A Tribute to Samantha Power
| Just a few days ago I posted an article written about Samantha Power, chief senior policy advisor to Senator Obama. Here is an excerpt from the article, describing how she came to join Obama’s team: | |
… when his office first called her in 2005, she thought, “who is this guy?”Well Samantha Power just resigned today, thanks to Hillary Clinton.
Her 2003 book on genocide, “A Problem from Hell,” won a Pulitzer Prize, and she’s a professor at the Kennedy School at Harvard. In a recent interview I asked her why Obama called her. “His office said he had just read my book, and he wanted to talk about, literally, ‘a smart, tough, and humane foreign policy.’ No one from the US government had every called me - no mayor, no school board head.”
And why didn’t she know who he was? “I had been out of the country, in Sudan, at the time of Barack Obama’s national coming out, which was the Democratic National Convention of 2004.” When she asked around, she heard he was a great speaker. “So I went onto iTunes and downloaded his speech and got on the shuttle down to Washington and listened to the speech on the plane. And I had a cry. I couldn’t believe the speech, couldn’t believe the country he was telling me I lived in.
“And then I went and met with him. We were supposed to meet for an hour. One hour gave way to two, then three. Entering the fourth hour, I heard myself saying, ‘why don’t I quit my job at Harvard and come and intern in your office and answer the phones or do whatever you want?’ It was literally that spontaneous.”
Had she been thinking about a job in Washington? “No,” she replied. “I had never had any aspiration to go anywhere near government.”
What was it about that three-hour conversation that changed her mind? “It was the rigor of the interrogation that I was subjected to,” she said. “He really pushed me. Barack is incredibly empirical and non-ideological. He’s very aware of the tectonic plate shifts in the global order - the rise of China, the resurgence of Russia, the loss of influence by the US — and how those affect your ability to get what you want, on anything from global warming to getting out of Iraq to stopping genocide. I thought, if you’re interested in helping change the world in your small way, grandiose as that sounds, even if I was just answering his phones, I would have more impact than writing these big books that I put out ever half decade or so.”
Yesterday it came out that during an interview, Power called Hillary a “monster”,off the record, yet the Scotsmen, apparently not caring that it was off the record reported it just the same:
“We f***** up in Ohio,” she admitted. “In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio’s the only place they can win.So she called Hillary a monster? So what? Hillary is a monster! She is a ruthless and despicable person. She has used every nasty trick in the book to try to beat Obama, from exploiting racism to hypocritically accusing him of being like Karl Rove, or more recently, Ken Starr. She has demeaned his entire career of public service by saying he hasn’t accomplished anything, and he has no experience. She has repeated stated, personally, that McCain would be a better commander in chief than Obama. She has tried to disenfranchise voters in order to get an edge. She flat out mocked Obama in the most childish display I’ve ever seen from a politician, Bush included. Her campaign has been trying to paint Obama as an anti-Semite in the Jewish community. Samantha Power was discussing her in this context, the context or her willingness to stoop to the lowest of lows to win, and she said she was a monster. Hell yes she is a monster! Monster is about the nicest thing I could say about Hillary. She has no ethics, she has no integrity, she has no shame, she is disgustingly selfish, she clearly only cares about her own political ambitions, more than what is best for the Democratic Party, the country, Americans, voters, everyone, she puts them last, and her first, consistently. So what if Power called her a monster off the record? I guarantee those in the Clinton campaign, Hillary and Bill included, have said MUCH worse things about Obama in private company. In fact, in Ohio someone from the Clinton campaign was calling voters and calling Obama “Osama bin Laden”, yet nothing was said about that, the media didn’t pick up on it at all, and I’m sure no heads rolled because of it. Yet this has been news all morning, and the Hillary campaign has been clamoring for her resignation, despite the fact Powers apologized for the comments, they are calling it “personal character assassination” (which is somehow different from Hillary’s entire campaign how exactly..?).
“She is a monster, too - that is off the record - she is stooping to anything,” Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.
Ms Power said of the Clinton campaign: “Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there, too.
“You just look at her and think, ‘Ergh’. But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.”
Well now you got it Hillary, you got what you wanted. You made a brilliant woman quit her job, a job she loved, working for a person who inspired her like no one else in politics has. You made a woman leave a job she was willing to leave Harvard for, so she could try to make a difference in the world, to make our foreign policy more respectful of human rights. And why? Because you are vindictive and desperate. You are despicable and spiteful, and you will try to exploit anything to take Obama down, no matter how pathetic, and no matter who you destroy in the process. Or maybe it is because you have been attacking Obama on national security and foreign policy, so taking out his senior foreign policy advisor was something you just couldn’t pass up. You disgust me.
Samantha Power was right, you are a monster Hillary Clinton, a monster on your best day.
Update: It turns out that Hillary’s take down of Samantha Power might have been retaliation for Power’s exposing how Bill sat idle while genocide was taking place in Rwanda back in the 90s…apparently Hillary doesn’t like it when Bill is “vetted”..
