Did anyone get to listen to Obama's Senior Foreign Policy Adviser on DemocracyNow ?

[hellbound-liberal]

Her name is Samantha Power and she sounds brilliant! I really look forward to Obama's debates on foreign policy with McCain knowing that she has been advising him. Here is a link to a transcript but I suggest you listen to the show as well. Both are available at www.democracynow.org. If you haven't seen or heard this yet, I urge you to check it out!

[bicentennial_baby]

1. You should check out her books:

There's a bunch listed here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/105-8470150-6550807?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=samantha+power&x=0&y=0

:hi:

[hellbound-liberal]

9. I will definitely check out her books the next time I am at Barnes & Noble

I am feeling really good about the upcoming debates even though I am becoming a bit more apprehensive about the lengths that the Repugs will go to to stop him!:scared:

[ThatBozGuy]

16. You shoud view the videos of both her and Susan Rice

Give yourself 12 or so minutes and you ll see why Mr. Obama is leading in real change and Im sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Warning intelligent discourse no mudslinging or politicizing inside


Samantha Power, Foreign Policy Advisor to Barack Obama

Susan Rice, Senior Obama Foreign Policy Advisor

[TeamJordan23]

2. I can see her being a Sec of State during some period of the Obama administration. nm

[Adelante]

3. She is brilliant

I greatly admire her.

[leveymg]

4. She scares the crap out of the neocons

Seems she doesn't see the Middle East only through the dead eyes of Ariel Sharon. The Commentary crowd and Bill Kristol are going ape shit about her and some of Obama's other foreign policy advisors.

Someone needs to hose down their cage, and Obama's team might just be the one to do it.

Newsweek published a list of Senator Obama's foreign policy advisers that included Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert Malley. A few weeks later, the Washington Post on October 2, 2007 published a list of foreign policy advisers for all the major candidates, which list included the names of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Malley, Samantha Power and Susan Rice as advisers to Senator Obama. Subsequently, Martin Peretz -- an Obama supporter -- wrote at the end of December that he got the "shudders" when thinking about the foreign policy influence of "Zbigniew Brzezinski... Anthony Lake, Susan Rice and Robert O. Malley". http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/samantha_power_and_obamas_fore_1.html

[H2O Man]

5. Correct.

n/t

[leveymg]

13. Those around HRC and Obama have two very different visions of the world after 2008

I'm afraid the former may mislead us right back into the Persian Gulf.

Call it the the Fall-Forward Strategy.

[H2O Man]

15. Absolutely.

That is where the two candidates are very different.

[RichardRay]

6. She's an authority on genocide. Very strong credentials.

She also has a great biograpy of Sergio Vieira de Mello. I used to think that his actions in Bosnia made him someone I did not admire. After reading her book I've changed my mind.

[alteredstate]

7. She's incredible!

I heard her speak here a few weeks ago - Obama is fortunate to have her on his team!

[Window]

8. Second that.

Peace:thumbsup:

[housewolf]

10. Saw her on Charlie Rose last week

And was very impressed. She seems brilliant and articulate, I got the feeling she really knows what she's talking about. It gives me confidence in Obama knowing that he has her as an advisor.

[ihelpu2see]

18. I saw the interview as well, Brilliant, does not even begin to describe her

ability to grasp important issues.

[Whisp]

11. good to see Obama have high calibre people like Samantha

advising him.

She is brilliant and deserving of an important post in Obama's presidential team.

very very impressed with her.

[Mojambo]

12. I've heard her a couple of times. I was REALLY impressed. n/t

[Riley133]

14. Thank you for posting this information! nt

[Sweet Pea]

17. Wow...

I sure hope she isn't the one advising him to invade Pakistan!

[yurbud]

19. How does someone talk about Iraq and Venezuela without mentioning oil? When will they stop lying?

and doing the real business in the back room?

What this chick said about Chavez is crap. Any human rights problems he has pale in comparison to our good friends like the Saudis or the guy in Uzbekistan who boils people alive. When people do business on terms American corporations like, we don't give a shit about their human rights record.


I think Obama is somewhat better than Hillary, and both are likely to be less servile before business interests than McCain, but Jesus Christ, could they please cut the bullshit about Iraq and get to the point?

The oil companies want those reserves and want to be able to dictate the terms of the contracts, which is why no matter how the war goes, Republicans are not going to pull out unless there is a compliant proxy government.

The GOP and even a lot of Democrats are pushing an oil law that gives 88% of Iraq's oil income to big oil companies.

Any plan to pull out of Iraq must take into account how to pry the cold, clawing fingers of those companies from the spigot, and simultaneously pull their other hand from the leash they have on ''our'' representatives in DC.

If pols keep sidestepping this, they are likely to pursue the same agenda, just with different window dressing.