I didn't know squat about Samantha Power before she tripped. Now I'm impressed. If Obama becomes President, I'd like to see her in the cabinet. I like where her head's at.
Ex-Obama aide explains self after 'monster' mistake
By JOHN MARSHALL
P-I BOOK CRITIC
Samantha Power admits she has "aged 25 years in the last week."
Ever since she described presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as a "monster ... stooping to anything" in what she said was an "off-the-record" comment to a Scottish newspaper, the Harvard professor has been hot news on two continents.
Power, a 37-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner, had been serving as Barack Obama's top foreign policy adviser, an unpaid position, for the past 14 months. But she immediately resigned from the Democratic candidate's staff and offered profuse apologies to Clinton and Obama about her intemperate comments. Only one U.S. official ever contacted Power to discuss her genocide book, a new senator from Illinois. Her long dinner with Barack Obama persuaded her to take a leave from Harvard and work in his Washington office.
But the lesson of Sergio's life is: It's not a question of whether to engage but how to engage. |
No comments:
Post a Comment