By now everyone knows a nut job attached what some reports say were road flares to his chest and walked into Hillary Clinton’s campaign office in Rochester, NH, taking at least four people hostage for several hours. He claimed he had a bomb attached to his chest.

He allowed a woman with a baby to leave and another was freed later, but it was a long afternoon of praying and hoping no one would be injured in this psycho’s demand for attention.

Something like this crosses party lines. The people working in that campaign office were just regular volunteers like you would see in any campaign office in any city in this country.

They were working to see to it their candidate won the NH primary. They were taking part in doing their civic duty. They are the grassroots of the Democratic party.

They had every right to expect a normal, dull, boring day of phone calls, envelope stuffing and phone answering duty.

Instead, tonight they are probably all awake from the sheer terror they felt, even though they made it out of there alive and safe.

Senator Clinton is on her way to NH to thank the police and the workers. I normally do not watch TV, but I caught a glimpse of her speaking tonight and she appeared to me to be genuinely concerned about these people.

It’s a crying shame our country has come to this. Now campaigns should hire protective services and put security locks on doors and windows to protect private citizens who are doing what they see as their civic duty.

We have gone down this road at least for the last almost eight years, with people calling outright for the president’s assassination and not respecting the office of President of the United States.

If we have sunken that low then the logical next step is to take it out on the candidates and their campaign workers.

I may not agree with the tactics employed by some campaigns or even any of the campaigns, but human life is more important than politics and must be protected at any cost.

If candidates can raise millions by going to one fund-raiser then they should be required to spend some of it on protection for the unpaid workers who are beating the bushes for them.

Thank God these women are safe.

Written by ~J~

2 Responses to “The Hostage Crisis at Clinton Campaign Office”

1. Mark Kraft says:

   December 1, 2007 at 3:05 am

   But here’s the interesting twist on the story…

   “New Hampshire State Police Col. Frederick Booth said Eisenberg had strapped highway flares to his body, held a detonator that gave the appearance he was holding an improvised explosive device and demanded to speak with Clinton. Clinton had offered to cooperate, Booth said, but police negotiators did not want her to talk with Eisenberg.”

   So, to make it clear, Hillary Clinton is willing to talk directly and unconditionally with a terrorist, but she’s not willing to do the same with Iran’s president or other foriegn leaders the US and / or Israel frowns upon.

   Considering that Howard Dean committed political suicide by going “Yaargh!”, this seems like it really should be a much bigger deal than it is.
2. Sue says:

   December 1, 2007 at 9:01 am

   Mark:

   Interesting twist, yes but I think in this instance Mrs. Clinton might have been acting out of concern for those workers and not for any political reason.

   Most of the moves the campaigns take are calculated, but this one clearly was out of the control of the candidate. Believe me, I am no Clinton fan (either one), but I think human emotion takes over at a time like was faced yesterday and the focus no longer is on ones self but those in danger.

   I know I would do whatever I could to help people in such a situation and I think the Senator was expressing the desire to do the same.