I lean towards Obama and have to say this woman would be a poor poor choice. I think she needs to go. Letting emotion slip is not what you need.

On the subject of a potential Obama administration (or Clinton II's), there is an interesting project in pure democracy just getting started on the web: automated and continuously updated 'approval style' voting on VP, cabinet, and major posts. Approval style voting means you can vote for as many of the choices as you approve. The site will remain open indefinitely for follow up research:
http://puredem.wordpress.com
Phil Jamison (privacy alias)

This experience arguement is stupid. When Bill Clinton ran against George Bush Sr. Bush had 4 years experience as President. Clearly he was the one most capable of answering the 3 am phone. However Clinton was a better choice for President. When Kerry ran against the current Bush in 2004 Bush had 4 years experience as President and was clearly the most experienced to answer the 3 am call. He just would have answerwed it wrong. If experience as President was all that mattered every incumbent would be the best choice. Somebody who knows Obama call him and give him this answer to the experience issue.

I think her comment is refreshing. We are protected under the First Admendmant. Hillary wants women to advance in the public eye. Why should we censor MS.Power for being honest. She is a firery Irish woman who speaks from her heart. I support her comments about Hillary. I think she really ment Hillary's actions and not the person.I admire Ms. Power for being a Yale and Harcard graduate and Pulitzer prize winner.She would be a great advisor.

Jeff,
You're right! I went back to the archives and you were right. It wasn't after a steady trickle of retired generals and military officers became openely critical of Rumsfeld and the war planning
before McCain spoke up like I had suggested. He truly was the FIRST, just like you said. Your honesty is a credit to the man you support, John McCain a man who doesn't make politically calculated and motivated positions. Accept my apologies.

"He also sounded like Wolfowitz's boss, Donald Rumsfeld, as far back as late 2002. Despite all his talk now about more troops, as the war drums built toward a crescendo, McCain argued that better technology meant fewer troops were going to be needed in Iraq. "Our technology, particularly air-to-ground technology, is vastly improved," McCain told CNN's Larry King on Dec. 9, 2002. "I don't think you're going to have to see the scale of numbers of troops that we saw, nor the length of the buildup, obviously, that we had back in 1991." It was pure Rumsfeld."

By June 2003, McCain was still generally in the "Mission Accomplished" camp.

It was during an August 2003 visit to Iraq that McCain seems to have realized that the Iraq tale was not unfolding as another chapter in the glorious history of the United States.

If McCain shared Shinseki's position, he didn't say so at the time. "I have no qualms about our strategic plans," he told the Hartford Courant in a March 5 article, just before the invasion. "I thought we were very successful in Afghanistan."

While he was in Iraq, insurgents used a truck bomb to blow up the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad on Aug. 19, killing U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. McCain told NPR on Aug. 29, 2003, that "we need more troops" in Iraq. "When I say more troops, we need a lot more of certain skills, such as civil affairs capability, military police. We need more linguists," McCain added.

May 12, 2004, in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, McCain was asked on "Hannity & Colmes" whether Rumsfeld could still be effective in his job. "Yes, today I do and I believe he's done a fine job," McCain responded. "He's an honorable man."

Everyone (including Hillary) that Hillary is a monster.

I think Ms. Power would be an excellent choice for Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, I'm
sure she would feel right at home with William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn. they no doubt would form an explosive trio.
( no pun intended)

Samantha Powers is a brilliant woman. I've been listening to her since I saw her on C-Span a few years back. I agree with her about Hilary. It is disgusting that the Clinton Campaign will sink to any level to smear Obama who I like. They are causing a major division that will NOT be reconciled. I'll vote for Nader long before I ever vote for that heinous bitch. And Bill, who I supported for years can go tho hell.

Why is it when the truth is told, it is a "slip up". As if the truth has no place in politics. Perhaps she should have said "a monster, as far as I know".

And what exactly is wrong with using the word "monster" to describe Hillary Clinton? Seems to me perfectly fair to speak of someone who has mathematically no possibility of beating the other candidate in pledged delegates, little possibility of gaining more popular votes than the other candidate, and certainly not winning more states than the other candidate but turns to a political scorched earth campaign. Hillary's behavior is akin to an ex-wife in a divorce case who, after the jury sides with the husband, goes out and burns down the house, kills the dog, and smashes up the Lexus. Honestly, this is what Republicans have been complaining about her for years and if she wanted to show the vast right wing conspiracy was wrong about her, this sure as heck ISN'T the way to do it.

Power is a SELLOUT on Darfur. She writes this book and lectured endlessly about how the west should unilaterally intervene in genocides. Obama agreed...until he anounced his bid for the presidency, then he said the EXACT OPPOSITTE ("genocide is not the criteria" and that "people who care about Darfur" want the African Union to take the lead). Not that Hillary Clinton's position is much better, but if people gave a whip about African, both Obama and Power would be history -- and that indeed would be ironic.

Oops. SP is brilliant, but this one slipped out. My advice would be that if you're going to use a noun like "monster" to describe Hillary you ought to use a modifying adjective, like slimy.
This is much ado about nothing. She will stay with Obama because she is that good. But she won't be invited to do a book signing at the Clinton Library

What is worse for a Democrat ?
Being called a Monster or Ken Starr...... I think the latter.

Hillary may or may not be a monster,but what we do know is that she is a fighter

She fought the Republicans and the Democrats to pass a failed health bill... failed and got knocked out.

She threw the fight against George Bush and sent our men and women over to Iraq
( now they are doing the fighting for her ) 4000 dead and counting....but that was then, this is NOW

She joined her husband in pardoning quite a few criminals..... That would technically be considered a tag team fight.

She may not be a monster, but as a fighter, I wouldn't want her on my side.

There's no chance of her going. A misreporting by a journalist of a comment she intended to be off the record, does not negate the sheer understanding and skill she brings to this role and any other role. It is a blip, nothing more.

Samantha Power is one of the best foreign policy advisors anywhere, and any candidate would be lucky to have her on their side.

The unethical British journalists who report off-the-record statements are the real story here.

Sorry, but i agree with Power. She is only telling the truth. And I don't see how this is worse than Hillary endorsing the republican nominee over her fellow democrat. I think that is over the line. And should be seen as much worse as she obviously doesn't care about the party and only about her own personal need for power.

By employed this women as his foreign-policy advisor, Obama has indicated that he has a very very good judgment, kind of the judgment he used to opppose the Iraq war.

You should reconsider twice before casting your vote for Obama.

First of all, it was an off the record comment. Secondly, she regrets saying it. People make mistakes, especially after a long flight.

This article doesn't give very much context to the remarks, which were clearly stupid.

Samantha Power was on Irish radio this morning and said that it was "an off the record stupid remark that I made in the aftermath of the sernior economics advisor to Obama, who I mentioned earlier, being dragged through the mud for comments he didn't make. And I basically lost my temper and said how could she being doing this."

Samantha Power is a smart and extremely capable person. If she is fired, or made to resign, then I think this is an example of how a drawn out battle between Clinton and Obama can hurt the Democratic Party in the long run. It would be terrible for the Democratic Party to lose such a respected and intelligent advisor as Samantha Power.

I think she is making a point though. Clinton herself has said stuff doubting Obamas religion etc. She is a monster..and she has stooped to a low not seen commonly.

still. the issue whether the clinton campaign cheated in the electronic balloting in n.h. and elsewhere needs to be addressed

I feel badly that this woman told the truth about Clinton.

As for Hillary's experience, I say, to be a "Lady-in-waiting" is no qualification for being the queen. Besides, what mother needs a daily reminder of that sordid affair? We must put that grotesque and obscene event behind us. The women who want a female president for its own sake have lost their rodder and priorities. It is a common sense to elect Obama for his promise and potential.

These are some of the definitions of Monster from Merriam-Webster:
1 b: one who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character.
2: a threatening force
5: one that is highly successful

Taken in these contexts I fail to see the harm in these comments. Now calling someone Kenneth Star like Clinton did...eh.. well, that is very straight forward and a rather bold statement coming from the Don Rumsfeld of the Democratic party.

More proof that a vote for Obama is a vote for the radical fringe left.

She's pretty hot. Maybe Hil can hook her up with Bill!

Is this the New Politics of "Hope"???
Bottomline- Barack Obama is a politician from Chicago- he is an insider of the Democratic Party. Change? There is going to be change this year because we get a new president.
We all need to get past the campaign hype of all the candidates and look at their record and their plans without getting emotional about any of the candidates.

I pray on the HOLY BIBLE Obama and his frinds dont make it to te White House.
I dont want to see Obama as presidnt and Oprah as Vice President.
Lets have a true change and pick the 1st female President.
It's 2008 time fr a true chang plus I BELIEVE Hilalry stands up for all us who get knocked down , the ones who are always put down, Hillary a TRUE figter.

So SP is flexing her intellectual muscles. . .big deal. If HRC is her definition of a monster, wonder how this "fiery Irish" woman would term Hamas - as an angry group? Her acknowledgement of her political gaffe is equal to a teenager's "oops my bad" when they hit someone with their car. . .

So she is smart, she is very well educated, she is a decorated writer, she actually knows a thing or two about issues abroad, and she called someone a monster. This word, "monster," is enough to make you two (the writer and the commentor above) look past all of her accomplishments and accolades, just because she made one small mistake? If calling Hillary a "monster" is a miss (which it is), she is still shooting around 98% from the field, and i'll take that. This article is what you, as a journalist, should be ashamed of. Throwing in the "Genocide Chick" to further support your distaste for her is so tranparent and irrelevant. Don't you see a little bit of humor in that comment? Maybe, just possibly, she calls herself that as a funny little anecdote to when someone asks her what her job is (can you imagine trying to explain to people that you write books about genocide? Perhaps her label lightens up the mood and makes it easier for the people around her ask questions and continue actually talking to her without being a total downer). However you want to describe her is your journalistic right. Above, it is fairly obvious that you don't really care for her and that is your right as an opinion columnist. On the same token, though, she was asked her opinion about Hillary and voiced exactly that. So what makes you to so different? Both are discussing the presidential race, both have fairly obvious (sarcastic) preferences in a candidate (hers being Obama, yours being anyone else), and both possibly overstepping what you should have said. Now, unlike you, though (and this should be a lesson to you), i won't hold this little smear piece of yours against you because i know people slip up from time to time. So i suppose the best thing to do would be to move on, forget about this little detour you took, and get back on track with the steroids in baseball talk.

Does she "shuck and jive?"
Is she like Ken Starr?
Is she too inexperienced?
Is she secretly a Muslim?

This media bias crap is true, but it's clearly in favor of Clinton, not Obama.

No more Clintons!!

Everything done in a campaign is calculated and exact, because there is no room for mistakes. This was an Obama gambit, so we'll see how it plays out.

I agree with Samantha, what she said was against what Obama stands for. We all make mistakes. The things Hillary is unforgettable, I think Samantha was speaking only on the low down tactis Hillary is doing. We all make mistakes.

Isn't she the person who wants us to invade Israel and Gaza and impose a solution?

Great. All we need is another foreign policy advisor who thinks Hollywood stars like Clooney are experts on foreign policy. Maybe Barbara S, can also be one of Barak's advisors.

Hillary IS a monster. Samantha Power just happens to be an honest and very capable foreign policy advisor, who probably should not have called a spade, "a spade," though I would have other choice words for madame clinton.

I continue to be amazed by the hypocrisy of Americans who complain on one hand that politicians shroud their true feeligns in vague phrases and canned speeches and then on the other hand criticize people like Ms. Powers for speaking her mind. Sure, her unguarded moment betrays a degree of amateurism unexpected of someone with her credentials, but isn't the larger issue whether our candidates -- and thus their advisors -- are people we can trust? Even if I were Hillary Clinton's biggest supporter in the world, Powers' comment would please me. This is politics, folks. Believe me, Hillary's feelings are not hurt. Neither should be yours.

For an award winning journalist, she sure retracts alot of what she says. In 2002, she gave an interview in which she states that if she were the advosor to the president, she would advise that we INVADE ISRAEL, militarily, stop suppling them with money and instead give our money to palestine, help them to defeat the hordes of Israelites and build a Palestinian state there. Now she claims that, that statement just doesn't make any sense to her at all and I don't know why I would say such a thing. She was very clear in her interview at the time! Another Israel hating, Islam supporter working for Obama, How many more have to come out of the woodwork before people realize the TRUE MONSTER is B. Hussein O. and unlike her, I don't regret saying that!!

About as damaging as Sen. John McCain calling his enemies "gooks".

HILLARY CLINTON- DESPARATE POLITICIAN- ALL POLITICIANS ARE MONSTERS!! SAMANTHA POWER ONLY EXERCISED HER RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH.

Sorry here's the link for the documented proof of the Israel hating shrew.

http://sandbox.blog-city.com/speaking_truth_to_power.htm

With all her grand personal achievements, it is sad how lacking in character she has projected in this incident. Is it just being carried-away by the campaign or latent jealousy of another woman's success?

Please?

Everyone complains about Clinton stooping to a new low level?

Have you guys been keeping an eye on Obama? It seems that all blame is on Hillary when Obama makes a mistake or correction... when he get´s caught double talking!!!

Ie: Canada-NAFTA contreversy... facts are facts... it´s all in the Memo.

Deal with it, Clinton´s did not put Obama in these positions... these are actually Obama´s own doing?

Now we see the TRUE Obama. So much for taking the high road in politics and brings all voices to the table. Clinton is our former First Lady and most of all she is a Democrat. This language has NO place in this primary election. However, in reading some of the posted commentshere, it seems that the hate factor is alive and well in the Obama campaign. He just lets others talk the hate and he acts shocked. Copying the Bush strategy will not work. I see this as a turning point in the Obama bit. Too bad. But he won't have the courage to take the swift action needed here.

For all you dilletante journalists out there, this woman's comment was NOT off the record. A specific comment or an entire interview only becomes off the record when there is mutual PRIOR agreement by the source and the journalist. You can't just shoot your mouth off and later say, "Oh, that was off the record, as clearly happened here." This is a time-honored operating procedure among several ways professional journalists deal with source material. Others include "deep background" and "not for attribution" (by name, by position, by company, etc.).

Any competent public figure or campaign spokesperson, especially someone like Samantha Power, should know that. Either she was naive or out of control. In fact, there is a real question why a foreign policy expert strayed beyond her area of expertise to make disparaging comments about the personal behavior of a political opponent.

What a shame. Bright as Ms. Power is, she has instantly transformed herself into an ongoing open sore if she remains with the Obama campaign, and it's doubtful that she could fill a positive role as an appointee in an Obama White House. For the sake of Obama's campaign, she needs to resign immediately. Otherwise, she has to be dismissed - immediately.

With friends/advisers like Rezko, Powers and that NAFTA-economic adviser, Obama doesn't need enemies. They're doing more damage to him than the opposition will.

Hey, this is the fight for the Presidency...it will be tough, it will be nasty...get used to it Obama....grow a thick skin.

Samantha Power has done excellent work speaking up for the victims of genocide in Darfur and Rwanda. That the Tribune should choose to smear her with this article, which tells us almost nothing about the work she's done, is extremely unfortunate.

The vitriol coming out of the Obama campaign is no surprise.

Obama is con man. Nothing more.

If she indeed was telling the truth and is protected by freedom of speech, then why the hell is she apologizing to Hillary and Obama???? As Hillary said, one should stand-up for one's beliefs. What does this say of SP and her expert policy advice? She is spineless, business-as-usual politician who says one thing and contradicts herself the next second. Talk about the campaign of hope and change. Face it OBAMAians, politics business as usual!!!! Worse.

Jackson, you're dumb little tactic of framing an argument around an arbitrary time period has failed.

I, nor anyone else here, never said McCain was always against Rumsfeld. Heck, even the democrats voted to confirm him based on his previous experience as SecDef back in 2000. I said he called for Rumsfeld's departure before it was popular. I reiterate, because I guess you can't read, there was no critical mass for Rumsfeld's firing in December 2004 when McCain and Schwarzkopf publicly said they have "no confidence" in him. There was none. John Kerry had just been defeated. Bush was looking forward to four more years in office and Rumsfeld had survived the cabinet reorganization. None.

So if anyone had called BO a monster.. they would be racist. HRC is a devoted public servant who deserves respect. This is outrageous. Besides, HRC WILL be the nominee.

I think that after his aide compared Hillary to a monster, Barack should apologize all monsters. And just to be safe, he should apologize to all "Munsters" too (living, dead, or "undead")

Politics are dirty because people like Power make it so. An intelligent woman like this should be able to make her point without going so low. She should not be teaching, spreading hate. This country allowed her to become a citizen, and she has the nerve to disparge Hillary. Obama is not perfect. She doesn't deserve a "peace" prize. She said what she meant to say, thinking it wouldn't come to light, and to a foreign publication. Maybe U.S. citizenship is too easy to get.

At least Susan Powers has the decency to apologize. Unlike those on the Clinton campaign - and Clinton herself - who have acted unbecoming in countless ways. As a woman, I had long respected Hillary back since her days in the White House. But after this past week's distorted attacks on Barack Obama and especially after today's press conference where she praised John McCain and herself as "experienced" candidates while belittling Obama in the same sentence, I have lost my respect for Mrs. Clinton. This is unstately, shallow and desperate. What profit does it bring a woman if she were to gain the whole world, but lose her soul?

"Why is it when the truth is told, it is a "slip up". As if the truth has no place in politics. Perhaps she should have said "a monster, as far as I know".

Posted by: William Ward | March 7, 2008 10:18 AM"

Michael Kinsley once said that a campaign mistake is a politician accidentally telling the truth.

I see no reason for all the big fuss.This is politics we ought to be use to it by now. Not one can tell the Truth when you come down to it.I don't care Which one it is they will tell you what you want to hear just to get your Vote than when they get in as President they FORGET what they PROMISED!Happens every-time.Don't any body pay attention any more?? I listen very careful to them all.I don't trust any off them,Only thing I am going to do is try to pick the best of all three of them than hang on because we are in for a RUDE AWAKENING.I will say this I will not vote for a women at this time.Now the other two I will pay very close attention too.I go beyond the words they say. People use the brain God gave you.

Margaret Morin

Nice inflammatory headline. Nice of you to remain objective.

As far as rabid Hillary supporters...she's one of the wealthiest, most priveleged, most D.C. connected (not in a good way) power mongers in Washington. What makes you think she gives a damn about you and your poor, meager lifestyle?

So naive and ...ah, what's the point.

Samantha Power probably thought that the Obama wagon
was unstoppable on its speeding race to the white house, and she probably thought that Obama might reward her with the National
Security Advisor job. But then, the Obama wagon hit the Texas and Ohio potholes,
and it might have hit Samantha Power's high flying dreams as well. And as it happens in all kiddie dream lands, the "Monster" is always the culprit.

Samantha Powers could have done better by buying a Voodoo Doll and a few pins
and have vented her rage on it rather than in public. It
gives the impression that Obama's campaign thought the
democratic nomination was already theirs, and now they are in a stage of controlled desperation in which some, as Samantha Power, just bubble and burst out. And the Antoin Rezco potholes are still ahead! Nikos Retsos, retired academic.

What did she say that wasn't true? Those are my feelings exactly. Go Obama or McCain!! If Hillary is the dem candidate I'll be voting against her and voting for McCain.

David Brooks said it best in his column today in the NYT. All Obama has going for him is "New Politics," in which calling your opponent a monster is a breach of core policy. Lose that core policy, and you lose your advantage. All that's left is a one term Senator with little experience.

I think he has to let her go and consider letting go Goolsbee as well. Both undermine his core platform. Doing so shows he is capable of being a strong Commander in Chief

Does 'SEA HAG' count as a monster? Because I see her as sort of a 'SEA HAG' but I really don't put that into the 'Monster' category.
Hmmm... I could be wrong.

Jackson, it's obvious from your post that you have an active fantasy life, so I understand that you must be broken up over the death of Gary Gygax so I'll go easy on you.

I never said McCain never supported Rumsfeld. No one did. I don't know how you've twisted it around in your head to make you think I, or anyone in the GOP, thinks that. I said he called for his firing way before it was popular. In December 2004 John Kerry had just been defeated by George W. Bush for the presidency of the United States. Bush was reorganizing his cabinet and longtime cabinet members such as Colin Powell and Tom Ridge were leaving. Bush said several times he had no intention of asking for Rumsfeld's resignation or firing him.

In December, 2004, John McCain and Norman Schwarzkopf said in public that they had "no confidence" in Rumsfeld and his ability to win the war in Iraq. Bush would not fire him until two years later. Whether you like it or not, McCain was a full two years ahead of Bush on that.

I know that you and your friends in the reactionary left never wanted Rumsfeld as SecDef in the first place, but any thinking person knows that that was never the argument in the first place.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

A monster is a monster...

Hillary Sybil Clinton suffers from a chronic case of victimitis, hopefully terminal.

Obama's advisor was 100% correct in her depiction of Hillary Clinton. Senator Clinton has run a campaign of incessant lies about her opponent, mud slinging, and the politics of personal destruction and character assassination. Her win-at-all-costs behaviour is vile and insidious and she is determined to destroy Obama in order to win the White House which she somehow thinks she is entitled to. Clinton most resembles Richard Nixon in her secretiveness, her enjoyment of tearing her opponents apart with lies, rumors and innuendos, and her belief in revenge and enemies she must destroy. Next November a new president will be elected and we are not going to solve the problems of health care, immigration, the economy, foreign relations, and the environment if we make our opponents in America our enemies as Hillary Clinton does. Republicans, and Democrats who disagree with her, are not Al Queda. Electing Clinton will ensure polarization and divisiveness in our country beyond anything we have ever seen before.

America needs to refurbish herself now. We are in trouble, and in great need--for our own economy, citizens' health and education, jobs, homes, schools, paying off the debt to China, and finding new energy sources. We have not paid the trillions yet for the Cheney/Bush folly in Iraq--That bill will be our childrens' mortgages for the next 20 years--and they will not have a house to show for it. We do not need another president with another pet project--another project that will take federal money away from states' needs, and run America further into the ground. Oprah Winfry was not looking out for American children when she built her orphanage in Africa. How patriotic. Too many kids here in crapy situations. We do not have the funds to be policemen to the world anymore. Why is the USA paying millions to the UN? Hush money only? Will BHO turn Africa into a USA money pit--into another multi-trillion dollar Iraq black hole? George Cl**ney does not determin US foreign policy--let him be elected to an office first. Also, why have non-American aides suggesting where America can spend foreign aid money? That is a no-brainer.

What Obama supporters fail to realize, yet Republicans know, is that we HRC supporters are inured to anything negative you might say about her. We have heard it all before, and for years. Yet we still think she is the best choice for this country.
I think what causes you Obama supporters so much angst is that you really know nothing of import about Obama, and are scared to death of what is out there. You will not have to wait long, it will come!
And, by the way, Andrea Mitchell, confirmed again on MSNBC this morning, that Goolsbee was the person that contacted Canadian officials about Nafta, and said the Obama campaign assured her he was "chastised"!

So when is this Obama aide going to be fired?" OH YEAH! that's right, Obama doesn't fire anyone who fouls on his team, just like Bush!! Hillary has held every last one of her aides accountable for this kind of thing, Obama has shown every time on the other hand what he would do as President, protect his cronies and never fire them and hold them accountable!! just like Bush does!! Voting for Barrack Obama is a HUGE mistake! Hillary Clinton has the integrity to lead honestly and fairly as this one of many examples like it once again proves.

"The unethical British journalists who report off-the-record statements are the real story here.

Posted by: bob | March 7, 2008 10:27 AM"

Absolutely ridiculous. The woman was giving an on the record interview and then tried to retroactively say something she said was off the record. The fact that Power is a working journalist and she tried to limit an open interview after she said something stupid is particulary loathesome to a journalist.

all the republicans on this post pretending to be obama supporters..tic tic. dems are not that nasty... you are not fooling anyone

Hillary is a fighter. The problem is when she's backed in a corner she fights dirty. I voted for her in the primary - although begrudingly - but I'm sick to death of her antics since she's started losing ground.

Still I can't help but look at Obama as the next Jimmy Carter - especially on foreign matters.

Maybe I'll vote for Obama next time - if he uses the next four years as a senator to make the changes he keeps promising.

In the meantime my vote is going to McCain.

Actually, apart from use of the word "monster", the rest of Power's comments were spot on. The Clintons are stooping to almost anything to get themselves back in the White House. And really, if Hillary is claiming 35 years of experience as the basis of her candidature, then surely it's fair game to comb through the whole of that 35 year period to find out if there's anything "unpresidential" there. Or anything presidential for that matter - her foreign policy experience is rather thin, and I wish the media would start talking about that.

"People make mistakes, especially after a long flight." If she does become a presidential advisor, I hope that they will not let her do any long distance flying.

She is an example of just another generation of arrogant ********. The more things will CHANGE, the more they will stay the same.

"Hillary's behavior is akin to an ex-wife in a divorce case who, after the jury sides with the husband, goes out and burns down the house, kills the dog, and smashes up the Lexus."

Sexism is alive and well. This election is serving to prove just how misogynistic many people in this country are. A strong woman is seen as a b*tch, a strong man is seen as powerful. Obama is just as smug as the next politician. He hasn't risen above anything, his tactics are just not under the same scrutiny.

Obama sees the math. He lost.

He doesnt have the popular support and cant get enough electoral votes. With no experience in the Senate to speak of he's looking like the weakest of the two candidates.

All his nasty supporters and groupies cant change this fact and the louder they yell TAXES or Bitcch or Whatever they look like Repugs even more.

Oh well, Ms. Power resigned.... thread is over...

She would've definitely been a monster with her emotional outburst. I'd say, a Harvard Professor has no business in politics. Let them strategize all they want, but don't be holding such an important position in office, specially when you can not measure your own words....

Why would a brillant woman call Clinton a monster, just does NOT really fit her. BTW while Bill Clinton was President, he had to try to work with a Republican senate and house. The Republicans spent the entire 8 years fighting against anything he wanted. Obama needs to select real smart people, not just because they graduate from a famous school, but have the smarts behind them. You cannot slip up when your in office. It has to be right the first time. Obama still has not been tested yet. No big decisions. Committe head but taken no action since on Afg. yet. This is a country at needs immediate attention. If he was smart he would forego this leadership and allow a full time senate member to take over the leadership role. Obama, is that a hard decison to make?

Well, well, well, looky what we have here: politics as usual?! Say one thing, do another. Lead by example? You are only as good as your advisors. Ever hear of "top down" management? Obviously the Obama team is talking out of both sides of their mouths and if we listen closely, the deafening sound of hypocrisy is obvious. Transparent government? Only what I want you to see. Give me a break! Obama you have some explaining to do on a number of issues, not the least of which is why you can't control your own staff. The "we have run out of time", or "I was busy" or "that was a boneheaded move" doesn't cut it! Not with the press and not with the American people. If you are going to run for President on the platform of “change you can believe in” or "new politics", then you’d better do it. Actions do speak louder than words.

Go Hillary! A proven, tested, vetted leader ready to go to work for us on day one!

Jeff,
It's too bad it took several thousand American bodies to be buried or pieced together and rehabilitated before Senator McCain showed "leadership" and decided that the strategy he supported was not working and he had no confidence in Rumsfeld. You can spin it all you want, he was late to the party against Rumsfeld, maybe one of the first Republicans to do it but he was LATE. This should NOT have been a partisan issue, it should have been about speaking out against a horrible strategy to protect the lives of American soldiers.

Now it is Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson's turn to resign for comparing Barack Obama to Ken Starr.

Fair is fair.

Powers should have been let go a long time ago-not for her monster statment but for her wacky political extremism.

http://sandbox.blog-city.com/speaking_truth_to_power.htm

'Unifiers' don't use words like "monster". It wd be an alien concept for them to denigrate an opponent. Gradually Senator Obama and his supporters will be unmasked for what they are: divisive and unkind seekers of personal advantage.

You would think with all those supposed credentials she would have a little more class. Or at least slam someone with something more meaningful that "monster." We don't need any more morons without class in the Whitehouse. I guess we should start judging Obama by the company he keeps.

Danny, how clairvoyant of you to be able to read what she was thinking. Either way she shows "NO CLASS."

Hey you all the next big primary is PA, and guess what the Gov of PA and the Mayor of Pittsburg are both backing Hillary. Put that in your dirty mouths and chew on it. HA!

She should refer to herself as the "humanitarian intervention" chick. Or better yet the Irish/American Bernard Kouchner.

I'm not on the Obama campaign, just an American concerned for our future, so I can call Hitlary a monster, because that is a perfect description of her. She and her campaign are the most hypocritical mass of ruthless anti-democrats I have ever seen in a campaign. Samantha Powers is a huge loss but she will keep fighting the bad people in some way. Her morality puts Hitlary to shame.
SHAME ON YOU HYPOCRITE HILLARY

I really like Samantha Power. This is a blow to Obama's campaign. I hope if he wins the Presidency that she comes back. She only stated what most Americans think already (Republicans and most Obama supporters). If Obama goes negative, then this will look like complete hypocrisy.