“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.

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