Obama 'monster' aide quits

Samantha Powers was on Democracy Now, I believe it was 3/4, and insinuated that she would accept the position of Obama's secretary of state if offered. I Want Democracy Now has it on youtube. I apologize as I first read about it here on Current but I can't find the reference to tell you who to credit. Thanks for the knowledge though. So much for the secretary of state idea.......

Op-Ed posted on Huffington Post:

"On a press call today, the Clinton camp insisted that Senator Obama had an identical voting record in the Senate as Senator Clinton. Then, they emphatically stated what an abysmal record Senator Obama had in acting to end the Iraq War.

Unfortunately, they didn't take a follow-up question on this issue, but the follow-up is obvious: So, are you admitting that Senator Clinton has a terrible voting record on Iraq?

Perhaps the answer is as obvious as the question. Of course, she does. Her campaign is simply trying to mitigate the damage done by her awful record of opposing President Bush on Iraq by claiming that Obama is just as bad a leader as she is. How comforting.

There is one difference of course. Her last name is Clinton. If she had decided to fight, everyone would have paid attention. She might have been able move public opinion (although she wouldn't need to move it much since the public was already overwhelmingly against the Iraq War), she might have been able to persuade Senate colleagues and she might have built up enough pressure to move President Bush in the right direction. But we'll never know because she didn't try any of those things. Instead, she did nothing.

She didn't capitalize on her name. She didn't capitalize on her so-called experience. She could have shown leadership. She could have made a difference. Instead, she did nothing. Never won a fight against Bush. Even worse, never even tried.

And now she has the temerity to brag about it."

The only holes I've noticed with light coming through are in Hillary Clinton's integrity. You can be tough without reverting to the far right's tactics. I see no difference with her campaign than Bush's campaign . . . and this is just for the nomination!

And......... You still haven't come up with anything. Maybe you ought too get your head outta the sand. The youth and the intelligent people are supporting Obama. Twenty years of Bush/Clinton is too much. We have to have a change or we will never get out of the Bush/Clinton mess. Maybe your job didn't get outsourced but millions of other jobs did.

Even your left wing media is starting to question his ability to do anything more than deliver eloquent speeches. The only people I still hear singing obamas praises are the extreme far left. I'd take hitlary in a heart beat over obama if the dems are guaranteed a win. The only reason he is even in the race is because he sought out an audience of sheep full socialist aspirations. The youth of our nation are the future and I'd say the future looks pretty grim if they don't wise up. Was pretty saddening to see how many showed up to the caucuses wearing what appeared to be their pajamas.

Liberal_Extinction, Care to expose what was discovered when she opened up those holes?

I love it, hitlary is doing a great job opening up so many holes in obamas armor. He's a gutless snivelling weasel and a far cry from presidential.

Too bad Power also let slip that Obama will wait until he reaches the Oval Office to decide about troop withdrawal
from Iraq. Now Clinton will harp on that one too.

Hillary really is a monster and everyone knows it! Obama is classy and has to rise above the Hillary machine. Be careful with Hillary, lots of "dead people" in Texas voted for her...also dogs named Sam! Hillary will stop at nothing...Beware Obama!!!

Wow, GREAT post Neghie, glad to see a fellow American that still believes we live in the greatest country on earth. NO country is perfect in ANY sense of the word but there are a HELLUVA lot worse places to be than America.

L_E salutes

;)

We don't need your pity foreigner. What is sad are people's inability to look at issues and the real facts and make decisions based on that rather than emotions. When I here words like 'disgust' and 'monster' and 'shame on you' and 'why is everybody picking on me', it makes me want to shake both the candidates and the people. Still, this is a democracy, no president gets in the white house without our say-so. Yes, even Bush who supposedly stole the elections. There was enough of a majority.

I'm a foreigner in this country, and think that primaries don't respond the real will of voters. It's more or less a play in which the candidates are actors/actresses, who knows what they really are. Maybe Hillary is a monster, and Barack a poker-player, who cheats. I feel pitty for American people, who have to make desicion between
them, and war-maniac John McCain.

Obama should have supported her. What she said was true. Maybe he should have said that they withdraw monster and replace it with liar, then point out the picture of him in the turban that came from her camp, and the Canadian NAFTA story they Roved him with. He should never have accepted her resignation. Why do we even consider someone that behaves like Hillary for President? Haven't we had enough of that kind of thing in the last seven years?

Just goes to show what a pathetic apologist obama is. I'm willing to bet that if we are attacked by someone while (IF) he is president that he will lead an apologetic peace envoy to the offenders country to ask what we can do prevent it again in the future and apologize for causing them to want to hurt us, he disgusts me.

Whatever happened to free speech? I guess it should be free PC speech.

She screwed up by expressing her innermost thoughts and feelings. Think I'll vote for her.

"She is a monster, too -- that is off the record -- she is stooping to anything," Power was quoted by the newspaper as saying of Clinton.

"We f***** up in Ohio," she said. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win."

Before the news that she was quitting, Power issued an apology and Obama condemned the comment through his campaign.

"Senator Obama decries such characterizations, which have no place in this campaign," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.

Power, a former aide in Obama's U.S. Senate office, is the founding executive director of the Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide."

she is a monster, though... lol

con la verdad ni ofendo, ni temo

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Now, that feels better. Could we get this thing over with by now? I mean really, I've had my fill of everything that is coming out of both these camps, Hillary more guilty of this. I'm glad it wasn't Obama himself who did the slip-up. He still holds the bar for civility.

Maybe it will all boil down to a third grade schoolyard fight, "Obama you are a poopy-face" "Clinton's a meany-stupid head!"

Too bad that I think she's right about this.

Being that it's hard to disagree with her, I think it'll simply boil over.