[Marxism] Samantha Power finally tells the truth

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign8mar08,0,4538249.story

Obama aide forced out for calling Clinton 'a monster'

By Michael Muskal and Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
9:42 AM PST, March 7, 2008
The battle for the Democratic presidential nomination took a sharp
turn away from the hunt for delegates this morning after an advisor to
Barack Obama was forced to quit the campaign for making disparaging
remarks about Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Samantha Power, a Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize winner, was
quoted in a Scottish newspaper calling Clinton "a monster" who would
do anything to win the presidency.

The campaign, which had earlier distanced itself from Power, this
morning announced that she had resigned.

"With deep regret, I am resigning from my role as an advisor to the
Obama campaign, effective today," Power stated.

"I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my
oft-stated admiration for Sen. Clinton and from the spirit, tenor, and
purpose of the Obama campaign. And I extend my deepest apologies to
Sen. Clinton, Sen. Obama, and the remarkable team I have worked with
over these long 14 months," she said.

Power, who did not return e-mails or telephone calls, made the
comments in a London interview as part of a book tour.

In the especially heated race for the nomination, where Clinton and
Obama are about 100 delegate votes apart, the kerfuffle took on a life
of its own, fueled by the Clinton campaign. In a conference call for
the media, some Clinton supporters attacked the comments and called
for Power's resignation.

Within hours, the campaign said she was gone.

Power, the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and
Public Policy, is the noted author of "A Problem from Hell": America
and the Age of Genocide (New Republic Books), which won the 2003
Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. She is a widely known and
respected journalist, having covered civil wars and humanitarian
crises across the globe.

Touring to support her latest book, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira
de Mello and the Fight to Save the World" (Penguin Press, 2008), a
biography of the U.N. envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in
2003, Power told the Scotsman that the Obama camp was disappointed
with Clinton's win in Ohio, one of three primary victories that
revived the New York senator's campaign this week.

"We f------ up in Ohio," Power said in the interview posted on the
newspaper's website. "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, trying to withdraw her remark.

"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."

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