Obama: DON'T YOU DARE fire Samantha Power

[ecstatic]

Hillary is behaving like a monster, and Samantha said that comment was off the record so the paper had no business printing it.

Don't you dare fire Samantha! The Hillary Team is staffed with losers and they would love for you to get rid of some of the brilliant minds behind your campaign. Do not let that woman bully you! Particularly after she called you "Ken Starr" and again praised McCain over you!

[MonkeyFunk]

1. She doesn't get to decide the ground rules of the interview

after the fact. The reporter was perfectly justified to report what she said.

[here_is_to_hope]

37. Gee, you sound a bit like Ken Starr....

What a crock.
Hillary is a monster, fire me...

[MonkeyFunk]

38. Just telling the truth

I know that's like garlic to you Obama vampires.

[here_is_to_hope]

42. I have lurked on DU for years...

..and remember when you were the shit. Smart, funny, I have rec'd more of your threads than I can count. But I gotta say, I am gonna miss you if you think you are telling any kind of truth.
Oh, not an Obama supporter but you knew that.
See ya around Monster.

[MonkeyFunk]

51. Why not argue the point?

Interviewees don't just get to unilaterally change the ground rules of an interview after the fact.

Sorry if I've disappointed you, but I'm telling the truth.

[Pirate Smile]

2. She should voluntarily step aside.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. That is the correct answer

but it's too late now.

CNN is reporting that congressional Clinton backers are calling for her to be fired, so even if she steps aside voluntarily, it will still look like she was fired.

[Pirate Smile]

7. That is ok if it looks that way.

[Egnever]

21. I thouight she wasnt a paid staffer?

[MonkeyFunk]

22. So what?

She's an advisor to the campaign. One can fire an unpaid advisor.

[Egnever]

44. I guess you can

does it really mean anything though?

[MonkeyFunk]

52. Well

she's resigned. So if you can resign, I can guess you can be fired. :shrug:

[ecstatic]

19. f*ck that. Hypocrillary decided to go in the gutter

Between her lies and Lieberman/Zell tendencies, she is behaving like a monster and needs to be called on it.

[SoxFan]

29. No way

Samantha Powers isn't a campaign spokesperson or a political strategist. She's a foreign policy expert, and a damn good one. She's a real asset to Obama and would make one hell of a good member of his foreign policy team in the White House.

[Pirate Smile]

53. He can put her in his Administration. Just get the controversy over now.

[K Gardner]

47. Samantha resigned.. reported at 11:40 a.m.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. I stand with Samantha

:patriot:

[Carolina]

23. me, too

Samantha Power spoke the truth about that wicked witch... who is stopping at nothing and who, along with her DLC ilk, is the monster within the party.

[SoFlaJet]

30. I totally agree with her description

of the noise she makes whenever she sees her on TV the "ERGHHHHH", I've taken to muting the television and blocking her face out with my middle finger-just like I've been doing with her fellow republicans Joe LIEberman and George Bush

[DU9598]

39. me, three

I agree. The First Amendment shall prevail. It is her opinion ... and it is accurate after the slash and burn strategy that Hillary has brought to this race.

Isn't Hillary "tough enough" to be called a name? Why is she so weak kneed?

[Eurobabe]

5. Powers apologized, MOVE THE FUCK ON.

Can't you see what we are in for if we have CLINTONS in the White House for 4-8 more years???

Yet, it's okay for Howard Wolfson to call Barack "Ken Starr?"

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

6. I'll second that motion

kicked and recommended.:kick:

[DUyellow]

8. Howard Wolfson should be fired for calling Obama Ken Star

[death to the DLC]

14. agreed,

and if Obama used Hillary tactics he would have called a presser, welled up and played victim to the comment.

[joeybee12]

27. More lies...is that all you people do these days?

[stellanoir]

9. She can't be fired because she is an unpaid advisor.

Here is a fantastic article she wrote that I stumbled across last week

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=292522

Here is her blog

http://samanthapower.blogspot.com/

[SoFlaJet]

45. thanks stellanoir

I just sent her an E-mail in support of what she said about The She-Devil

[durrrty libby]

10. Let her stay on so that she can be the beacon of fraud and hypocrisy

of The BO campaign

Now that she stepped in it, she has come under scrutiny

Results found: She is no friend of Israel and those facts will see the light of day

[leftofcool]

13. She also undermines Obama's alleged pullout of Iraq

[mmonk]

43. You're stated opinion of her position is nuts.

Her position is to withdraw correctly with also humanitarian aid for the refugees of this war and bringing neighboring countries into the picture for the right reasons as well as international efforts of reconciling differences inside Iraq.

[hedgehog]

11. It's only a smear if it isn't true.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. *

:think:

[joeybee12]

32. Oh yeah, anything you think is true is true, right...I really wish you

could stop drinking the Kool-Aid and discern the difference between something that is objective and one that is subjective.

[leftofcool]

12. Withhold judgement until you see her latest on Iraq BBC this afternoon

[marylanddem]

16. Samantha said "off the record" AFTER making the comment

Journalism 101 teaches us that's too late, Samantha, you should have
said "off the record" BEFORE making your comment.
so whatever hell on earth the Clintonistas want to make of this
it's too late. You should've known better and you fucked up.
I still love Obama, though.

[Spearman87]

17. I'm willing to take the bullet on this one. I started it

.....when I referred to Hilary as a "Vampire/Zombie" the other day. I had no idea Samantha would read that--it was only for comic relief. I hereby resign from making any direct posts concerning Hillary or Obama for the remainder of the campaign. Good luck everyone. I will see you in the science and religious forums until after November :)

[enki23]

18. he probably oughta get her fired, or at least way the hell outta sight, right quick

that sort of statement doesn't fit well with the general tone his campaign has tried to maintain this election, and runs the risk of sending mixed messages. he can hit hillary, but he can't hit her as dirty as she can hit him, because he's placed himself as the good guy in this battle. and that's fine by me, and apparently by a lot of people. just means he has to spin the messages a little differently.

[burythehatchet]

20. Thank you, I agree. Hillary is a monster, she is the enemy of liberals and the

darling of the military industrial complex. She is bad for America and should be flung off the political cliff.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. I Will Donate The Legal Max To Obama If He Calls Hillary A Monster

Team Clinton has got in their heads...She is owning them...

[K Gardner]

36. Correct. Obama needs to decide how to counter and DO IT.. or she is

going to steamroll him. Tomorrow is WY.. then MS.. and she has successfully taken over the airwaves with demands for a resignation. This isn't about Powers, its about media coverage and pity pity pity.

This is how she has been successful.. by taking control of the media and she knows how to do that. Obama needs to learn or get used to losing. Its that simple.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

41. I Am A Stone Cold Realist

If I worked for Team Clinton I would try to make as much political hay out of this as posssible as would Team Obama if the shoe was on the other foot...

This is a gift...

And if you notice Team Clinton was wise enough to use her female and African American surrogates to ask for her ouster...

Even if you think someone's a monster it's not wise to say it...

[K Gardner]

50. Well, Hillary just lost her Hay with Samantha's resignation. It is unfortunate, but

at least now HRC can't dominate the media with this faux outrage for the next few days. This is like a chess game. She just took one of Obama's and now its his turn. I hate this.

[shadowknows69]

25. So Hillary will be demanding McCain's resignation from the Senate when?

Wasn't he the one who called Chealsea ugly or something to that effect?

[DUyellow]

26. you think we will have a Bill on the senate floor about this? she is acting like a republican.

[marylanddem]

28. She thrives on being the "victim"

And Samantha opened the door to that. She should
quietly exit.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. See Post Twenty Four

However you feel about Hillary this was a gift...

[mmonk]

31. I'm here to say it will be a deal breaker for me in the fall (a forced firing of Power)

should Hillary Clinton get the nomination in the fall. I will not vote for president.

[Zueda]

34. What's wrong with being a monster?

[Tom Rinaldo]

35. I like her life's work, I hope she stays involved on Obama's Foreign Policy team

Here is what I think the Obama campaign should state: that Power offers valuable insights in the area of her expertise and she will be called on in the future as a consultant to the Obama campaign in the specific areas of her expertise only. However her comments to that reporter - outside of her areas of expertise - were indefensible, and not at all representative of the Obama campaigns feelings toward Senator Clinton, and that will not tolerated by the Obama campaign. Powers in the future will not be allowed to serve as a spokesperson for the campaign, though her expertise remains important and it will be called upon as appropriate privately in the future.

[angie_love]

40. Samantha is brilliant, he better NOT fire her. I will be very pissed.

[K Gardner]

46. She just resigned.. 11:40 a.m. EST

[DangerousRhythm]

48. Damn!

All of this fake outrage over being called a "monster"? I thought she's been through the mill and has been vetted and tested and all of that crap? I'm so damned tired of fake outrage. Enough is enough.

[NavyDavy]

49. all you attacking fellow Dems should head over to freeperville

because they enjoy what you guys are doing us real Dems will support whomever gets the nomination