'Hillary Clinton's a monster.'
That statement was made by Samantha Power, a top foreign policy aid for Obama and new-ish love interest of Professor Cass Sunstein. Sunstein recently accepted a position at Harvard Law, leaving behind in Chicago his ex, philosopher Martha Nussbaum. Bossman David Lat posted all the gossip about the academic love triangle here.
Power, pictured, let her words slip during an interview in London with The Scotsman yesterday. Other tasty bits from that interview:
"We f***** up in Ohio," she admitted."You just look at her [Clinton] and think, 'Ergh'.
Apparently, Ms. Power was under the impression that her remarks were "off the record," and therefore couldn't be attributed to her. The interview was actually totally on the record, and The Scotsman gives an explanation at the bottom of the link.
Update: Power has resigned from the Obama campaign, effective immediately. See here (AP article) and here (follow-up post).
'Hillary Clinton's a monster': Obama Aid Blurts out Attack in Scotsman Interview [The Scotsman]
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"and therefore couldn't be attributed to her."
corrected - "and therefore could not be attributed to her."
Contractions, while acceptable in spoken English, are disfavored in the written form.
Hot woman makes stupid remarks.. hardly news!
FIRST
Oh, no, Sammy.
I love your books. A Problem from Hell is beautiful and moving. But you ain't a politician.
Refreshing?
Er, I'd feel that way if Hillary wasn't holding the party hostage. Right now I'm just cringing.
When I read this post there was an advertisement and picture of McCain looking over at Samantha and smirking, with the caption "Elect John McCain."
More proof that WHITE people are F-ing this country up: Samantha "we f--cked up in Ohio."
she said what everyone was thinking....so?
Hillary is dirty, and everyone knows it. Obama has to get off the high road and remind everyone of what a Clinton WHITE house was like.
Sharon, are you hungover? Your grammar is truly awful. You could (should) have included Sunstein's endorsement of Obama:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cass-r-sunstein/the-obama-i-know_b_90034.html
What does Obama ice cream taste like? Orgasm!
Give me a break Powers! I'm an Obama voter, but that was bush league (no pun intended).
I know the difference between on the record and off the record! Get your sh*t together....
Only when america wakes up and realizes america is not WHITE, it is purple and needs to be run by a BLACK man. The white man has been F-ing up America for about 500 years. Time to give someone else a chance (like an indian).
Where does this picture come from?
Can you picture Sunstein pulling up on Sam for the money shot? WOW!
SCOTLAND? Both Powers (of distand relation to Austin Powers) and reporter were off their gourd, pounding scotch whiskey -- how can that been on the record? And why was Obama wonk in Scotland? Hasn't Obama done enough international damage (Cuba, Canada, Mexico, et. al.)
Obama ice cream tastes great, but leaves you feeling cold and empty. Obama ice cream is also very expensive, but subsidized for the middle class.
Nice statement from a home wrecker...
Does Samantha drive a Prius? Because she is a raving lunatic moron!
Men's Vogue
Oh, and she wants to invade Israel too!
http://sandbox.blog-city.com/speaking_truth_to_power.htm
She's a journalist herself (I've posted that she seems like more of a pop foreign affairs correspondent than a serious international relations scholar), so this misunderstanding of "on the record" is inexcusable.
Without addressing whether her comments were accurate, this is unacceptable from someone who is supposed to be a Harvard (Kennedy School, admittedly) professor and a possible Secretary of State. So much for diplomatic skills.
It's true, Hillary is a monster. Why should you be afraid to say it, no matter who you are? Obama should say it. McCain should say it. Bill Clinton should say it. Everyone should say it. Then maybe she would get the message and scurry back to hell where she came from.
The Democrats just need to have a big wrestling match to see who gets the nomination. I would bet on Hillary, she fights dirty. Maybe we should start a poll, who do you think would win in a fight between Obama and Hillary?
Odds are she ends up with a bullet in her head (a la Vince Foster)...
Who would you rather see naked?
a) Obama
b) HRC
c) McCain
Lat, quit wasting our time with your political opinions. Nobody cares. Your legal gossip is mildly interesting, but your political views are common and boring.
9:52:
I choose death.
955: THIS WAS NOT LAT YOU CLUELESS MORON. read the by-line. It was the wonderful, scrumptious, delightful Sharon Eliza ("the rain in spain, falls mostly on the plain") Nichols.
So the Scotsman had a tape recorder under his kilt?
"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."
What an asshole.
The way I see it, though, is that idiots like this are good for Clinton. It makes the Obama camp look like a bunch of effete, isolated academics. Whether or not that's true, as a Clinton supporter I don't mind that portrayal.
Nice use of "actually totally" Sharon. Trying to reinforce stereotypes?
9:52:
d.) John Edwards
Sharon - go do your torts homework. Leave the blogging to the big boys.
Politics of change.
I have the audacity to hope that this lady shuts her trap.
off the record?? what a moron. if someone or something hears/records what you say, it's on the record.
Typical woman.
Sharon, ignore these jackasses. You are doing a great job.
Ms. Power, go back under whatever strange ivory tower, anti-Israelrock you crawled out from. You have no idea what you are talking about. Ever. You don't know jack shit about Ohio. Your "foreign policy" is foolish and extremist, and at odds with pretty much every voter everywhere. Advisers like YOU are the reason so many Ohioans viewed Hillary as the moderate choice.
Truth should be a complete defense here.
Aye, 10:01
Why settle for a BLACK leader, when you can have a CHINESE leader. They're smarter, better with finances (e.g. doesn't put their life savings into rims), less likely to commit a crime, and better represents the upper middle class. Of course, absent that, I'm pretty fucking happy with a WHITE guy as president. It's worked for over 200 years and made this country better than any other shithole in the world.
This is the same sort of thing every one of us witnessed during junior high school - a jealous response by a woman to another woman in a position of power. Sad.
Somewhere, Cass's wife is having quite a chuckle.
I'll take a woman leader -- men have proven to be ineffective leaders.
"aide" not "aid"
of course Clinton is a monster, don't people realize that this isn't an election??? It's more of ... an ascension, yeah ... Obama's ascension to the throne, and anyone who doesn't get that and actually criticizes him, well, monster is too good a word.
I thought this would be the election where the brains of the democratic party finally beat the muscular part. The blue collar workers have been disappearing for so long, and Obama was able to bring the black vote to him with a few words by Bill (no other race votes as a bloc like the blacks). But fools like Power turn off the factory workers like nobody else. Power is like this all the time - she doesn't know when to keep quiet.
10:44: Oh, please. HC would eat this woman for breakfast. They're not even in the same league.
Oh, I'm educated and voted for HC. We're out there - we haven't all drank the Kool-Aid.
FYI -- I think it's a little unfair to call her a "homewrecker." Martha Nussbaum broke up Cass' marriage. And Power let kharma have a turn on Martha. The problem is that Cass drives the ladies crazy.
Oh, and I am glad someone is saying what I am thinking about HRC. That woman is awful.
So, Samantha Power will be advising Obama on foreign policy if he wins--God help us if that is the case.
No matter who wins, we are screwed. The dems will capitulate to terrorists and destroy the economy and the middle class, and if McCain wins, he'll continue to turn our country into Mexico and send more jobs abroad.
Did any of you stop to think this might have been purposefully as a campaign tactic? Those words will stick in the mind of everyone who heard them; meanwhile Obama officially denounces the statement. Brilliant and I think reflective of Obama's true nature.
Monsters, Inc.
http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/kids/images/chelsea.jpg
10:57(2) - in the interest of equal time, have you watched McCain recently? He looks like he's doing the robot.
Anyone else worried that "President" McCain is going to have a meltdown while in office and think he's back in Nam like Tom Skerritt in Up in Smoke?
MONICA LEWINSKY
IMPEACHMENT
WELFARE "REFORM"
DON'T ASK DON'T TELL
WHITEWHTER
TRAVELGATE
PAULA JONES
VINCE FOSTER
REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION
GEORGE W. BUSH
If anyone was seriously considering this snivelling, shrill little light weight for a position in the Obama adminstration, I hope that notion has been put to rest. If she was being seriously considered, it speaks volumes about the kind of maturity Obama has (lacks).
Adviser downplays Hillary Clinton's conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt
June 24, 1996
NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN) -- The woman described by Bob Woodward as a spiritual adviser to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton disputed several of Woodward's published assertions Sunday night .
Jean Houston, interviewed at the Newark Airport by CNN, said that Mrs. Clinton did indeed have imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt at Houston's suggestion.
"(But) that was maybe four minutes out of hours and hours of conversation," she said.
In his new book "The Choice," Woodward wrote that Houston, co-director of the Foundation of Mind Research, urged Mrs. Clinton to write "It Takes a Village," and assisted extensively in rewrites. Houston said that she did help edit the book, but that Mrs. Clinton "wrote that book entirely."
Houston said she made the suggestion to hold the imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt and others "to focus her busy mind on issues that surrounded the book."
"That was it," Houston said. "No spooks. No seances. Nothing. She's the least psychic person I've known, and I'm a close second. ... I don't have a psychic bone in my body."
Mrs. Clinton wrote about her imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt in her June 10 syndicated column. She said she talked to Roosevelt about the role of a first lady.
"She usually responds by telling me to buck up, or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros," Mrs. Clinton wrote.
Houston responded to questions about her comparison to the astrologer who advised Nancy Reagan, saying the difference was "about 180 degrees."
"We (Houston and Mrs. Clinton) were just friends," she said. "Our friendship was one of ladies of a certain age, with similar experience, trying to see how the world is going."
"I hope it's just a two-day wonder," Houston added, about the media attention Woodward's book has given her. "I think [journalist H.L.] Mencken said 'today's tragedies are tomorrow's jokes.' I hope I become a joke fast."
The White House also defended Mrs. Clinton on Sunday, saying the revelations, which take up only a few pages of Woodward's book, were overblown.
"To describe it as a consultation with psychics, I think, is to try to .. put it in the wrong frame," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said Sunday on CBS.
"This is not a mystic, this is not channeling," said Neel Lattimore, Mrs. Clinton's spokesman. "This is just her talking, especially at a time when she was working on her book."
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Check out the opinions of her anti-Israel and pro-palestinian positions on the "Power Line" blog.
McCain will pulverize Obama on the topic of Israel unless he fires this woman pronto. This isn't what I wanted to happen this election...
co-sign 10:10.
FYI, Power just resigned.
Seriously, get on the Power resignation. It's the sort of thing this blog should actually be covering.
Power resigned. Here's a link, though it really doesn't say much
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_el_pr/obama_adviser
she resigned:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_el_pr/obama_adviser
Obama is a uniter AND a fire-er
See my nickname -- WTF? I come to ATL to get away from the gay Democrats, wtf do you keep posting stupid shit like this?
Besides, we all know Hilldog is a fucking monster -- the worst thing we can all wish upon her is that she wins the general election, inherits a shitty country/economy, and fails MISERABLY. Then I will laugh pleasurably as she tries to cry her way to another 4 years when people become critical of her...
It's brinksmanship, my good man. You root for Hilldog because she's more likely to secure a Rep president this time around. That's why all good Republicans should vote for Hilldog in the remaining open primaries.
Cass likes the firecrackers.
hillary is a monster
she has now resigned from Obama campaign. Tis the price of truth
Isn't there any TRANNY GRANNY news that can be spun on this legal tabloid?
FACT: HRC is a monster.
FACT: Obama is a mouse.
Obama's foreign policy team wants to talk to everyone in the world, but does everyone in the world want to talk to them?
No one gunning for a position of responsibilty in a future adminstration should display such a lack of decorum and immaturity. This is just indicative of the types of liberals who are supporting Obama--the smug, holier than thou, uncivil kind.
"You just look at [Hillary] and think, 'Ergh.'"
This from the woman dating Cass Sunstein. Got news for you, Ms. Power: in case you haven't noticed (and apparently, you haven't), your current squeeze ain't exactly a looker himself. Unless, of course, you are turned on by aging, bespectacled bald dudes with enormous, er, intellects.
bad week for Obama eh?!?
At least it was a woman who said this about her, so we won't have to see Hillary cry on TV about how this is just part of the gynocide.
12:47: Now THAT was funny. Powers strikes me as the kind of woman who loves guys, but hates women.
"another 4 years when people become critical of her..."
Because right now everyone gives her a pass? Perhaps you are thinking of her opponent.
12:47: She should do a Silverman-inspired "I'm Fucking Cass Sunstein" video.
I've been so busy drinking the Kool-Aid that I haven't had time to tell you all about Change we can believe in. I don't know what that means, but I like the idea of electing Obama because he's new. OK, back to sucking Obama's cock while choking on my white guilt.
Try asking the people of Massachusetts how their own recently-elected ambassador of "Change" has fared so far in his first term as Governor. Deval Patrick, the quasi Obama protege (and outspoken supporter), is currently staking his legacy on trying to bring casinos to the state. That's change, for ya.
"You just look at [Hillary] and think, 'Ergh.'"
Completely true. I'm a lifelong democrat, but Hillary is quite possibly the most disgusting public figure I can think of. Monster is a gross understatement.
"ergh"???
"you just think, ergh"???
Glad Obama has picked the cream of the crop from his college-age female supporters to represent him! What is that you say, a grown woman used "ergh" in an interview with an international newspaper...
and we all thought Pres GWB was inarticulate....
The truth hurts like a summa-bich, don' it? Everyone is so scared of Hillary (I bet Bill smiled a little bit).
"ergh"???
"you just think, ergh"???
Yes. She is too disgusting a creature for words.
Tina Fey called Hillary a b*tch, and that was during an endorsement.
We monsters take offense at the comparison.
"Hillary is quite possibly the most disgusting public figure I can think of"
Then you must have a short memory, my friend.
It is true Hillary is a monster! and I couldnt have said it any better than Ms. Powers. She fights nasty and dirty and if she wins, I feel for us democrats in November, when she tries the same thing with Mccain and he puts her back to hell with her own rhetorics and deceptions! I hate her style and it shows how insubstantial she is without her dirty tricks. Obama will rise to the occasion, just you wait and see. He is the man for the job, not a fuming, monstrous, puffy eyed, big legged, ugly bitch like hillary.
Thanks ms powers, you made my day.
I think if Hillary wins the Democratic nomination with dirty campaign tactics, it will be a Pyrrhic victory. There are too many people like myself who not that long ago would have been happy for either Hillary or Obama to win. However, lately I am reminded of the same old same old disillusioning dirty politic game. I think Hillary may be willing to gain the Democratic nomination at any cost -- with the result that many people will just stay home in November.
Casinos are change I can believe in. Double down, bitches!
"I think if Hillary wins the Democratic nomination with dirty campaign tactics . . . "
If you think this is dirty, you have no clue what fetid, cess-borne horors await from the GOP. Attacking someone for doing business with a criminal fraud defendant, pointing out a mismanagement of foreign relations on NAFTA, and using images of children to talk about national security are all very much in-bounds in even the most civil game. Gratuituously mentioning past drug use and repeating "Hussein" are out of bounds, and both those offendors got repudiated. I see no fouls here. Play ball.
Is this the monster you want answering the phone at 3AM? See this video for a good time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QfvFCHOFi0
Hillary Clinton isn't intimating that she's not a monster; she'll never deny that. Hillary just called Barack Obama's hand and he folded. Barack might have called Hillary's bluff; so Hillary, are you in fact saying that you're not a monster? Monster in this sense: inhumanly cruel or wicked person. Barack chose to lose a staffer instead. Let Hillary gloat and strut, let her also deny that she is not in fact an inhumanly cruel or wicked person: http://theseedsof9-11.com
"with the result that many people will just stay home in November"
Those who opt out of voting cannot utter a complaint until 2012. Not voting at all is always idiotic.
10:09: Thank you. The Obamaniacs have no frigging idea what they're in for b/c he's been given essentially a free pass. At least HC has played this game before.
She could have been a hero if she would have said something like,
"It's too bad the Clintons are so desparate to hold onto power that they will do or say anything to create an imperial presidency."
add a little humor
"And, why did it take so long for Hillary to answer the red phone?"
Agreed that her knowledge regarding genocide does not make her well-versed on foreign policy. That said, he has plenty of expert advisors who don't work full-time on the campaign.