Thursday March 6th, 2008 8:58 PM by BHDC Staff
Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Samantha Power
Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Samantha Power
“She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything,” Samantha Power, a key foreign policy aide to Sen. Barack Obama, said of Sen. Hillary Clinton during an interview on Thursday.
“You just look at her and think: ergh,” Power added. “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.”
Obama has several times in the past denounced such tactics as “slime politics,” but he hasn’t asked Power to resign at this point.
Political pundits and reporters are beginning to label this case as the latest example of the Obama camp’s collective inexperience.
Earlier: Obama, Rattled?
This smells of desperation on the behalf of Obama, and don’t think he doesn’t say the same thing — and he condones this kind of talk from his advisers.
It’s interesting that Ms. Power is a “key foreign policy aide” to Senator Obama. Considering that he has chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe for more than a year, without ever calling even one meeting, what has Ms. Power been doing with her time?
Funny that when the committee that Hillary Clinton is on held two meetings on Afghanistan over the last year or so, she skipped them to campaign as well. Did you know that Democrat, you piece of shit?
I laugh how Power said it was off the record, once she knew she was in trouble — but she was was promoting her book and it was established in advance that the interview was on the record.
She’s been writing her book to make a few bucks.
When has Hillary ever said Obama is trying to take poor people’s jobs away? Power should be fired.
Power is like Obama: too little experience.
Barack once said that he would fire anyone for making such personal attacks - I guess like his staff person who wanted it “off the record” - he won’t stand by his words either…
poor obama. he doesn;t even know how to fight back properly. inexperience again.
Obama should fire her immediately. You have to remember, we’re not just talking about a political candidate. In the history books, Hillary is the First Lady of the United States.
Hillary didn’t chair the committee or set the schedule, but she has been present at a number of meetings. To be a chairman and call no meetings is inexcusable. Your quickness to insult me like that says much more about you than it does about me, and I have no interest in getting in the gutter with you.
This truly is silly season. This has definitely become anti-Obama site! WoW can you be more blatant! With that said, her campaign just called him Ken Starr after telling her to release her tax returns! I guess she needs to be ‘vetted,’ more as well. It’s fine for her campaign to talk shit about him, but when they fire back it’s a sign of inexperience. She is the one that has constantly attacked him and when he takes the high road he is considered weak, but if he or his campaign fires back he is inexperienced. You Hillary lovers are truly hilarious and so is this site! Get a clue, no matter how much you kick and scream about his inexperience, Hillary still can’t win!
…Even with FL and MI in the mix!
Ms Power was head-hunted by Barack Obama to become his foreign-policy adviser in 2005 and combines this role with her job as a Time magazine columnist and professor of practice of global leadership and public policy at Harvard.
As a Time magazine journalist, you’d think she woul dhave known what she was doing.
Speaking of hypocrisy:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080306/pl_afp/canadausdemocratsvotediplomacy
LOL!
Calling her a monster is OK???
Obama must fire Ms. Power.
Weren’t you the one, fat rat, calling Obama the N word the other night?
If she is his foreign policy adviser, shouldn’t she be advising him to chair his foreign policy subcommittee properly, rather than calling Hillary names?
…and rather than selling books.
“Political pundits and reporters are beginning to label this case as the latest example of the Obama camp’s inexperience.”
What political pundits…this piece of shit website? LMAO, it’s called politics. She can pull out all dirty tricks out in her handbook and it’s called getting vetted, but when he attacks its inexperience!
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/report_obama_adviser_calls_hil.php
It’s clear that Ms. Power attacked Hillary using slime politics. Obama llamas are hypocrtical toward Hillary.
Name the pundits. I read the story and saw no reference to it. Besides do you think the Clinton Campaign doesn’t utter the N word behind closed doors.
Pat Buchanan, James Rollings, Paul Begala, Monica Crowley
Obama’s race has nothing to do with this, Steve. Be rational.
Obama’s wings have been clipped.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Now, by his own estimation, Obama is just another slimy politician.
–fat rat
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fat rat, aren’t you the turd that’s been dropping the “N” bomb about Obama while ‘pretending’ to criticize him? Obama’s got nothing on you in the “slime” department.
As much as Obama demands apologies, he should be giving one this time!
Interesting website!!!
LOS ANGELES TIMES EXPOSES BARACK OBAMA AS A FRAUD
http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=737
Source: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/obama-foreign-p.html
Obama Foreign Policy Adviser Calls Clinton a ‘Monster’
March 06, 2008 9:49 PM
Sen. Barack Obaman, D-Ill., may be reluctant to throw a punch at Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. — but at least one adviser doesn’t appear to be, at least when she thinks she’s off the record.
Samantha Power, the executive director and founder of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, is touring Europe to promote a book, and she gave an interview with The Scotsman, which quotes her saying of Clinton, “We f***** up
in Ohio. In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio’s the only place they can win. She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything.”
Power said, “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.”
The newspaper notes that “If a conversation is to be off the record, that agreement is usually thrashed out before the interview begins. Sometimes, public figures say something and then attempt to retract it by insisting it was ‘off the record’ after the event. But by then it is too late, particularly if it is in the public interest that the story be published…
“In this instance, Samantha Power was promoting her book and it was established in advance that the interview was on the record.”
In December, Obama said he had “been very clear to my campaign. I do not want to see research that is involved in trying to tear people down personally. If I find out that somebody is doing that, they will be fired. And I have been absolutely crystal clear about this, and I have been clear about this for a very long time.”
Would this count? Should Power be fired by the Obama standard?
- jpt
This story is getting more amusing. Obama’s foreign policy adviser has failed for more than a year to advise Obama to hold meetings of the foreign relations subcommittee on Europe that he chairs. So where was she when she attacked Hillary? In EUROPE, LOL!!
Great site.^^^^^^^
So what will the followers do now that the bloom is off the rose, and the flavor of the month is stale? Well, some will go back to their first love: Hannah Montana. Others will scatter and just blow with the wind. Then there are some sensible ones who will simply choose another candidate, and try to forget their crush. Even more will be glad to have escaped the dream turned nightmare.
The rest will drink the kool-aid.
Great site.^^^^^^^
So what will the followers do now that the bloom is off the rose, and the flavor of the month is stale? Well, some will go back to their first love: Hannah Montana. Others will scatter and just blow with the wind. Then there are some sensible ones who will simply choose another candidate, and try to forget their crush. Even more will be glad to have escaped the dream turned nightmare.
The rest will drink the kool-aid.
I will stick with “the monster”. Actually it’s a step up, considering she was being called “racist” in January.
Absolutely Correct! Is this the kind of people he hires to advise him, what it going to be in the white house? I was supporting Obama, now that it’s coming down to the wire, I am seeing what kind of politician he is. just like all the others. Obama is ELEGANT SPEECHES, BACK DOOR DEALING! When Clinton’s people has messed up, she has fired them. Now that’s leadership! I’m done with him!
BigHEadDC should follow up on this!
“CONTRARIAN COMMENTARY FOR FEBRUARY 20, 2007
LOS ANGELES TIMES EXPOSES BARACK OBAMA AS A FRAUD
THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN OBAMA; ANDY MARTIN SAYS, “I TOLD YOU SO”
IT’S TIME FOR BARRY OBAMA TO BE HELD TO THE STANDARDS OF A WHITE MAN; THE WHITE HOUSE IS NO PLACE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
(CHICAGO)(FEBRUARY 20, 2007) Later today we will issue a special analysis on Barack Obama’s first week as a national candidate. It won’t be a pretty sight. But before the big picture, we address a more focused picture, the larger deeper truth about Barry (Barack) Obama: the man is a complete fraud.
On August 11, 2004, while Obama was still a candidate, I held a news conference in which I stated, “The man is a complete fraud. The truth is going to surprise, and disappoint, and outrage many people who were drawn to him… In the meantime, Crown Books should stop selling Obama’s novelization of his life.” Well. (The news release can easily be located on the Internet, but here’s one link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189687/posts
Earlier this month, during the period leading up to Obama’s declaration for the presidency, we continued to question his qualifications for any office, let alone the presidency.
Monday’s Los Angeles Times exploded one of the major myths in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, that Obama had been the spearhead behind efforts to remove asbestos contamination at Altgeld Gardens on the South Side of Chicago: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-obama19feb19,1,7228837.story
In reality, Obama stole the credit from real community activists and “organizers” and appropriated their efforts as his own. Obama covered the tracks to his burglary of the truth by using fictional characters to replace the “real” people in the Altgeld episode. It is no surprise that Sweet reports today Obama was “worried about a pending potentially negative…story.”
Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, who is an unabashed Obama-lover, is also an honest journalist. She too, way back in 2004, questioned Obama’s use of fiction as fact, and stated, “It is impossible to know who is real and who is not.” (Sun-Times, 2/20/07, see http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/264478,CST-NWS-sweet20.article). Indeed, Ms. Sweet, it is not impossible at all. “Obama” is not real. Mr. Obama is a fictional creation of a very talented and very intelligent bunkum artist, Barry (Barack) Obama. From end to end, from start to finish, Barack Obama is an imaginative self-invention.
In 2004, Sweet writes today, Obama could not remember the identity of one of the key characters in his book: “I don’t remember what Smitty’s real name was. I think it was Wally.” He wrote a book about events that had taken place a few years earlier, and “forgot” the names of his key characters. So much for Obama’s respect for fact checking.
Sweet also says that Obama’s campaign staffers had to read his book over the past few days to decipher who the “real people” in his book were. They couldn’t just ask the candidate. He couldn’t tell them. And the man wants to be president? Be real.
Let’s be brutally honest: If a white man, or a white candidate (Joe Biden, are you listening?) committed a fraud of this magnitude he would be driven out of the presidential race. But the national media ignores Obama’s lies as they shamelessly pander to minority pressures. Biden’s lies in 1988 (I was there in Iowa when the story broke) are piddling compared to Obama’s prevarications. Biden was pilloried, and is still being criticized decades later, and Obama gets a free pass for his lies.
And Obama has the nerve to say he is being held to a “higher” standard as a minority candidate. Rubbish.
It is time for truth telling, as Barry O likes to say, and it is time for him to tell the truth to the American people and withdraw as a candidate. The Oval Office is no place for affirmative action. We need someone who is a real leader, not a self-imagined leader. Real experience, not imaginary experience, is essential. Joe Biden paid the price for a fictional resume in 1998. It is now long past the time when Obama should have been forced off the national political stage, and sent to Hollywood, where his brilliant fictional talents truly lie.
There is no “affirmative action” credit for the White
House. There is only one standard, for Black or White. And Obama has embarrassingly fallen short of the minimum standards for our highest office.
As I wrote in 2004, long, long ago, “The truth is going to surprise, and disappoint, and outrage many people who were drawn to him.”
Well, what about it Barry? I mean Barack.
[Is it any wonder ContrarianCommentary.com is the fastest growing and most authoritative news and information source for intelligent readers worldwide?]
I have previously identified myself in columns as the “man who brought down Obama.” He’s falling.”
Samantha Power (born 1970 in Ireland) is an American journalist, writer, and professor. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Power has been a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and is currently a senior advisor to US Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power
All this education and still she is a petty sleazy bitch!
Talk about a character assignation! You would think better would be coming for Barack Obama’s team than this woman. I agree, another sign of inexperience.
Power’s is Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, what were you expecting?! That’s the best she’s got is “You just look at her and think: ergh,” !
This is a prime example of how a lot of women treats other women who have more power than them! Pathetic!
I wonder what her name was before she changed it to “Power”, Coulter! She looks like Ann Coulter’s sister!
Women like Samantha Power bring shame to all women!
Fat Rat - get a clue - Obama is a politician just like the rest of them — but he is worst than most because he pretends not to be and that makes him not only a liar, but a hypocrite.
So, does anyone really believe Ms. Power’s characterization of Clinton wasn’t accurate? The truth of Ms. Power’s words is what has many people here squealing.
Where it’s the truth or not is not is not the point. The point here its the source in which it came from. Powers is a surrogate of your a man who is running for the highest office in the world and key foreign policy aide to Barack Obama. Power’s petty comments is not someone you want advising you, once again, this point to Barack Obama judgement!
Should any one really be surprised this is the substance of advisement that Barack Obama has guiding him?
Look at some of the comments coming from Michelle Obama, I can never imagine her as a first lady! Frankly, it’s laughable!
The thought of someone like Michelle Obama representing the United States of America, makes my stomach turn. Michelle Obama alone is enough not to vote for Barack.
Wow, this coming from the Obama campaign! Monster?? wow, amazing, I was blown away by this audacity of hope and change. I am starting to see true colors now.
I do not know why everyone is so shocked by this?! Barack Obama plays dirty politics like all the others, she does it from the back door. Hello America, check out his campaign in Chicago, where I am from.
This video about Obama says it all… Con Job!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgt6YQiZTkc&feature=bz303
Looks like Samantha Power has been hitting the crack pipe with Barack Obama
Where it’s the truth or not is not is not the point. The point here its the source in which it came from. Powers is a surrogate of your a man who is running for the highest office in the world and key foreign policy aide to Barack Obama. Power’s petty comments is not someone you want advising you, once again, this point to Barack Obama judgement!
I see. You’d rather have a “monster” be elected president than someone who has an adviser who speaks the truth, however rude that truth may be.
Face it folks. Deep down you know that Ms. Power spoke the truth. Hillary is a “monster” of deceit and pure selfish ambition and God help America and the world if she’s elected president.
That is Power’s truth as she knows it. Hillary Clinton is my Senator from NY. I do not find her to be a monster at all. I find her to be every dedicated to her work, hard working woman. And I agree with what another woman said on here, shame on any woman who speaks about another woman in that matter. It is disgusting that wowman treat other women in higher power like this. I have been in the corporate world for 20 years. I see it bois against everyday.
Of course Power’s is saying those things about Sen. Clinton, she wants Sen, Clinton out of the race, so she can have a job.
I think this is very telling of what an administration Barack Obama will have.
I would also like to say, I am a republican woman, Hillary Clinton has been the only democrat I have ever voted for. Not because she is a woman, but because she earned the respect.
The true colors of the Obama campaign come out when it gets tough! Everyone is acting like they are surprised, but most of us knew the Real Obama already!
Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up?
Barack Obama has two faces, the one he strokes his ego with in front of a crowd. The other face deviant, sneaking behind your back door dealings. There is something about this man I have severed trusted. Obama is very arrogant and self centered. He reminds me of a snake oil salesman!
It does not shock me at all that he would have someone of low as Power saying those things in public. That apple did not fall far from the tree.
Power: “You just look at her and think: ergh,” Power added. “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.”
A foreign-policy adviser for Barack Obama, this is how she acts! God help this country foreign -policy if Obama gets into office!
Will the Real Hillary Clinton please stand up? Are we going to get the emotional crier, the “fighter,” the whiner, the victim, which? This is what you guys want in a president?
Having Bill lurking the halls looking for young, naive interns to molest is enough for me not to vote for Hillary. That along with the fact that she has began playing dirty politics when she found herself getting raped state to state. And the fact that this whole NAFTA-gate is about to go MSM. Read here if you don’t know!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080306/pl_afp/canadausdemocratsvotediplomacy
She is everything I don’t want in a President.
Face it this Powell lady was telling the truth, anything to win!
I find the Power’s statement about “poor” to be offensive too.
It reminded me of what Michelle Obama said in Ohio. Where many people are unemployed. Do not become a lawyer or work on hedge fund employee (i e. like Senator Clinton or her daughter Chelsea). That completely turned me off right there to Barack Obama. I voted for Clinton.
Michelle Obama is a mother, the fact she dropped so low, as to say that about Senator Clinton child, there is nothing Michelle Obama would not do to get her husband elected. I wonder how she would responded had Senator Clinton personally attacked her children.
I would like to point out, what has Michelle Obama done with her life? Married a career politician, then benefited from her position as Barack Obama wife, to get board seats and pay outs. Her salary tripled because of being Mrs. Barack Obama. Now, that’s a great road model for your kids; sell out and paid off!
Does it shock you any more that Powers was telling the truth?
Fat rat:
Barack Obama is willing to do anything to win. Why should Hillary Clinton or John McCain not do the same. I would have no respect for anyone who did not put up a fight.
Statement from Samantha Power: These comments do not reflect my feelings about Sen. Clinton, whose leadership and public service I have long admired. I should not have made these comments and I deeply regret them. It is wrong for anyone to pursue this campaign in such negative and personal terms. I apologize to Sen. Clinton and to Sen. Obama, who has made very clear that these kinds of expressions should have no place in American politics.
Statement from Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton: Sen. Obama decries such characterizations, which have no place in this campaign.
I will be willing to bet you Samantha Power has never met Hillary Clinton. For Power’s to make that kind of personal attack is not only unprofessional and rude, but it speak more about the creditable of Powers.
You would NEVER hear Condi Rice saying such a thing.
Now apply the same standards to Hillary, who is the one running for the Presidency. The very reasons that you don’t like Michelle should be the very reasons you shouldn’t like Hillary. She is trying to ride on Bill’s record to get into the White House. Name a bill with her name on it! Name the “vast”foreign policy experience she brings to the table. She is a liar and is manipulating the voters by using fear and “experience,” of which she has none. 35 years of what! Stop lying! The electorate knows she is a sham that is why she is losing.
Barack Obama have any balls, he should of fired her and distance himself from Power. As Clinton has done with her team has cross the line, called leadership!
Fat Rat:
Hillary Clinton was in governement working, before she met Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton would not be where her is today, if not for Hillary Clinton brains. Thats for sure! So, I would say, He road on her back!
oh not obama. his campaign doesn’t do anything dirty.
sincerely,
naive obama cultists