'Hostage situation' at Clinton '08 office

An armed man believed to be carrying a bomb walked into the presidential campaign office of Sen. Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire, today and took two hostages, according to police.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/...

Jeez, I never figured that Dennis Kucinich would get so desperate.

Rat Boy wrote:

Jeez, I never figured that Dennis Kucinich would get so desperate.

Nice one!!!

cnn wrote:

The campaign office for Sen. Barack Obama, also a Democratic candidate for president, was shut down as a precaution, WMUR said. The offices of former senator and Democratic candidate John Edwards remained open.

Hmm, I wonder why that is?

ChronicNecrosis wrote:
cnn wrote:

The campaign office for Sen. Barack Obama, also a Democratic candidate for president, was shut down as a precaution, WMUR said. The offices of former senator and Democratic candidate John Edwards remained open.

Hmm, I wonder why that is?

He isn't worth trying to blow up?

Pull the pin! PULL THE FRIGGIN' PIN!!!!

I find it funny the Clinton campaign asked the media to pull back and not report the exact goings-on of the police response, but Fox News is gleefully ignoring them.

Does it make me a bad person that my initial reaction upon reading the thread title was that the Clinton campaign is behind this and looking to garner sympathy? I have become so cynical. The '03 version of myself would be so disappointed.

Rat Boy wrote:
ChronicNecrosis wrote:
cnn wrote:

The campaign office for Sen. Barack Obama, also a Democratic candidate for president, was shut down as a precaution, WMUR said. The offices of former senator and Democratic candidate John Edwards remained open.

Hmm, I wonder why that is?

He isn't worth trying to blow up?

Well obviously not to this particular nut job, but I was referring to this.

Let's take it back to preschool shall we:

**singing** "Two of these things are not like the others..."

Odd. You'd think that if you were going to do this, you'd at least make sure to pick a day that Hillary was actually there. And besides, with or without her, what are you really going to ask for? I can understand just being a nutjob, but taking hostages implies that you're going to ask for something...

Morrolan wrote:

Odd. You'd think that if you were going to do this, you'd at least make sure to pick a day that Hillary was actually there. And besides, with or without her, what are you really going to ask for? I can understand just being a nutjob, but taking hostages implies that you're going to ask for something...

Wait, you're assuming that some guy with a bomb strapped to him is thinking?

Morrolan wrote:

I can understand just being a nutjob, but taking hostages implies that you're going to ask for something...

Maybe he'll ask her to pull out...Oh wait that's Bill's job never mind

haha! He is there to ask for Healthcare benefits as he cant afford them on his current job (crazy).

I will side with Kaos and think the Clinton Propaganda machine is working the strings on this one. If it is this will not be the first time Bill + Hill have done illegal things to get what they want.

This is bad hudu. Suicide bombing is for sucks.

Clearly the Election process is no longer safe from Terrorists. The only logical step to take is to declare Martial Law until the Elections are over.

MikeMac wrote:

Clearly the Election process is no longer safe from Terrorists. The only logical step to take is to declare Martial Law until the Elections are over.

I think GWB is more likely to declare Martian Law a la Sealab 2210 (or whatever the animated show on Adult Swim was called)

Man, those Clintons will do anything for publicity.

Darn Abrahamofascist suicide bombers...

Well the crazy man has released both hostages, so now it's just a stand-off.

I always wonder how they are able to get the crazy guy to release another hostage every hour. Does the negotiator just keep saying, "Come on!" and the crazy guy goes, "Ahh alright, I might as well release ONE." And this goes on until the crazy guy has no more hostages and he says, "Oh Sh*t!"

Hopefully they take him down soon.

Elliottx wrote:

Well the crazy man has released both hostages, so now it's just a stand-off.

Take note all you crazy Iraqi suicide bombers. This is how it's done.

Pharacon wrote:

...this will not be the first time Bill + Hill have done illegal things to get what they want.

Yeah but if they orchestrated the whole thing it would make more sense to have the guy armed to the teeth with guns instead of a bomb to help validate their stance on gun control.

Maybe the guy just finished watching the South Park episode with Hillary and is trying to save us all from the Snuke.

A standoff between a half-hearted suicide bomber and armed policemen?

Though I suppose letting the poor guy (my money is on some individual crackpot) blow himself up, if it is even really a bomb, is poor form.

It's rumored that he strapped on road flares, not a real bomb.

At least they weren't hot dogs.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

At least they weren't hot dogs.

Delicious an deadly in high doses.

It'll be interesting to see which candidates -both blue and red- use the hostage taker's mental status to further their political agendas. It could be "If only there was universal mental health care available to him, this could have been avoided...," or perhaps, "Here's an example of a man so fearful of Democratic control of the legislature and executive branches, he risks his own life to prevent it."

In the end he's just a nut.

Oh I just hope he isn't a Muslim... Or a gamer

A Jewish Canadian adult-contemporary music fan with a happy normal family, now that would give crime profilers nightmares.

I guess it's over after the guy surrendered to police. What I don't get is if Hillary is as "strong" as she claims in her ads, how come she didn't go into negotiate with the crazy guy and kick the crap out of him when he refused to come out? Like in that movie with Harrison Ford on Air Force One.

I'm sorry but when it comes to "Get off my plane", the Clinton legacy only extends to the first half of the phrase...

...ok, I gave it a shot.

shihonage wrote:

I'm sorry but when it comes to "Get off my plane", the Clinton legacy only extends to the first half of the phrase...

...ok, I gave it a shot.

In a political science class I took a few years after that movie was released, the professor polled the class on who we thought was the best US president. We unanimously elected Harrison Ford.