A few months after 9/11, I sent an urgent plea via email to Senator Hillary Clinton’s Office. It seems, a local news plane had buzzed Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant for twenty minutes and the U.S. government did nothing to stop it.
Indian Point is fifty miles north of New York City. The World Trade Center has just been leveled, and a Cessna 150 is buzzing a nuclear power plant. So what was Senator Clinton’s response? “We’ll look into it.” And then nothing.
Over the months that followed, a few people managed to walk right into that power plant without being stopped and the commission that regulates nuclear power plants issued a rating saying that it had the lowest safety rating of any power plant in the country.
Today, the Clinton Campaign debuted their fear mongering ad that shows children sleeping and asks us who we would want in the White House if a phone call dealing with a national emergency came in at three in the morning.
Today, in a conference call with the press, Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign’s communications director, was asked by someone when Senator Clinton had been tested in a crisis. Chris Matthews said you could have knit a sweater in the time it took for a response which was not substantial.
Nobody can seem to find a way to back up what Clinton is claiming: That she is ready for a crisis. That is really what is behind her overuse of the phrase “day one” by her campaign. It all is designed to scare people into voting for her.
I hope it doesn’t work.
Indian Point is still up and running, and no safer than it was on 2001 right after 9/11.
I’ve missed your writing for a while – I have been reading through and catching up. As always, I share a lot of your thoughts, like I have always thought that Obama’s health care plan had more chance of passing with republicans than Hillary’s. Just take out that mandate part, and its much more likely to actually get parts passed into legislation.
I think that Hillary is grasping at straws here – playing rovian politics with a demographic of people that have come to expect this sort of attack. Yet, for quite a while now, I have said that I trusted Obama’s instincts any day over Hillary’s. I think, if he plays this right, that’s exactly the way he’ll turn this around in his favor.
Donna: Thank you for your comments.
I agree with all except your comment about Obama turning it around in his favor. I don’t think Obama has to turn anything around.
I always send copies of my “pro Obama” blogs to the Obama campaign. Then I think: They don’t need me or anything I have to say. They’re doing just fine.
Thanks again for your readership.