen by New Hampshire voters.
"She helped that guy, she can help me," Eisenberg allegedly told Clinton campaign staffers, referring to Joe Ward, a Clinton supporter featured in the ad. The intruder then demanded that Sen. Clinton talk with him. On the advice of law enforcement officials, the senator never did.
Eisenberg never actually had a bomb, authorities said, but had road flares strapped to his chest. The hostages could not see what was under his jacket and believed it could be a bomb, they added.
Joe Ward is a New Yorker who was also featured in TV ads when Clinton ran for Senate in 2000.
In the testimonial ad, which features somber piano music, Ward intones: "Let me tell you a little story. My son Joel had a terrible illness. He needed a bone marrow transplant that our insurance wouldn't cover and we couldn't afford. We called Sen. Clinton and asked for help. Her office called the next day, letting us know that the hospital was going to absorb the cost of the transplant. Now her opponents are saying that Hillary can't be trusted? I trusted this woman to save my son's life, and she did."
Joe Ward (2000): "Let me tell you a little story."
Lee Eisenberg (2007): "Let me tell you a little story."
JW: "My son Joel had a terrible illness. He needed a bone marrow transplant that our insurance wouldn't cover and we couldn't afford."
LE: "My wife had just told me she was leaving me. Then they wanted to put me away for hitting her and for drunk driving and other things. On top of that, the d*mn insurance company wouldn't pay for the drugs I know I deserve."
JW: "We called Sen. Clinton and asked for help."
LE: "Hillary said she wanted to fix health care, and as a life-long Democrat I was SURE she would help me. After her staff wouldn't answer my two dozen phone calls, I decided to strap on some flares and take my case right to her Rochester, NH headquarters."
JW: "Her office called the next day, letting us know that the hospital was going to absorb the cost of the transplant."
LE: "B!&$# wouldn't even come out from Washington to see me -- she said she 'understood', but then sic'ed the cops on me and they threw me into this looney bin..."
JW: "Now her opponents are saying that Hillary can't be trusted? I trusted this woman to save my son's life, and she did."
LE: "Trust her? You gotta be out of your f&%$* mind! GO KUCINICH!"
Ding ding ding,,,,,we have a winner!
The taxpayers absorbed the cost of the operation.
She will help everyone, one bomb threat at a time.
No doubt she's familiar with the routine.
Is there any other State besides NY where someone can move to and live for a couple of months and then run for the U.S. Senate and win?
Joe Ward, New York Ad
“so can any American call Hillary’s office and get free health care?”
Anyone want to bet he is another set-up by Clinton? Maybe a UNION THUG?!
This, in fact, is not the first time Ward has appeared in an ad for Clinton. He was one of four men who appeared in a 2006 ad during her Senate run called “Standing Up for New York.”
In the summer of 2004, Joel Ward, then 13, was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy, a genetic nerve disorder. Doctors said he needed a bone marrow transplant, but insurance wouldn’t cover the estimated $400,000 cost.
A family friend contacted Clinton's office and they worked with Medicaid (THANKS TAXPAYER'S!), insurance officials, the hospital, and the community so that the hospital covered all costs.
The Wards also appeared in a "Standing up for New York" ad during Clinton’s Senate reelection campaign last year.
I didn’t see anything at that site to say he is a UNION THUG. But WHY can’t he make PAYMENTS back to the HOSPITAL??
Because Hillary made arrangements with MEDICAID to get the TAXPAYER’S to PAY FOR IT!
BTW, the ‘Union Thug’ reference was me guessing and it was not on the site.
The bitch does drive me crazy too.
I was close!
I can hear it now, Hillary comes to the rescue and talks to the man who is distraught over his lack of health care. Hillary promises to fix it if she’s elected and the man gives up.
In the scene where Raymond’s mother gives him his final instructions for the assassination that will rally “a nation of television viewers to hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy,” Angela Lansbury’s resemblance to Hillary Clinton is absolutely uncanny.
Same party affiliation, too.
Hey Joe, you could have just called yourself Jose and kept saying “No Eenglesh Senor y Senora.” You would have been good to go cuz the hospital couldn’t have turned you away. /sarc
That commercial is so pathetic, I am now sick to my stomach after just reading it. I would be in full hurl mode if I had to watch it. I’m so glad there isn’t much campaigning here in Alaska.
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