Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. waits to be introduced to a crowd of several hundred at The Pageant theatre Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007 in St. Louis.( AP Photo/Tom Gannam)
Posted on 12/02/2007 10:16:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that calling the families of the campaign staffers taken hostage at her Rochester, N.H., office last week was the most difficult part of the ordeal.
"Those were the most emotional moments, I have to tell you, calling them in the first instants to tell them what had happened," she told reporters after a campaign stop in eastern Iowa.
Clinton said that while it was a traumatic experience for her staffers, "they performed magnificently under pressure."
"They were cool, they looked out for one another," the Democratic presidential candidate said. "They kept this man occupied. As you know from the press reports, he was demanding to speak with me and kept threatening if I didn't speak with him somebody would get hurt."
The confrontation Friday started when Leeland Eisenberg walked into the campaign office and claimed he had a bomb. It ended about five hours later with no one hurt.
The 46-year-old from Somersworth, N.H., was scheduled to be arraigned Monday afternoon on four counts of kidnapping, one count of criminal threatening and one count of fraudulent use of a bomb-like device after he allegedly took three Clinton campaign staff members, a volunteer and a child hostage.
According to police, Eisenberg had road flares strapped to his chest and demanded to speak to Clinton, who was in Washington. He said he wanted assistance getting mental health services.
"I offered to talk to him," Clinton said Sunday. "I offered to go up there and meet with him. I offered to do anything to help this end peacefully." But law enforcement officials said "I absolutely could not talk to him."
Clinton, who flew to New Hampshire the same day to meet with the hostages, their families and law enforcement, said: "It was a very tense and difficult day. Thankfully, it ended well."
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. waits to be introduced to a crowd of several hundred at The Pageant theatre Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007 in St. Louis.( AP Photo/Tom Gannam)
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., laughs as she is introduced to a crowd of several hundred people at The Pageant Theatre Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007 in St. Louis. ( AP Photo/Tom Gannam)
It smacks of a setup to give the Hildebeast press and sympathy.
YUK!
The story is YOU Hillary, always. Thank you for sharing your story of pain and suffering and phone tag with a grateful nation.
If that little iddy bity crisis was traumatic, what would she have done on 9/11?
Telefon. ;-)
She’s a regular Winnie Churchill.
This statement completely disqualifies Hillary as a serious candidate. Not only is she retarded to mention that all some looney tunes has to do to get her attention is take people hostage, she acts like big bad policemen were "mean" to her. She looks impotent AND incompetent.
Oh please, wait if you become president, and then you’ll know what traumatic really is. I just hope she never gets the opportunity to find out what it’s like to have to deal with really difficult issues.
Shrillary, forever after you will be compared to Churchill, for you obviously know how to stand strong in the face of the greatest adversity known to humankind. /s
I don’t even think the bomb squad can save Hillary’s campaign from imploding.
This is a quote from the Huff Po about the suspect. Liberals are so insane that they praise a psychotic as a poster boy for some leftist cause.
Oh bother ..Hillary he didn't want your sorry arse he wanted to speak to Huma...Why on earth would anyone want YOU??
She’s a self-avowed expert on healthcare , yaknow.
Exactly. And...what would she do in the future? She can’t take pressure, she can’t answer questions, she’s NOT QUALIFIED to be President.
This HAS to be asked by someone at the next democrat debate. Edwards could score a knockout by emphasizing this.
I, I, I, me, me me.
YUCK!
Hmmm She thinks she knows it ALL too...As far as I am concerned she is a liar & a fraud. No fan of that she devil here. I fear for healthcare if she gets into office among many other things. I wish she would just go away....Too bad wishes don’t come true.
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